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Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Time: 7-9pm Location: North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Please enter the lower parking deck from Courtland St. NE) We are excited to welcome Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu and Iyad Burnat—who is coming all the way from Bil'in Palestine—to Atlanta, Georgia, for the first stop on their national “Hope Beyond Apartheid” Speaking Tour. Join us for an exchange of stories from South African and Palestinian contexts about living under, and struggling through, apartheid. Iyad Burnat is a Palestinian activist who leads Bil'in's non-violent struggle in the West Bank. He is the head of the Bil'in Popular Committee against the Wall, which has led weekly demonstrations since 2005 against the Israeli West Bank barrier. The film "5 Broken Cameras", made by his brother Emad Burnat, shares about the struggle of Palestinians in Bil'in. It won a Sundance Film Festival documentary award and Emad is the first Palestinian nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu is the third child Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu. She was born in South Africa and has had the opportunity to live in many communities and countries. She was educated in Swaziland, the US, and England, and has divided her adult life between South Africa and the US. Growing up the ‘daughter of …’ has offered Naomi Tutu many opportunities and challenges in her life. Rev. Tutu has taught at the University of Hartford, University of Connecticut, and Brevard College in North Carolina. She served as Program Coordinator for the historic Race Relations Institute at Fisk University and was a part of the Institute’s delegation to the World Conference Against Racism in Durban.
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