Kathy Wazana is a Casablanca-born, Toronto-based documentary filmmaker, who identifies as an Arab Jew and whose\u00a0current work focuses on Jewish-Arab-Muslim relations in Morocco and in Israel-Palestine.<\/p>\n
A passionate traveler and learner, a peace activist and an advocate for equity and minority rights, she has worked in politics and the labour movement, in educational television, publishing and advertising, in government, public and media relations, and in international development, in France and in Canada.<\/p>\n
Kathy has spent many months in Palestine, observing, documenting and participating in international solidarity initiatives, including with the Tuffah Educational Development Center in Gaza and the International Women’s Peace Service in Salfit province. She is the founder\u00a0of the Playgrounds for Peace project, Cooks for Peace, the Toronto Just Peace Seder and Community\u00a0Mimouna, and co-author of\u00a0Speaking Through Walls \u2013 Women Building Peace in Israel-Palestine.\u00a0The rupture provoked by the Partition of Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel is the subject of her feature documentary\u00a0They Were Promised the Sea<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0Her short videos\u00a0Kan Ya Makan<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and\u00a0Build a Wall<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>document the early construction of the Apartheid wall and moments in Israel’s ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathy Wazana is a Casablanca-born, Toronto-based documentary filmmaker, who identifies as an Arab Jew and whose\u00a0current work focuses on Jewish-Arab-Muslim relations in Morocco and in Israel-Palestine. A passionate traveler and learner, a peace activist and an advocate for equity and minority rights, she has worked in politics and the labour movement, in educational television, publishing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[212],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-participants","tag-al-awda-the-return"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"no","enabled_languages":["en","ar","es","it","fr","no","tr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ar":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"no":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"tr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/B4566D4D-051C-473D-ACAD-DA0ED20681B1.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QIOk-UY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/no\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}