Duaybis

Cedar Duaybis

Cedar Duaybis spoke on November 9 about “Being a Palestinian Christian in Palestine and Israel.”  Born in Haifa in 1935, she fled to Nazareth in 1948, where she grew up as an “internal refugee” within Israel. She is a founding member of Sabeel (Arabic: “The Way”), an ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, and a member of its executive committee. She is a retired school teacher who spent most of her life supporting her husband’s ministry as a clergyman of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Jerusalem inside Israel and in the Palestinian territories. She has co-authored several books with Naim Ateek.