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Dr. Lamma Mansour and Dr. Yousef Khoury are respected Palestinian Christian theologians bringing firsthand perspectives on faith, justice, and costly peace-making to churches across New Zealand. Yousef is the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, a board member of Kairos Palestine and was raised in Gaza—where his family remains. Lamma is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, writer and social policy scholar from Nazareth. Through their teaching, research, and lived experience they offer a thoughtful and deeply personal insight to the realities in the Holy Land today, and what courageous peace-making can look like from here in the Pacific.
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Christchurch | Sun 19 July | 7pm, Christchurch Transitional Cathedral
Christchurch | Mon 20 July | 7pm, Oxford Terrace Baptist Church
Dunedin | Tue 21 July | 7pm, All Saints Anglican Church
Nelson | Tue 21 July | 7pm, Victory Community Centre
Wellington | Wed 22 July | 7pm, Lifepoint Church
Auckland | Thu 23 July | 7pm, Holy Trinity Cathedral
Hamilton | Sat 25 July | 7pm, Te Rautini Church
Auckland | Sunday 26 July | 7pm, Eden Church (+5.30pm dinner option)
Dr. Lamma Mansour is a Christian Palestinian from Nazareth, a writer and speaker engaging the intersection of faith and justice. Her work reflects on what it means to follow Christ in contexts marked by violence, with particular attention to how hope, beauty, and faith take form amid struggle. She writes on these themes in her Substack, Dispatches from Nazareth.
Lamma is also a sociologist whose research explores the political, spatial, emotional, and gendered dimensions of Palestinian life in Israel. Her current project, Hometowns in the Margins, examines how Palestinian youth relate to their hometowns under conditions of structural marginalization and contested identity, attending to experiences of belonging, fear, and possibility.
She also studies the impact of community violence and organized crime on young Palestinian women. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Dr. Yousef Khoury (Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is a Christian Arab Palestinian theologian from Gaza. He serves as Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Academic Dean at Bethlehem Bible College. He is a member of the steering committee of Christ at the Checkpoint and the board of Kairos Palestine. His research and publications, in Arabic and English, center on Palestinian theology, contextual biblical interpretation, and Palestinian and Arab Christianity.
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