Please join Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for a discussion via Zoom call on January 28th from 7:00pm – 8:00pm. The call will be facilitated by PYM’s General Secretary, Christie Duncan-Tessmer, joined by presenter, Jim Fine, and other members from PYM’s Middle East Collaborative.
- After a brief welcome and worship, the conversation will begin with an overview of the situation in Iran as well as some learning and sharing of the responses from other Quaker organizations.
- Next, we will explore how Friends and local meetings have responded and briefly hear about their work from others on the call.
- Before closing, we will spend some time to identify the next steps that we, as a religious community can take and who will be supporting them.
Zoom Call information
- Topic: Iran Call
- Time: Jan 28, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/3531120145
- Meeting ID: 353 112 0145
- Dial in:
- 929 436 2866
or - 669 900 6833
- 929 436 2866
- Meeting ID: 353 112 0145
Resources to explore
- After Soleimani: How the US-Iran clash is changing the world
- The International Crisis Group’s webpage on Iran
- Washington Memo: Faith statements
- Friends Journal Bob Dockhorn’s article Feb 2019
- AFSC: 5 things to know about Iran
- FCNL toolkit
Jim Fine’s Bio
Jim Fine is a member of the Middle East Collaborative of PYM. He served most recently in the Middle East as Mennonite Central Committee interim representative for Iraq, Iran, and Jordan. In this position he was based in Amman, Jordan from March through June 2019.
Jim and his wife, Deborah, also served as MCC service workers in Iraq from 2010 to 2014. Based in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish Region in northern Iraq, they administered MCC’s relief, development, and conflict prevention work with Iraqi partner organizations throughout the country. They returned to their former positions in Erbil as interim staff for four months in 2018.
Prior to serving with MCC Jim worked on Iraq, Iran, and other Middle East issues at the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington from 2006 to 2010.
Jim served with the American Friends Service Committee in Jerusalem in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s as co-director of the Quaker Legal Aid Office and Quaker International Affairs Representative for the Middle East. He holds an MA in comparative religion from Columbia University.
