Summary
A prominent organization fusing Islam with Palestinian nationalism in the diaspora, examined in Chapter 3 of Lybarger’s book through its 2013 conference and its Nakba commemoration (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.47).
Details
- AMP holds an annual conference on Palestine drawing thousands from the Chicago metropolitan area and across the United States, and had recently established a national advocacy office in Washington, DC (PDF p.47).
- Kristin Szremski, a convert to Islam, was at the time of the July 2014 demonstration a staff member in charge of AMP’s media relations (PDF p.24).
- What AMP does in the Chicago community is presented as representative of a wider transformation that has fused Islam with Palestinian nationalism in the diaspora (PDF p.47).