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1. RE: Help our Colleague ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.From: Madison Halaby Gordon Posted: Tuesday December 23, 2025 10:08 PM Subject: RE: Help our Colleague Message: Thank you Aisha for sharing this important and exciting update! It has been a pleasure getting to know Saeed over this last year and I am so eager for many of us to have the opportunity to meet him in person in Montreal next year. The campaign is only $4k away from the halfway mark <https://chuffed.org/project/help-saeed-shat-family-evacuate-gaza>, which is the minimum requisite amount for the family to evacuate Gaza once borders are reopened. I am so grateful to see so many of our community members contributing, and encourage those who have not yet to please consider a generous donation to the Shat family before the end of the year. Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! https://chuffed.org/project/help-saeed-shat-family-evacuate-gaza <https://chuffed.org/project/help-saeed-shat-family-evacuate-gaza> ------------------------------ Madison Halaby Gordon Conservation Technician Oakland United States ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 12-20-2025 01:01 From: Aisha Wahab Subject: Help our Colleague It is almost the end of 2025 and while it is a year where many of us may have already donated, please consider giving one more time this holiday season to this campaign <https://chuffed.org/project/help-saeed-shat-family-evacuate-gaza>. Saeed Shat is our colleague who has been trying to escape Gaza with his wife and children and relocate to Canada. Saeed has been part of a team working to rescue manuscripts from the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza. In addition to his conservation work, he has been studying water treatment systems and has been accepted into a master's program at the University of Alberta in Canada to continue his studies in this area, with the goal to contribute to the rehabilitation of Gaza's water systems. Additionally Saeed has had a talk accepted at next year's AIC-CAC Annual Meeting in Montreal and is the recipient of AIC's inaugural Tier 3 Nation Presenter Support Stipend. This is amazing news and we are so happy for Saeed. While the stipend will cover his trip expenditures to AIC it does not cover the fee on Gazans trying to leave Gaza. Because Israel has closed all the borders preventing anyone from leaving, most can only leave if they have money to pay their way out at the Rafah border which is often $5,000 USD per person at a minimum. Please consider donating to this campaign which has been organized by Conservators with Palestine to help our colleague and his family obtain a safe new life, and be able to present his conservation work in person at next year's conference. Please share this campaign to your friends and families and please donate generously. Wishing everyone a safe and happy new year and holidays for those that celebrate. ------------------------------ Aisha Wahab (she/her) Paper Conservator Stanford Libraries ------------------------------ You are subscribed to "Global Conservation Forum (ConsDistList)" as [email protected]. To change your subscriptions, go to http://community.culturalheritage.org/preferences?section=Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to https://community.culturalheritage.org/HigherLogic/eGroups/Unsubscribe.aspx?UserKey=d16eaa87-0f69-494b-9f2f-303dbc1222e1&sKey=fab9aa4f27a04c5d876e&GroupKey=757a8f16-505f-4323-8e74-e376757aa9f7.
