What Jews fail to understand is that Arabs don’t deny the fact that Jews suffered and were discriminated against, we don’t claim they’re making up the terrible Holocaust, and we certainly don’t feel pleased or happy that they had to go through what they went through, we just want them to know that Arabs had [...]
“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.” – Edward Said Yesterday marked the 8th anniversary of the passing of Edward Said, the Palestinian literary theorist, the esteemed University Professor [...]
“Twenty nine years have past, my goodness. I’ll never forget you wonderful people. Neither will I forget the extremes of inhumanity and human compassion, the ugliness and beauty, the laughter and grins while murdering with a disregard for humanity and life impossible to comprehend, and the tears and cries of deepest despair and suffering no [...]
Ok ladies and gents, mark your calendars and get ready for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF), it’s going to take place between Sept.30- Oct.7, 2011. The festival program for 2011 is now live! The TPFF is a non-profit organization which started back in 2008 as a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba. Dedicated [...]
Freedom OneWorld… Freedom For Palestine
لا شيء يعجبني أكثر من الابتكار والإيجابية في النظر إلى الأمور حتّى في أصعب وأتعس الظروف. كما يُقال، الحاجة أمّ الاختراع، بغض النظر عن ماهيّة الاختراع وبغض النظر عنتعقيدهأوبساطته. وقد عُرِف الشباب الفلسطيني بتحدّيه للظروف، وابتكاره اللامحدود لإيجاد حلول لمشاكل مجتمعه، ولخلق فرص حُرِم منها، ومن هنا وُلِدت “فُرَص“. يهدف موقع “مدونة فرص” الإلكتروني إلى تعريف [...]
In a wonderful initiative aiming to spread world wide awareness concerning the suffering of the people of Gaza, and to raise funds for the Welfare Association‘s many humanitarian projects addressed to the Palestinian people, our friend Mishal Al Sakka decided to join a group of people in their 350 km cycling trip from Pisa to [...]
UPDATE: Facebook no longer bans “Palestinian” when creating pages, tried, and confirmed. Read more (in Arabic). Ok, apparently Facebook has banned the word “Palestinian”, so you can’t create pages with “this word” anymore, and I say anymore because before that, there was no problem and many groups and pages containing the word “Palestinian” were created [...]
أطلق اتحاد شباب النضال الفلسطيني في بداية مارس 2010 مشروع “صنع بأيدينا” ضمن برنامج “شباب من أجل التغيير“، الذي ينظمه الاتحاد بالتعاون مع مؤسسة تآيكنج إت جلوبال (TakingITGlobal) ومقرها كندا، والذي يأتي بالشراكة مع مكتبة الاسكندرية. ويُنفّذ المشروع في اثني عشرة دولة عربية. يسعى المشروع من خلال برامجه للحفاظ على التراث الفلسطيني وعلى المشغولات اليدوية التقليدية [...]
Demonstranten gegen die Apartheidmauer in Bil’in stellten diesen Freitag aus Anlass der Eröffnung der Fussballweltmeisterschaft in Südafrika ein palästinensische Fußballteam auf, in Erinnerung an ihr Recht, eine unabhängige Nation zu sein. Zusammen mit palästinensischen, israelischen und internationalen Teilnehmern marschierten sie zur Annexionsmauer, bauten dort ein Tor auf und begannen ein Spiel. Mehrere Bälle wurden über [...]
