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Opinion| I wish I did not have to write #Save_Sheikh_Jarrah, By P, Israel

Author: By P, Israel
Published: May 10, 2021
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Politics
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Tags: Eviction, jerusalem, middle east, Middle East voices, MiddleEast, Save_Sheikh_Jarrah, Sheikh_Jarrah, stop the violence

I wish I did not have to write this. I wish I did not have to share about me, because the last thing I want is to make this about me. I wish I did not have to take a stand. I wish families could live in their homes and feel safe there, without having […]

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Global Citizenship: Isn’t it more an identity we shall embrace?

Author: By Rachida, Morocco/Tunisia | Opinion
Published: April 29, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Identity, Life Style, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis, Tunisia
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Tags: Global Citizen, identity, Lifestyle

Isn’t it frustrating to only live once? A lot of exquisite spirits to meet and deep stories to hear. A lot of fabulous places to go and cultures to get inspired from. A lot to read about the world and to discover about yourself. A lot to receive and a lot to give to your […]

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Living between Two Countries-Under Stress

Author: By Aseel, Palestine | Opinion
Published: April 11, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: conflict, intifada, israel, palestine

The life of a Jerusalemite family after the second intifada “Alaqsa intifada” 2000-2005, During the period of the Palestinian second intifada (Intense Israeli-Palestinian violence period, Palestinians consider it as an uprising against Israel, while Israelis describe it as prolonged terror campaign), Israel used it as a pretext to control all areas in Jerusalem and control […]

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Hakama! We are the revolution

Author: By Khalid, Sudan | Opinion
Published: March 4, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Opinion and Analysis, Sudan, Tolerance
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Tags: Movements, revolution, sudan, war

Between the sounds “Zgareed” and under the showers of bullets, people are masked with Hijabs, preventing the arrival of tear gas. Inside neighborhoods, universities, and public areas, individuals are shouting “Freedom, peace, justice!” In Sudan, my country as an Arab-African society as well as a multicultural community with different ethnicities, there were always these traditional […]

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Revisted memories from the Chadian-Libyan WAR

Author: By Malak, Libya
Published: March 1, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Libya, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: Chad, Libyia, memories, Testimonies, war

Chad war is a memory that may ended. Nevertheless, it is still revisited in political conversations and debates. The Chadian–Libyan conflict was a series of military campaigns in Chad between the period of 1978 and 1987. Fought between Libyan and allied Chadian forces against Chadian groups. Supported by France, with the occasional involvement of other foreign countries […]

A grown-up child in a conflict-zone, by Aseel S, Palestine

Author: By Aseel S, Palestine
Published: February 24, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine
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Tags: checkpoint, Conflict-zone, storytelling

My name is Aseel and as a girl who was raised in a conflict, I got through a lot of stories I could tell you about. Still, I chose this one because it was the first time I realised that I was living in a conflict zone, and I will always suffer from it until […]

Essay I The Two State Solution Between Palestine and Israel, by Al Mahdi, Palestine.

Author: Al Mahdi
Published: September 3, 2020
Categories: in Analysis, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Democracy, Development, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics
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The current solution for Israel and Palestine suggests that Palestinians ought to have their state, separate from Israel. In this way, a ‘Two-State’ solution might be reached. The method by which such a solution could be implemented involves a technical division of land with walls, earth mounds, roadblocks and fences. This article discusses the so-called […]

Opinion| Lebanon, the day after the blast, by Mohamed Abubaker, Sudan

Author: Mohamed Abubaker, Sudan
Published: August 9, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Lebanon, Opinion and Analysis, Sudan
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Tags: beirut, Liban, middle east, Op-Ed, PrayforBeirut

Since yesterday morning, I read so many harsh comments from Arabs and Africans shaming and condemning the Lebanese people for the petition started by some activists, inviting French mandate back to Lebanon, which so far gathered far more signatures than votes in elections in Lebanon. Citing anti-colonialism quotes along the way, from various civil rights […]

Opinion | “All Human Beings are Born Free” By Feras, Gaza, Palestine

Author: By Feras, Gaza, Palestine
Published: July 3, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine
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“All Human Beings are Born Free” reads the title of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed in Paris (France) on 10 Dec. 1948, voted for by 48 countries, with 8 abstentions but not a single country who voted against it. The Declaration’s 30 articles include the right to dignity, liberty, equality, the right […]

Opinion | Between Two Extremes, By Fitnat Waked, Palestine-Israel

Author: By Fitnat Waked, Palestine-Israel
Published: June 9, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine
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Tags: Arab Israeli, Arabs and Jews, coexistence, Israely society, Palestinians of Israel, Shared society

Amid the struggle for recognition, acceptance, respect and the conflict with their own identities, Palestinian citizens of Israel need to find the middle ground. The middle ground is a place where Palestinian Israeli citizens live with a balance between their heritage and history, and the need and want to integrate and flourish within Israeli society. Despite the […]

I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; not to kill Iyad Hallaq. By Mahmoud G, Palestine

Author: By Mahmoud G, Palestine
Published: June 3, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Tolerance, YaLa Poetry
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Tags: Iyad Hallaq, jerusalem, Palestinains lives matter

You call me a person of colour And you call yourself white When you are cold you turn blue When you are hot you turn red When you are sick you turn yellow When you are sad you turn grey When you are angry your heart becomes dark And after all of this, you […]

A bleeding Tripoli, By Malak M, Lybia

Author: By Malak M, Lybia
Published: May 10, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Libya, Religion
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Tags: Civil War, covi-19, libyawar, North Africa, tripoli, war

I am currently going through the inner conflict of being away from home but wanting to be home now as my home, Tripoli is being attacked by Khalifa Haftar. He decided over a year ago to attack Tripoli under the name of eradicating militia groups but ended up killing civilians instead and over the past […]

This is my dying day, or it could be,By Haytham, Yemen

Author: By Haytham, Yemen
Published: March 26, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Life Style, Yemen
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Tags: Aden, lostyouth, middle east, War in Yemen, youthdreams

This is my dying day, or it could be. We are living what’s even worse than war. At least at war, the enemy is plain known… This is my dying day, or it could be. This is A story of a dying city in an ill world, so insignificant that you might never even […]

YaLa Young Leaders on the Israeli Educational Channel – Kan 23 | by Dalya, Israel and Abdullah, Palestine

Author: by Dalya, Israel and Abdullah, Palestine
Published: March 4, 2020
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Friendship, Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Palestine, Politics
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YaLa-Young Leaders Alumni Dalya and Abdullah giving a perfect example of what joint efforts for peace can look like! Dalya, a Jewish Israeli, and Abdullah, a Muslim Palestinian, were invited to talk about YaLa and prospects for peace with the remarkable Lucy Aharish, who’s an Arab-Israeli herself, on Israeli TV-channel KAN 23. By the way, […]

Opinion| Unpopular Thoughts About Peace, by M, Syria

Author: By M, Syria
Published: February 10, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Syria
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Tags: Arab World, Deal of the Century, Dealofthecentury, Middle East voices, trump, US peace deal

Last Tuesday, President Trump released his “deal of the century” for Middle East peace. I couldn’t help but share with you my thoughts loudly. But who am I speaking to? Maybe to the Palestinians in the first place, because the ball of peace now is in their court. Why? Perhaps to understand, it […]

Opinion| Foreign peace plans are not the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, By Dvir Aviam, Israel

Author: By Dvir Aviam, Israel
Published: February 6, 2020
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics
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Tags: Deal of the Century, Middle East Peace Plan, peace, trump, United States

As an Israeli, I felt the collective gratitude and jubilant mood prevalent in the Israeli society after the white house announced their new peace plan, effectively validating Israeli claims for 30% of the Israeli occupied territories. As a peace activist, however, I felt disappointed that our long term goal- two states solution according to the […]

Photo Essay | History by Amir, Dalya, Mohammad, Sereen and Zo, Israel and Palestine

Author: Amir, Dalya, Mohammad, Sereen and Zo, Israel and Palestine
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Art, Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Photo Essays, Religion, Tolerance, כללי
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Jerusalem is a city with millennia-old stories to tell. But it is not a dead city. It is alive with stories being made as we speak. As they say today is tomorrow’s yesterday. In this photographic essay we tried to tap into the layers of history that make up this city – whether they are […]

Photo Essay | Life by Li-Or, Tamim, Besan, Tarneem and Mohammed, Israel and Palestine

Author: Li-Or, Tamim, Besan, Tarneem and Mohammed, Israel and Palestine
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Art, Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Photo Essays, Religion, Tolerance
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Life and death are just like light and darkness, love and hate, you can’t separate them .You need both of them to recognize each one of them. You want to know if you are alive? then you should know the opposite of […]

Opinion | The Isolation of West Bank Palestinian Women by Aida Zsófia, Palestine

Author: Aida Zsófia, Palestine
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Recently, the murder of Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian girl from Bethlehem turned the spotlight on the situation of Palestinian women, the spatial isolation of them in the West Bank and the phenomena standing behind it. Generally, with regards to the situation of the Palestinian women there are two determining arguments. Some people might say […]

Opinion | Do Right by Those who are Already a Part of Us by Inbal, Israel

Author: Inbal Baron, Israel
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Sudan, Tolerance, כללי
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A week before the September elections, ynet published an article focusing on the policies of the various political parties concerning the immigration issue. Representing the Likud party in the article, was May Golan, who had led the struggle to deport African asylum seekers (“infiltrators”) and who became an MK in the period between the April […]

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