Human Rights

A CHALLENGING YEAR IN POLAND by Safae El Ouadifi, Morocco

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It was the 1st of August in 2013 and it began as any other ordinary sunny morning in my beloved city Casablanca. I was checking my email inbox and it was full to the brim. I was about to logout of my inbox and go back to my unfinished morning nap, an email caught my […]
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Peace in War by Sandra Ben Abdrabbah, Tunisia

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A grandfather and grandchild relationship is always depicted as a unique connection with a special interaction between the two. You will always find a “Grandpa” who has the role of a storyteller while his grandchild is going to be his listener. This story is going to be about my wonderful grandfather. It doesn’t seem unreasonable […]
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A Plea for the Skillful Abolition of the Eternal Feminine

Author: Ali, Yemen
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I find many outcries in the Middle East a little difficult to classify and difficult to respond to. I mean, what are we actually trying to say? What do we want? Who are the bad guys? And what do we want to do about it? I think that before I give an opinion, I should […]
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A poem by Abigail Levitt

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Can we take the beauty, the love, the goodness, the warmth, the caring, the willingness to sacrifice, the love, and use them to build a world of love, a land of peace, a place of belonging for both peoples?   We have so much love to give, We really do We fight out of our […]
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Volunteering Value by Kholod Zughbor, Gaza, Palestine

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“Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted, counts.”              – Albert Einstein Volunteering is about giving, contributing and helping other individuals and society at-large. It is about working with others to make a meaningful contribution to a better community. You can volunteer to gain hands-on experience, acquire new skills, […]
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My First Egalitarian Prayer by Binny Zupnick, Israel

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“Want to come with us to the synagogue we’re praying at?” “Okay.” What seems at first glance like an innocuous and rote question and answer, this exchange has stuck with me over the years. It was Shavuot[1] night, 2014, Jerusalem, Katamon, at my family friend’s with whom I was staying for the holiday. Two other […]
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The Power is the Pump of the Peace by Mohamed, Egypt

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Peace is like a fruitful tree, for it to live, there must be a power protecting it. I remember when I was 9 years old, on the first day of school, crying and hugging my younger brother “Amr” while other students were hitting and insulting us. My brother “Amr” was crying, as he was so […]
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Light Blue Eyes by Orit Eldar, Israel

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It was at the end of winter 2005. I found myself sitting in the living room of a 2.5 bedroom apartment I knew too well. The curtains, sofas and paintings on the walls reminded me that I was in a safe place, they have been a part of this house my entire life. But I […]
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A Night in Kobani by Abdulslam Mohammad Khanjar, Syria

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On September 14, 2014, the Siege of Kobani by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was underway. Already, the people from the villages near Kobani were leaving and moving toward the Turkish Border. Eight-year-old Jwan had gone with his cousin, 10-year-old Jan, to play in the nearby play yard. Back at home, the […]
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The last two Tanks by Mohammed Khalaf, Palestine

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2002 was a year unlike any other, at least in Palestine and Israel. All news and pictures coming in were tinged in blood red. In Tel-Aviv, Ramallah, Jenin and Jerusalem the streets were not as usual. Cinema Square in Jenin, the heart of city, was completely deserted of the guys who used to come there […]
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Life with Moe by Ofek Ravid, Israel

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It was one of my days off on a sunny Sunday morning when I first met him. To be honest, I was not expecting to meet Moe that day. I was off to the big town of Sonora, a town of thousands  of individuals living in the mountains of central California. I was going to […]
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“Where are the men, speak or I’kill you!” by Alexandrine, Burkina Faso

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There are some moments in life that remain etched in the memory and we re-live the same emotions when we bring back those memories. In regards to the story I’m going to tell you, I still tremble whenever I mention it. We are in 2015 in Lomé, the Togolese capital. The atmosphere is tense. Gnassingbe’s […]
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Few Seconds, Lifelong Lesson by Abu Bakr Bashir, Gaza, Palestine

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It was July 2014, a few days after the war in Gaza started. I was at home with my wife, Reem, and our two kids, Lily, 5, and Joe, 4. Like every other family in Gaza, we were dressed to leave at a moment’s notice – Lily was wearing the pink track suit I bought […]
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Darashish, and My First Lesson from a Stranger Abed-allah A. Baba from Iraq

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I was born in Sulaimanyah, Iraq in 1994. Not only is it a great city, but it has officially been recognized as the capital of enlightenment by the Kurdistan Regional Government. But at the age of 5 my father’s job forced us to move to Iran, and so we went to Sanandaj in 1999. I […]
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The Horrible Russians’ Glasses | Yasmine Alice, Algeria

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After more than 10 hours in the air, and a transit in Frankfurt, the plane from Cairo landed in Moscow, at Domodedovo airport at 8:45 pm, and all excited, I ran to the passport check. I gave him my Algerian passport to the custom officer. He was a fairly tall man, blonde and did not […]
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I am Not a Minority | Alia Sito, Jordan

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28/July/2016 A few days ago there was a workshop that included a meeting about minorities in Jordan, the included minorities in this workshop were: Caucasians (Chechens and Circasians), Kurds, Pakistanis and Druze. I received the invitation as a Jordanian activist from Chechen ancestry living in Jordan. The topic of the workshop seemed interesting and caught […]
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Until no man will die from hunger, and no child will grow up in the street by Uri Eytan, Israel

Author: Uri Eytan
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In 2012, I was a baccalaureate candidate in a sunstruck city in southern Israel, without any clear direction or purpose. One day in March, I heard that an outside speaker was coming to the university to give a lecture about the world’s poverty crisis. This was not something you typically hear about during your studies, […]
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A Ride with a QUIET driver by Yazeed Al Jeddawy from Yemen

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I remember very well how I did not sleep for two nights, and how I could barely take my exhausted body to reach the taxi station. It took me only about 15 minutes to reach to the station, where I was supposed to “ select” the means of transportation to travel from Sanaa, the capital […]
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Once More With Feeling | Hannah, Israel

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A grey crate with seventeen 10 cent Israeli Agorot coins, one 1/4 Jordanian dinar coin, a small battery, and a white cloth – made in China – for covering challot, the braided bread Jews eat on Friday nights and holidays. When people leave a home for good, they always leave a random selection of items […]
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We Are All Human | Ahmed, Palestine

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I was taught to look at people the way they look at me. I was raised to respect, value, and admire the different cultures, languages, skin colors, religions, and races. When I went to visit my grandfather 5 years ago, it was one of those sunny April days. An 82 year old man, who had […]
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