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YaLa Poetry | The Ones Who Lead Us to the Troubles, Who? by Mahmoud H, Palestine

Author: Mahmoud H, Palestine
Published: September 26, 2019
Categories: in Art, Civil Activism, Current Events, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics, YaLa Poetry, כללי
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The ones who lead us to the troubles, who? Now I am going to tell you bro The problem is not the two fighting kids The problem is with the greedy elders Even though they get grey and bold They are like mountains, selfish, and solid Yes, they remain Like this mountain With this selfish […]

Opinion | Élections israéliennes: Ni libres ni justes by Dvir Aviam, Israël

Author: Opinion | Dvir Aviam, Israël
Published: September 10, 2019
Categories: in Current Events, Democracy, French, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Politics
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Tags: elections, Elections Israeliennes 2019, israel

Les prochaines élections israéliennes sont un exemple de l’érosion continue de la démocratie dans la région. Bien que certains développements représentent un espoir pour la jeunesse, les élections ont mis en doute la prétention israélienne d’être la «seule démocratie du Moyen-Orient». Pour le lecteur non-informé, voici un bref résumé – les élections actuelles […]

If you want an Apple, you have to plant a Tree – إذا أردت تفاحأ فعليك أن تزرع شجرة تفاح by Mahmoud H, Palestine

Author: Mahmoud H, Palestine
Published: August 8, 2019
Categories: in Arabic, Art, Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Development, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics, Tolerance, YaLa Poetry
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In our environment, we care about agriculture a lot, and our ancestors cared, even more, they took care of trees and planted them carefully, leaving the good reaps its own good fruit. They cared more about the trees and agriculture than they cared about the fruit, but their faithfulness gave them their harvest every year, […]

From Pain Into Action by Sam A, Palestine

Author: Written by Sam A, Palestine
Published: July 14, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Education, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics, Tolerance
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Tags: coexistence, IsraelPalestine, music, palestine, palestinianrefugees, Palestinians, peace, storytelling

We are all humans, with blood and feelings. When words come from our authentic heart, this will reach out to other people’s hearts and minds. I believe in change, I want to make a change in my community and other communities, I want to show all the world my story as a Palestinian refugee. I […]

The Change Just Started / A Palestinian refugee between the hammer of pain and the anvil of hope By Sam A, Palestine

Author: By Sam A, Palestine
Published: July 7, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Palestine, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: AravaInstitute, IsraelPalestine, palestine, Palestinians, peace, peace activism, peacebuilding, storytelling, yala young leaders

After graduating from university in 2015, I spent three years moving around the cities of the West Bank, unemployed and looking for a job or any other opportunity. Given the situation of favouritism and nepotism in my country, all my attempts meant nothing, and I lived three years in a bubble of puzzle and isolation. […]

Deal of the Century: Why We Refuse! By Mazen, Palestine

Author: By Mazen, Palestine
Published: June 27, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics
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Tags: corruption, Dealofthecentury, israel-palestine, IsraelPalestine, news, opinion, palestine, politics, USpeaceplan

Actually, I am not exactly sure why we are refusing it; however, when digging deeper into Palestinian media parties you will find a kind of Schizophrenia. Let me tell you how! We, as Palestinians, are divided into political, social, economic and religious groups, therefore we still do not know what we want or need, and […]

It’s a Matter of Perspectives by Elianne Kremer, Israel

Author: Elianne Kremer, Israel
Published: May 29, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Democracy, Education, English, Friendship, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Life Style, Tolerance
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Tags: israel-palestine, meditation, stories, terror

Six months after I arrived to Israel, I was living in Jerusalem and the terrorist attacks began. I didn’t really understand what was going on. People were afraid, it was possible to feel the discomfort in public spaces, in the bus mainly. Nobody wanted to be there, as if the expectancy of a terrorist attack […]

Mirror by Mahmoud, Palestine

Author: Mahmoud, Palestine
Published: May 21, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Religion, Special Edition Archive, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: activism, burma, palestine, peaceactivism, religion, Travel, traveling

It was the end of January 2018, the time of year that people in the Middle East expect snow. Alone in my studio apartment in Bethlehem, I remembered images of family gatherings, wearing our warmest clothes, enjoying creatively prepared sweet warm dishes, gathering around a wood stove. We took the warmth from each other while […]

Recovering Memories by sam A, Palestine

Author: By Sam A, Palestine
Published: May 16, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: peace, peacebuilding, storytelling

After the blockade, we survived, but the suffering did not end yet. We did not have a school in my camp, we used to walk for twenty minutes to the UN school at a neighbouring refugee camp. Today, 15th May 2019, I am writing my story and recovering memories with my mother. I ask, “Mom, […]

Chapter III, Tormented nights by Sam A, Palestine

Author: By Sam A, Palestine
Published: May 10, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine
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Tags: storytelling

Two years later, in 2002, the IDF invaded Nablus under the mission, Operation Defensive Shield. For one month, my camp was under blockade with a curfew imposed, which meant we no longer had access to the food and water that we used to receive from the United Nations. One memory will never leave my mind. How could I ever […]

Chapter II – My Childhood, The pain remains by Sam A, Palestine

Author: By Sam A, Palestine
Published: May 2, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics
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Tags: palestinianrefugees

I want to define myself as a refugee before defining myself as a Palestinian. Having a UN recognized refugee status has given me a first-hand and a unique perspective on the conflict. This unique identity has placed me, particularly in my childhood yet throughout my life, at the centre of the conflict, and a witness […]

A Palestinian refugee, between the hammer of pain and the anvil of hope Chapter I, My Family: The pain just started by Sam A, Palestine

Author: Sam A, Palestine
Published: April 18, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Tolerance, YaLa Poetry
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Tags: israel-palestine, palestine, palestinianrefugees, refugeecamp, refugees

1948. This is the year when my family was first displaced from our homeland in Beer Sheva. It happened during the war, our house and farm were looted in cold blood. My grandfather passed away 10 years ago. He always told me it was a good life before the war, living as Bedouins and moving […]

Do You Know What? by y Dean, Israel

Author: By Dean, Israel
Published: April 16, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: Interview

It’s late at night and I had been up since 5 am. We’re somewhere in Jordan, a horizon of sand hidden in the darkness. Someone had mentioned sitting outside by the firepit. Strangers, mostly. I’m not sure where the firepit is. I’m not sure anyone is going to want to talk with me, an Israeli. […]

I’m tolerant, however… By Imen R, Tunisia

Author: By Imen R
Published: April 7, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Development, Education, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Palestine, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: acceptance, conference, Humanity, peace, peacebuilding, tolerance

Since my childhood, peace and war were the main topics talked about in my school, my family gatherings, on TV, on the radio, my Facebook newsfeed, and more. When people talk about war, I knew what I can imagine: conflicts, bombs, fire, death, corps, guns, hate, and tears. But peace! Oh dear, what’s peace? Is […]

YaLa Poetry | ”And wondering about our persistence to live” By Mohammed M, Gaza, Palestine

Author: By Mohammed M, Gaza, Palestine
Published: March 31, 2019
Categories: in Art, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine
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Tags: gaza, gazalove, gazayouth, palestine, poetry

I went to the market, for an emergency. Quickly, I got dressed. I don’t know why I didn’t look back at the mirror this time, As I usually do. Habitually I check myself in the mirror once and twice Before I go out. This has nothing to do with my looks. But, I am used […]

My Ambassador of PEACE by Tamar Shemesh, Israel

Author: By Tamar Shemesh, Israel
Published: March 19, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Life Style
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Tags: activism, music, peacebuilding

“We need to separate between two things. There are policies and actions of my government that I don’t agree with. On the other hand, Israel my home, and I love my home”. Achinoam Nini. NOA, Achinoam Nini, is an International well-known vocalist and musician, Israeli peace activist and my example of a brave woman. She […]

YaLa, let’s travel more! by Hiba Bachiri, Morocco

Author: By Hiba Bachiri, Morocco
Published: March 11, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Education, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Morocco, Tolerance, Travel
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I always wanted to fly abroad and I always imagined how it would be like. How silly of me to wonder if the air smells different from one country to another, or whether the street noises are different. I always felt trapped in my own bubble like a feather floating aimlessly through life, going wherever […]

A letter to a friend I met somewhere near the Holy land by Moulham, Syria

Author: By Moulham, Syria
Published: March 3, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Development, Education, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Iraq, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Tolerance, Travel
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You asked for news. Well, I’ve got news. My flight got delayed for 30 minutes because of the storm in Jordan, I arrived in Vienna 15 minutes before the 2nd flight to Paris, I used my headphones to listen to the music of Mission Impossible in order to feel that if Tom Cruise can do […]

Unlikely Encounters by Moe Azraq, Jordan

Author: By Moe Azraq, Jordan
Published: January 3, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Democracy, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Life Style, Palestine, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: #crossculturalXchange

On a beautiful spring evening in Haifa, I was sitting outside and reading a book at a cafe called Elika while waiting for my friend Daphy to come and pick me up to go to a Seder (Passover dinner) at her aunt’s house in Nahariya, when a group of “48 Palestinian” men and women (Palestinians […]

Always The Stranger by Marah Sarji, Israel

Author: By Marah Sarji, Israel-Palestine
Published: December 2, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Life Style, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: #identity #crossculturalexchange #dance #respect #tolerance, identity, storytelling

Every Thursday, there is a salsa night held at the university that is open to students. Usually, there is a class that starts at 20:00 for different levels to learn new moves, and after that, there is a dance party that goes on until people get tired, which is generally at 3:00. I used to […]

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