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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 […]

“Not family, we’re women” during a protest against femicide and domestic violence, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug. 7, 2020. Photo by Zeynep Karaosman

Behind #ChallengeAccepted campaign; anger over the increasing femicides in Turkey and the Istanbul Convention

Author: By Zeynep, Turkey | Opinion
Published: April 11, 2021
Categories: in Analysis, Civil Activism, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Tolerance
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Tags: change, femicides, feminist, Movement, Society, turkey

This summer social media feeds were stormed by black-and-white selfies of women with the hashtag of #ChallengeAccepted and #WomenEmpowerment and the users got more curious about the campaign as many celebrities joined the campaign and it went viral. #ChallengeAccepted hashtag and selfie format were first used in 2016 to raise awareness about cancer. This time, […]

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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 […]

Opinion | Can Palestinians become less divided? By Alaa, Palestine

Author: By Alaa, Palestine
Published: January 17, 2021
Categories: in Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Identity, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: Divisions, Media, palestine, Relationship, Society, Solution

Can Palestinians become less divided? Since joining the Hebrew university 4 years ago, I started a long journey ofdiscovering new things, people, and cultures, which opened my eyes to the different views of Palestinians in their own eyes and the others’. I’m half Jerusalemite, was born and raised in the holy city and out […]

Opinion | Penal Code 1943, Article 534, at the heart of the uprising, by Ibrahim A, Lebanon

Author: By Ibrahim A, Lebanon
Published: June 23, 2020
Categories: in Civil Activism, Democracy, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Identity, Lebanon, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Tags: beirut, justice, LGBTQ, LGBTQrights, Penal Code, uprising

In 1943, Lebanon gained its independence from the French. Originally enacted by French colonizers, article 534 was put while drafting the new Lebanese constitution, stating that any ‘sexual intercourse against nature’ is a crime under the sovereignty of the Lebanese government, with a penalty of up to one-year imprisonment. Such a vague law with no […]

سارة حجازي – Sarah Hegazi. Her life, her death, her legacy

Author: By Sarah Hegazi's friends, from Egypt, Syria Lebanon
Published: June 17, 2020
Categories: in Arabic, Civil Activism, Current Events, Egypt, English, French, Gender and LGBTQ, Hebrew, Human Rights, Identity, Lebanon, Syria, Tolerance
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Tags: activism, LGBTQ, LGBTQrights, Queer, Sarah Hegazi

(English, Hebrew & French translations follows) سارة حجازي، ناشطة مثلية نسوية ثورية مصرية، دافعت سارة وناضلت من أجل حقوق الإنسان كلها وعن كل مضطهد في مختلف العالم أعلنت سارة عن ميولها المثلية 2016 بكل جرأة في مجتمع يكره التعددية ويخاف من الإختلاف. وفي عام 2017 صممت وأدرات وشاركت سارة بحملة ” بعنوان “ادعم الحب” دعماً […]

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 […]

Ordinary Heroes & Our Freedom, A Tribute to Bassel Shehadeh and Shady Habash, By Moulham M, Syria

Author: By Moulham M, Syria
Published: May 5, 2020
Categories: in Art, Civil Activism, Democracy, Egypt, English, Human Rights, Identity, Syria, Tolerance, YaLa Poetry
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Tags: #WorldFreedomOfPressDay, Freedom of Speech, Shady Habash

I have never written in defence of a Syrian writer, a cartoonist a director, actor or human rights activist My heart was always with them But I was afraid to write I fear the expression, Not just for myself But for my family In Damascus we say: He who does not fear God, fear him! […]

Today is Yom haShoah, by Evie Leviten-Lawton, Israel

Author: By Evie Leviten-Lawton, Israel
Published: April 21, 2020
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Education, English, Identity, Israel, Tolerance
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Tags: genocide, holocaust, memorial, never again, Shoah

Today is Yom HaShoah in Israel. The day we remember six million Jews who were murdered, but not before they were rounded up like cattle, chased, hunted, beaten, starved, gassed, shot into mass graves, exhausted to death by work, by marches, by cruelty, separated from their loved ones, from everything they knew and loved, stripped […]

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 | SHE FOR SHE: Together Stronger to Achieve Gender Equality by Iness, Algeria

Author: Iness, Algeria
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Algeria, Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Identity, Opinion and Analysis, Tolerance
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Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but also a necessary foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. It consists of equal access to opportunities, regardless of gender. Nowadays and despite all the developments the world is witnessing, all the feminist movements, human rights campaigns and the massive changes that have been realized […]

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 […]

Opinion | The Real deal of the century – Mondial 2022 and a regional emergency climate and peace plan by Matai, Israel

Author: Matai Ben Aharon, Israel
Published: December 15, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Environment, Israel, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Tolerance
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Today it is known that global warming is a fact. The latest alarming reports by the IPCC (Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change) and the IPBES(Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) are suggesting , alongside civil protest movements, cities and countries, that the world is now in an actual climate emergency. Still the main contributor to this climate crisis, […]

YaLa Poetry | The One in the Mirror by Abigail, Israel

Author: Abigail L, Israel
Published: December 9, 2019
Categories: in Art, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Tolerance, YaLa Poetry
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Tags: notoracism, poem

It’s upsetting To discover That there is still Racism Inside of me Still, fear That can turn into Something ugly In moments of pressure I can take it Out there Even though It’s so sad But to find it inside Is heartbreaking Everyone is racist My friend said Even I am Even you are But […]

Her Pright by James S Namalira, Nigeria

Author: James S Namalira, Nigeria
Published: December 9, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Nigeria, Tolerance
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A true life experience of Kozito Eze I was in Lagos for a weekend for a couple of meetings and other personal arrangements sometime in May. I had to make the quick trip totally unplanned because of how important personally, securing bags is to me. But, I had to make a quick return to my […]

Opinion | The Right of Children in Israel to go to School is Beyond Right and Left by Manya, Israel

Author: Manya Kagan, Israel
Published: October 31, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Democracy, Development, Education, English, Human Rights, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Tolerance
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In today’s Israeli reality, nationalism has become incompatible with child rights. Israel is a country ridden with conflicts and divisions between different groups, but what I feel is the most painful and problematic social-political rift is that between the ‘liberal’ left and the ‘conservative’ right. Each of these sides has picked a set of values […]

Opinion | Muslim Women and the Hijab : To Save or not to Save by Rima ahsissene, Morocco

Author: By Rima ahsissene, Morocco
Published: October 31, 2019
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Identity, Life Style, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Hijab: the headscarf worn by some Muslim women Last week, in France a mother accompanying her son on a field trip in Dijon was publicly and loudly asked to remove her Hijab by a far-right politician of the local assembly[i]. And last month, a teacher in a school in Montreal had two choices either remove […]

Semaine de la santé mentale: Depression Post Partum; Quand le bonheur se fait attendre by Morgane, Israel

Author: Morgane, Israel
Published: October 14, 2019
Categories: in Current Events, Education, French, Gender and LGBTQ, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Tolerance
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Tags: Femmes mere feministes, Post Parthum, Sante mentale

Aujourd’hui c’est la journée de la santé mentale, et a cette occasion, je voudrais vous parler de mes premiers mois de maman. Ma première grossesse a été si facile, parfaite. Après presque 3 ans d’infertilité, de traitements, de pauses et de doutes, j’ai vécu une grossesse finalement spontanée avec joie, avec un sentiment de […]

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