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Football’s Peace Team in a FairPlay Tournament by Abdullah K, Palestine and Dalya Arussy, Israel

Author: Abdullah K, Palestine and Dalya Arussy, Israel
Published: August 26, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Education, English, Friendship, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Palestine, Politics, Tolerance, Travel
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It’s 3 AM. We’re blinded by the fluorescent lights of Ben Gurion Airport’s Terminal 1. Our eyes want to close but we know we must keep them open to try and recognize the last participants to arrive before we can check-in. We met only once before, so that, combined with the early morning hours makes […]

Banned: The Price of Supporting Human Rights in Egypt by Shmuel Aiello, Israel

Author: Shmuel Aiello, Israel
Published: August 19, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Egypt, English, Human Rights, Israel, Politics, Religion, Travel, כללי
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Last week I helped oversee a wonderful 4 days conference for Jewish and Palestinian students. After the conference, I took an overnight bus to Eilat, on my way to Egypt. It was going to be my first visit to Egypt in 9 years. Instead, I was held by Egypt for 34 hours, refused a translator, […]

Memories from Damascus… By Moulham, Syria

Author: By Moulham, Syria
Published: July 24, 2019
Categories: in Art, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Iran, Lebanon, Life Style, Syria, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: Art, cinema, damascus, Inspiration, Knafeh, nostalgie, syria, syrianyouth

In 2005, I was studying at the best private school in Damascus. Al Saade School, which in English means “the happiness school”, and I thought I was happy, when my biggest dream was to run my father’s jewellery shop and study cinema at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts. As a result of the War […]

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. […]

women’s World Cup: More than just football! By Dalya Arussy, Israel

Author: By Dalya Arussy, Israel
Published: June 30, 2019
Categories: in Current Events, Education, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: Feminism, fifa2019, football, women rights, women's wolrd cup 2019, women's world cup, worldcup2019.

“We wouldn’t have known the Women’s World Cup was happening if you hadn’t said anything.” I sat in front of him tight-lipped, giving a pitiful smile. Most likely, I also rolled my eyes. Although I’m passionate about all forms of football, I generally don’t force it into conversations, especially not women’s football, unless I see […]

All the Undisclosed Stories of the City by Ala Oueslati, Tunisia

Author: Ala Oueslati
Published: June 16, 2019
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, English, Human Rights, Identity, Life Style, Tolerance, Travel, Tunisia
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Tags: city, diversity, newyork, stories

I still get lost in New York. I will probably still always get lost in New York. Because it is a gigantic city, but also because I have a terrible sense of direction that even my phone GPS can’t rectify. This city is a magical place. With a great deal of diversity, livelihood, and richness, […]

6 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT HOUN, THE GEM OF THE LIBYAN SOUTHWEST by Malak, Lybia

Author: Malak, Lybia
Published: May 21, 2019
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Libya, Travel
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The way history was taught in Libya when I was young wasn’t interesting, but I was very interested in history, especially Libyan history. It wasn’t easy to learn more since the former regime managed to erase any trace regarding Libya before 1969. My first visit to the National Museum of Tripoli was the time I […]

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 […]

AUTHENTICITY OF AFRICAN CULTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CULTURE APPROPRIATION by Timi Aluko, Nigeria

Author: By Timi Aluko, Nigeria
Published: May 21, 2019
Categories: in Art, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Education, English, Identity, Nigeria, Special Edition Archive, Travel
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Tags: africa, culturalappropriation, history, nigeria

Lying on my bed with my eyes glued to my phone screen, I was scrolling through the pages of my Instagram feed. From slaying mamas to small businesses to black Americans screaming cultural appropriation. A particular post caught my eye, cultural appropriation of the Ankara fabric. I read the details of the post and I […]

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, 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 […]

Tequilas and Kindness by Zo Flamenbaum, Israel

Author: By Zo Flamenbaum, Israel
Published: February 20, 2019
Categories: in English, Friendship, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Tolerance, Travel
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As I sipped a glass of sweet Turkish tea on the open-aired rooftop of the hostel, I raged inside. The city sparkled before me as my two friends went to sleep, and I immediately let loose in my journal, my pen transmitting the anger boiling up within me. It was our last night in Istanbul, […]

The Witness against the Death Boat by Eman F, Libya

Author: By Eman F, Libya
Published: February 13, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Libya, Religion, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: refugees

Feeling foreign and unfamiliar makes us lonely. If we do not try to integrate our homeland with the place where we live, we might get lost between the two. Libya always was and still is a second home for many immigrants from different countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. She had been living in Libya for […]

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 […]

A Whole Life In A Suitcase by Boushra Dabbagh, Syria

Author: By Boushra Dabbagh, Syria
Published: November 15, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Identity, Syria, Travel
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Tags: identity, Refugee

It was midnight and the voices outside were louder than our voices inside. It was one of the dark days in Aleppo. We were frightened when Dad said that it was time to go! The time when our lives would change forever. We started packing our things, and I was talking to myself while packing, […]

Gaza from the Inside Out by Husam, Palestine

Author: By Husam, Gaza, Palestine
Published: November 14, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Education, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Life Style, Palestine, Travel
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Tags: education, gaza, Life in Gaza, Travel, warandconflict

How does life look outside of Gaza?! I have always asked myself what a young man in his twenties – exactly like me – is doing in another part of the world? How will I get through my twenties without having tried great experiences? I haven’t tried to jump from a plane, camp in nature, […]

She Embraced The Sea For The First Time by Doha, Palestine

Author: By Doha, Palestine
Published: November 13, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Travel
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Frankly, I did not like the sea. Even though I had never visited, I had only seen it on television and it did not draw my eye. But many sang of the sea and many took notice. I also knew that the sea was connected to feelings and that people love to go there and […]

Hush Little Baby by Nir Cafri, Israel

Author: By Nir Cafri, Israel
Published: November 11, 2018
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Religion, Travel
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Tags: India, meditation, Travel

Two hundred and forty hours, fourteen thousand and four hundred minutes of pure silence, not one word said by any human being I interacted with, not one word said by me, in the ten days of the Vipassana course. Vipassana, in the Indian language Pali “to see clearly”, is a guide to life, a set […]

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