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YaLa Poetry | We are all Israa by J.M, Palestine

Author: J.M, Palestine
Published: September 8, 2019
Categories: in Art, Civil Activism, Current Events, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Palestine, Religion, Tolerance, YaLa Poetry
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Let my body give you an overdose My aura moves the dominos They said I have demons, Ha? Even the demons loved me, Ra! Tell them Ana Hurra Ana Hurra To be strong, don’t ask me to I am strong already, I can make a crew I was just not ready I was 21 about […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘Gender Colors’ by Aseel, Palestine

Author: By Aseel, Palestine
Published: March 10, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Current Events, Democracy, Education, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Life Style, Palestine
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Tags: BalanceforBetter, IWD19, opinion, women rights, womenmonths, womenrights

Pink is the color for girls and blue for boys. Dolls for girls, cars for boys. They say that boys prefer cars and the color blue and that girls prefer dolls and pink but they are rather taught from a young age that they should prefer it that way. Little girls and boys are prepared […]

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 […]

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 […]

Death Takes Those We Love by Ameera, Gaza, Palestine

Author: By Ameera, Gaza, Palestine
Published: November 8, 2018
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, English, Human Rights, Identity, Palestine
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Tags: familyhistory, gaza, storytelling

Death and life are two parallel lines in the existence of a human, but death eventually meets the line of life. This story is different because it touches my soul and makes me feel like I want to scream and cry with all my energy because someone I know is dead. Death sometimes comes with […]

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