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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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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. […]

‘Native’ by Zohar Weiss, Israel

Published: November 21, 2017
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Friendship, Identity, Tolerance
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I never imagined that heading out on a sunny Saturday for a day trip in northern Israel would end on the ruins of my friend’s village, behind a shabby “Paz” gas station in the middle of nowhere near a small village called Hayogev. It was a sunny autumn weekend when we decided to travel to […]