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Whose Responsibility is it?

Author: Ma’ayan
Published: December 24, 2024
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Education, English, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Latest Articles
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Tags: #thinkactyala, activism, change, coexistence, conflict, discovertheregion, education, family, hope, Humanity, identity, Inspiration, israel, IsraelPalestine, love, MENA, palestine, peace, peace activism, peacebuilding, tolerance, women, womenforpeace, yala young leaders, yalayoungleaders

“You are not an observer, you are a participant.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh. There is a moment when you can’t sit still anymore. An energy bustling from within you makes you speak or take a step. You are standing in line and hear a conversation you think could be different if you were part […]

Tales of Imilchil by Youba D, Morocco

Author: By Youba D, Morocco
Published: October 29, 2018
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Development, Education, English, Human Rights, Identity, Morocco, Travel
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Tags: #Maghreb, #thinkactyala, Amazigh, discovertheregion, Inspiration, MENALeadersforChange, morocco, poverty, tourism, traveling

I am called Youba, a name given to me by my father, who was deeply in love with the Amazigh culture of North Africa. I Discovered the meaning of my name when his fingertips traced the papers of a history book that told the story of the great Amazighi King Youba. A Moroccan, of Tafraout, […]

Photo Essay | I am part of this city, and it is part of me by Rowan, Gaza, Palestine

Author: By Rowan, Gaza, Palestine
Published: September 3, 2018
Categories: in Art, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Palestine, Photo Essays
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Tags: discoverpalestine, discovertheregion, gaza, MENA, MiddleEast, palestine, YaLa Photo Essay

These are pictures of a city that is frequently mentioned on the news, often sad news, wars, siege, power and water cuts… This is my beautiful city of Gaza, part of the state of Palestine, with an area of 360 square kilometers, with a population of approximately 2 million. I am part of this city, […]

Photo Essay | Buildings by Youba Darif, Morocco

Author: By Youba Darif, Morocco
Published: August 30, 2018
Categories: in Art, Culture and Heritage, English, Morocco, Photo Essays, Travel
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Tags: #Maghreb, discovertheregion, Inspiration, morocco, tourism, traveling

Buildings also can speak and tell people’s stories, history, lifestyle, visions, struggles, hopes, and aspirations. During my recent travels in my country, Morocco, I discovered the essence of my magnificent culture and civilization by looking at the small details in buildings which witness a tremendous history. Each building in the following photos has so many […]

Photo Essay | Tales of Tripoli: Vivid Colors Despite The Paleness of Dismay by Rawan, Libya

Author: By Rawan, Libya
Published: August 14, 2018
Categories: in Art, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Identity, Libya, Life Style, Photo Essays
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Tags: discovertheregion, libya, Travel

Movements of the Tripoli streets are unaffected by life in Libya, or lack thereof in this case. Every day is a new day. We thank God for what we are given, we drive our children to school, we buy the groceries our wives ordered, we do our tedious jobs and… and we make lemonade.

Count Your Blessings by Bracha Rapaport, Israel

Author: By Bracha Rapaport, Israel
Published: July 24, 2018
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Development, English, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Travel
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Sometimes I have those moments where I feel so lucky to be alive, I feel blessed to be a part of something greater than myself. That is what it was like for me to volunteer in Africa, a place truly impoverished and underdeveloped in relation to my country, Israel. Ever since 9th grade I had […]

Magnificence of Sidi Bou by Meriem Somai, Tunisia

Author: by Meriem Somai, Tunisia
Published: July 7, 2018
Categories: in Art, English, Identity, Photo Essays, Tunisia
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Tags: colors, Culture, discovertheregion, history, Inspiration, Travel, tunisia, YaLa Photo Essay

I would like to share with you my favorite pictures that I took with my phone. They reflect the oriental taste of the Middle Eastern and Northern African countries. After coming back from the United States, I started looking at my country, Tunisia, from a different perspective. I am proud that Tunisia is rich regarding […]

Chad by Meriem, Algeria (photo-essay)

Published: July 2, 2018
Categories: in Algeria, Art, Identity, Photo Essays, Travel
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Tags: #thinkactyala, discovertheregion, yala, YaLa Africa, YaLa Photo Essay, yala young leaders

Recently, I was lucky enough to be a part of the International Slam Festival in Tchad called N’Djam “s’enflamme en Slam’. It was a very unique experience in which I discovered the REAL AFRICA! I am also African, and the clichés about Africa being a poor, 3rd world country was not apparent to me in […]

Beauty in the Old by Aziza, Tunisia (photo-essay)

Published: May 21, 2018
Categories: in Photo Essays, Tunisia
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Tags: #thinkactyala, discovertheregion

Seasons by Hicham Azair – Tunisia [Photo Essay]

Published: March 6, 2018
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Photo Essays, Tunisia
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Tags: #thinkactyala, discovertheregion, landscape, morocco, photography, seasons, yalacampaign

The beauty of this place situated in my hometown “Ribat Elkhir, Morocco”,makes me memorize it in various seasons and compare the scenery. Nothing in this life is stable, everything is relative. As the photos show the same place but not the same view, humans can be changed suddenly, this changes can be observed in the […]

The history of Nabeul City, by Wassim Najjar – Tunisa [Photo Essay]

Published: February 13, 2018
Categories: in English, Identity, Photo Essays
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Tags: #thinkactyala, belonging, Culture, discovertheregion, history, monument, nabeul, tunisia, yalacampaign

I have chosen to show you the most famous and symbolic monuments of my city. These pictures represent our past, the roots of Nabeul. The gate arc which was the door of the city, the pottery jar with the gigantic tree planted in it, and the giant orange plate. For us,these monuments were there from […]

Photo Essay | Synagogues, by Andrew Pico, Israel

Author: By Andrew Pico, Israel
Published: February 5, 2018
Categories: in English, Identity, Israel, Photo Essays, Religion, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: #thinkactyala, Culture, decoration, diaspora, discovertheregion, disovertheregion, synagogues, tradition, yalacampaign

I noticed recently how modest synagogues usually are. They hardly ever have much decoration, and if they do it’s just a small picture here and there. The most elaborately decorated item is the cabinet where the Torah scrolls are stored, and even that is very simple. I noticed the difference more when I went into […]

Tunisia, my home by Siwar Terboubi, Tunisia – Photo Essay –

Published: January 22, 2018
Categories: in Identity
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Tags: #thinkactyala, arab, community, country, couscous, Culture, discovertheregion, Food, MENA, muslim, NorthAfrica, pride, region, Stereotypes, tradion, tradition, tunisia, Tunisian, tunisiantraditions

Here you will find pictures of Tunisia and some of its traditions. What can I possibly tell you about the country I’m proud to call HOME? Most of us dress like in Europe, we do, however, have a lot of beautiful traditional clothes that we wear on special occasions. We have, what I can judge […]

Zababdeh by George Da, Palestine

Published: January 3, 2018
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, English, Photo Essays
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Tags: #thinkactyala, byzantine, byzantinechurch, church, discovertheregion, palestine, photography, westbank, zabadeh

Zababdeh ( My village ) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) southeast of Jenin and 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Arab American University. The village of Zababdeh is home to about 3,000 inhabitants and is the only majority-Christian village in the northern West Bank, ruins found […]

FOOD by Avery Robinson, Israel – Photo Essay-

Published: December 26, 2017
Categories: in English, Photo Essays
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Tags: #thinkactyala, Culture, discovertheregion, Food, israel, MENA, MiddleEast, mufletas, palestine, streetfood, yalacampaign

I see a lot of food photography these days, and most of it, including my own, is of unblemished dishes. The ripest fruits, the most succulents heirloom vegetables, perfectly glazed and dusted sweets, etcetera etcetera. But what about the food we actually eat? What does that look like? We savor the uneaten perfection, but rarely […]

JARASH by Abd Al Rahman Al Hariri, Syria-Jordan

Published: December 26, 2017
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, English, Jordan, Photo Essays, Syria
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Tags: archeology, discovertheregion, historia, historic, jarash, jordan, yalacampaign

I am Abdelrahman from Daraa, Syria, I’ve moved to Jordan since 4 years now. I chose to take some photos of the historical city of Jarash- Jordan, i hope you will enjoy it! This is just one example of the important work produced YaLa’s citizen journalists, a program funded by the European Union’s Peacebuilding Initiative […]

One Day in the Revolution by Mostafa Amr from Egypt

Author: Mostafa Amr
Published: December 19, 2017
Categories: in Civil Activism, Egypt, English, Identity
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Tags: change, demonstration, discovertheregion, egypt, egyptrevolution, hope, tharirsquare, yalacampaign, youth

It was a customary tradition in our school to wear whatever you liked on the last day of every semester, so you didn’t have to wear the school uniform. As a result, everyone was trying their best to wear their most beautiful clothes . I was 14 years old. I remember that I had a […]

Jerusalem by John Emerezian, Israel

Author: John Emerezian
Published: December 5, 2017
Categories: in Art, Culture and Heritage, Identity, Photo Essays, Travel
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Tags: #thinkactyala, discovertheregion, jerusalem, market

Each and every stone of the old city reflexes historical and spiritual inspiration. Each souvenir shop provides the old city’s inheritance. The holiest of all cities. Unforgettable experience and indescribable feeling. This is just one example of the important work produced YaLa’s citizen journalists, a program funded by the European Union’s Peacebuilding Initiative in order […]

The Weird Tradition by Salman Ayash, Yemen

Published: November 20, 2017
Categories: in Identity, Photo Essays, Travel, Yemen
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Tags: #thinkactyala, celebrations, Culture, discovertheregion, Eid, Eidaladha, photography, Villagelife, yalacampaign, yemen

Like many of my friends and relatives, I cannot celebrate Eid Al-Adha (the Islamic festival of sacrifice) away from my birthplace, a small mountainous village in Ibb governorate, Yemen. There, the Eid has a different feel as many traditional games and activities are undertaken by the villagers during Eid days. Giving one example, is our […]

Wooden Blocks by Shany, Israel

Author: by Shany, Israel
Published: October 12, 2017
Categories: in English, Fall Semester 2016, Human Rights, Tolerance
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Tags: #thinkactyala, childhoodmemory, children, discovertheregion, enemytofriend, Friendship, goodandbad, Humanity, Ihaveadream, israel, reconciliation, rightandwrong, tolerance

“Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.” ~Nelson Mandela~ Let me take you back to one of my earliest memories as a […]

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