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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 […]

Video | International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition by By Hadeel, Palestine & the YaLa Alumni

Author: By Hadeel, Palestine
Published: August 23, 2018
Categories: in Arabic, Civil Activism, Current Events, English, French, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Palestine, Tolerance, Tunisia, Videos
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Tags: history, Humanity, Memorial Day

Being traded and treated as a slave is the worst humiliation one can imagine, and the slave trade is one of the most heinous crimes the world is still trying to eradicate. Every human is bestowed with humanity from the moment of their birth. But it is in the human nature of some to try […]

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 […]

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 […]

The ‘Old City’ of Nablus by ASEEL S. SALMAN [Photo Essay]

Published: July 5, 2017
Categories: in English, Latest Articles, Media, Photo Essays
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Tags: #eupeacebuildinginitiative, #thinkactyala, architecture, Culture, discovertheregion, history, naplus, oldcity, palestine, photography, yalacampaign

PALESTINE — The most beautiful place in Nablus is the Old City. Not only does the old city have a great historical legacy, but it has a special taste that cannot be replicated.

Going to Eden by Yair Arieli, Israel – photo essay –

Published: May 29, 2017
Categories: in Identity, Photo Essays, Travel
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Tags: Abraham, Eden, history, turkey

“A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters… The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.” (Genesis 2) A time came when my friends started leaving the nest and touring the world. I remember thinking […]

Nabatean Civilization by Ashraf, Palestine – photo essay –

Published: April 26, 2017
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Human Rights, Identity, Photo Essays, Tolerance
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Tags: coexistence, diversity, history, hope, identity, IsraelPalestine, nabatean, peace activism, tolerance, yalayoungleaders

From the north of Damascus to the south of Ola, and from the east of Sham and Naqab to Gaza and Sinai, they built an Empire. The Nabateans were smart people. They worked on copper mining , agriculture, and trade. They established sophisticated systems and lifestyles in this region thousands of years ago. At the time, these […]

A Trip To The Past – An inteview of my grandparents- by Noa Bar, Israel

Published: April 5, 2017
Categories: in English, Human Rights
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Tags: change, children, family, grandparents, history, kibbutz, memories, socialism

I was sitting in my room on a Friday evening in my apartment in London. Curtains shut, my bag thrown on the floor as I came back from university with laundry waiting to be folded on my bed. Wrapped in a blanket, I reached for my computer and called my grandparents on Skype. I thought […]

Perceiving Gender Equality, by Ala Oueslati, Tunisia

Published: April 2, 2017
Categories: in Civil Activism, Education, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights
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Tags: #yalaalumni, change, diversity, Feminism, genderequality, history, tolerance, tunisia, women

Humans have always adjusted to the needs of their communities and societies throughout history. These adjustments shaped the way we live and changed our perception of life. In modern history, everyone played a role in making adjustments and coping with the rapidly-changing circumstances of our world, because isolation was no longer an option. The interaction […]

About Borders and Prejudice, by Marwa from Sudan

Published: March 1, 2017
Categories: in English, Human Rights, Sudan
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Tags: Borders, history, love, sudan

It is said that where we find our hearts, we find our homes, but I see it as a limitation to hearts as well as to homes, just like limiting lands with borders and calling them countries. This is not a story of love and prejudice, but rather of geopolitics and globalization. It begins in […]

Hanukkah in the Holy Land: Darkness and light in a changing Israel by Ofek Ravid

Published: January 11, 2017
Categories: in English, Human Rights, Identity
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Tags: hannuka, history, holidays, israel, maccabee, tolerance, tradition

Hanukkah, or the festival of lights, is celebrated yearly on the 25th of Kislev on the Jewish Calendar. Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and is not a holiday with any strict commandments. It was added to our collective cannon by the Jewish Sages and the holiday has become one of modern Judaism’s […]

Story of Persecuted Women of Colour by Ala Oueslati from Tunisia and V. Mcentee from England

Published: September 27, 2015
Categories: in English, Gender and LGBTQ
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Tags: black women, discrimination, Feminism, gender equality, history, prejudice, racial discrimination, racism, sexism, skin, tunisia, women of colour, women rights

This blog post is a collaboration between Ala Oueslati and V. Mcentee History has proven that women all over the world have always been subject to discrimination, rejection, marginalization, and perfectly-shown misogynistic attitudes in all aspects of life. Even in the societies that have achieved remarkable progress in human rights and gender equality, women are […]

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