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"I Spent A Day in an Israeli Prison"
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"I Spent A Day in an Israeli Prison"

Italian artist Jorit painted a mural of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamim! while visting Jerusalem. He was jailed for it, and he Is banned from entering Israel for ten years

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January 11, 2024
Occupation Stories
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Occupation Stories

A collection of plays by Palestinian theatre groups about the daily lives of people in wartime in their homeland'

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5 mins  |
January 11, 2024
Static Frames of Turbulence
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Static Frames of Turbulence

The flair and flourish of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman

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5 mins  |
January 11, 2024
Palestine Outside Gaza: TWO EXPERIENCES
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Palestine Outside Gaza: TWO EXPERIENCES

Irrespective of how the current situation plays out, the Palestinian spirit is too deeply entrenched to be defeated

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7 mins  |
January 11, 2024
UNHOLY WAR
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UNHOLY WAR

Violence destroys the conscience and renders us captive to the reptilian mind within

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7 mins  |
January 11, 2024
"Resistance is at the Core of Our Identity"
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"Resistance is at the Core of Our Identity"

Rifat Kassis, a Christian Palestinian human rights activist, author, and speaker, who is presently living in the West Bank, feels Israel is paving the road for another Nakba

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January 11, 2024
The Olive Tree
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The Olive Tree

Artist and writer Ghia Haddad on Palestinian children and hope

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January 11, 2024
"Like Seeds, We will Continue"
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"Like Seeds, We will Continue"

Reem Anbar, a Palestinian oud player and a music therapist from Gaza, has been telling stories about her land and the ongoing war through her performances across Europe

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January 11, 2024
'We are Packing for Exile ... or Death'
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'We are Packing for Exile ... or Death'

In the first week of December, the Aljazzar family was preparing for its forced emigration from Gaza. They didn't know what to pack in their small backpacks

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January 11, 2024
"I See a Circle of Light"
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"I See a Circle of Light"

Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan's poems sing of losing the war and living for love

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January 11, 2024
'Even Before the War, Life Was Very Hard'
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'Even Before the War, Life Was Very Hard'

Cartoonist and visual artist Mohammad Sabaaneh was imprisoned in an Israeli prison for six months because his art depicts how Palestinians suffer Israeli atrocities daily

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January 11, 2024
"Women of Gaza Are Holding On, But For How Long?"
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"Women of Gaza Are Holding On, But For How Long?"

What is happening in Gaza now is a backward step in every way for the feminist movement, says Farah Barqawi, a Palestinian feminist, performer and poet, pursuing an MFA degree in non-fiction creative writing in Brooklyn

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January 11, 2024
'The Nakba Has Not Ended Yet'
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'The Nakba Has Not Ended Yet'

Palestinian artist Ahmed ElKhalidi, who lives in Adelaide, uses his art to make people aorund him become more aware of the Palestinian issue

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January 11, 2024
'My Death Should Not be Passing News'
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'My Death Should Not be Passing News'

A promising novelist and an engineer, Noor Aldeen Hajjaj, wrote this piece barely one month before he was killed in Israeli bombing on December 3 in Gaza

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January 11, 2024
"No, it Did Not Begin on October 7"
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"No, it Did Not Begin on October 7"

Khaled Abuqare says as an activist, it has been difficult to put the Palestinian perspective on the table because in the initial weeks of the war, the focus was on the Israeli perspective

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January 11, 2024
Steadfast in Exile
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Steadfast in Exile

A Palestinian lawyer returns to Ramallah only to become an 'internal exile'

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January 11, 2024
Jewish-Muslim Relations: A Journey Through Legends, Time and Faith
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Jewish-Muslim Relations: A Journey Through Legends, Time and Faith

Before the 20th century, Jewish history books were replete with accounts of the generosity of Muslim rulers who had granted them religious and social freedoms and saved them from the savageries of the West

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January 11, 2024
Visually Speaking
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Visually Speaking

A clutch of Palestinian films masterfully use the visual motifs of the West Bank barriers and Israeli checkpoints to capture the cruelties of war

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January 11, 2024
"We Want Bread Back into Our Lives"
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"We Want Bread Back into Our Lives"

Hind Khoudary, who is associated with the World Food Programme in Gaza, recounts hard days in the Gaza Strip during and after the brief humanitarian pause

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January 11, 2024
'The Olive Tree Does Not Cry or Laugh'
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'The Olive Tree Does Not Cry or Laugh'

Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish’s works are seeped in the sights and sounds and sorrows of his beloved homeland. Placed under house arrest in his youth for his political activism and poetry, Mahmoud spent 26 years of his life in exile, between Paris and Beirut. Palestinian cities and villages, lakes and rivers, orange trees and olive groves, garlic and wheat and bread—pivotal symbols of Palestinian culture and history found a place in the poet in exile’s writing. He explored the themes of belonging and displacement, identity and alienation, giving a powerful and passionate voice to the Palestinian struggle. “My homeland is not a suitcase,” he declared. Calling all Palestinians to resist occupation and colonisation, he wrote, “This land promises wheat and stars…We are its wound, but a wound that fights.”

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January 11, 2024
"Who Will be Killed Next?"
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"Who Will be Killed Next?"

Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish lost three of his daughters when Israel bombed his house in Gaza. He is now a voice for peace and freedom

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January 11, 2024
"No Help Was In Sight"
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"No Help Was In Sight"

Zak used to work in a mall close to Al Shati refugee camp before he and his family fled to escape Israeli attacks

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January 11, 2024
"My Daughters are Frightened"
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"My Daughters are Frightened"

Nour Harazeen, a journalist, left Gaza along with her family a few weeks ago. Her five-year-old twin daughters are bewildered by the devastation they see all around

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January 11, 2024
"Why Do They Bomb Us?"
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"Why Do They Bomb Us?"

Four-year-old Salma often wakes up late at night crying violently. She stares at the smoke of the bombing until it fades away and asks. \"People died?\"

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January 11, 2024
"The Sky Seems to be Weeping"
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"The Sky Seems to be Weeping"

Haya Abu Nasser, a human rights activist and writer from Gaza, was slated to depart for Malaysia on October 17 to study international relations. These days, she is yearning for a cup of coffee and the routine melody of life

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January 11, 2024
CAPTURING War-torn Gaza
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CAPTURING War-torn Gaza

Representing and reporting the truth about the atrocities in Gaza could have been a redemptive moment for photojournalism

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January 11, 2024
The Dream of Peace
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The Dream of Peace

Iranian-French photographer Manoocher Deghati arrives in Palestine in 1994 to capture key moments such as the return of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. In Eyewitnessed, Ursula Janssen chronicles Deghati's perilious journey

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January 11, 2024
The 'Inner Monastery'
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The 'Inner Monastery'

Author, scholar and thinker Hussein Barghouthi, diagnosed with lymphoma, returns to his childhood countryside near Ramallah in Palestine after thirty years in 'exile'. Among the Almond Trees is a poignant, lyrical, philosophical reflection on life and death, art and politics, love and hope. This excerpt is about a monastery atop a mountain he used to visit as a child.

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January 11, 2024
"We are the Living Dead of Gaza"
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"We are the Living Dead of Gaza"

Every day since October 7, Zainab AI Ghonaimy has woken up in her home in the besieged Gaza City and the first thing she has done is check her Internet connection. It has become an essential means of survival for Zainab, who has been using it to broadcast her daily journal to the world.

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January 11, 2024
A Rose Shoulders Up
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A Rose Shoulders Up

Don't ever be surprised to see a rose shoulder up among the ruins of the house: This is how we survived.

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January 11, 2024