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haq alawda Displaying items by tag: Culture of Return
Displaying items by tag: Culture of Return
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 14:17
Interview: Ahmad Abughoush: "Imwas : Canada Park's Concealed Crime "
The Palestinian village of Imwas, together with the villages of Yalu and Beit Nuba, were razed to the ground in the 1967 war. In the mid-1970s, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) used donations from its Canadian branch to establish Canada Park on the lands of the three villages. We spoke with Ahmad Abughoush, president of Lajnet Ahali Imwas (Imwas Society) about the plight of the village, the villagers, and their attempts to return home.
Published in
Jewish National Fund (Winter-Spring 2010)
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 11:11
Badil Launches Fourth Annual Al-Awda Award
We are from there...We are Alive and Will Continue to Live... and the Dream Lives On
Bethlehem, Palestine, 13 October 2009 – The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights has announced the launch of the 2010 Annual Al-Awda Awards competition, now in its fourth consecutive year. The Award is an initiative of Badil which aims to provide a platform for the use of creative expression to promote Palestinian cultural identity and Palestinian refugee rights, foremost among them the right to return.
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:58
Book Review of Hoffman's My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
Adina Hoffman writes in a gripping rich language and with a charming poetic flare. Her avid documentary precision makes her obvious love for the subject of her biographical account and for his family, his surroundings and his people almost suspect, were such evil thoughts not rendered meaningless by her fidelity to the deeper nuances of Taha Muhammad Ali’s deceptively simple and un-classical poetry.
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:50
Child Authors Reflect on Writing Flying Home
by Sadeel al-Azzeh, Balqees Nafez al-Refai, Majd al-Khawaja & Maan Abu Aker
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:44
Book Review: Flying Home
Flying Home is a touching new children's story produced by youth from Lajee Cultural Center in Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, in collaboration with Rich Wiles, a British artist.
Thirty pages in length and illustrated with fifteen full-page photographs taken by the children themselves, Flying Home is a complete package. It is exceptionally well produced, an educational tool for young readers of both English and Arabic, and combines a powerful, human message that is neither culturally specific nor heavy-handed in its delivery.
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:32
How do we say Nakba in Hebrew? Reflections on teaching Jews in Israel about the Nakba
How should the topic of the Palestinian right of return be dealt with by the Israeli educational system? How should it be approached when the reality in Israel is that the topic is one “we don’t talk about”? How can we start a conversation, get people to listen, overcome objections?
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:31
Reflections on the Badil “Palestinian Refugees under International Law” Course
Intent on introducing Palestine's future legal cadre to a rights-based approach to the Palestinian refugee question, Badil entered a partnership agreement with al-Quds University in the fall of 2007. Since then, Badil's course on “Palestinian refugees under international law” has been one of the courses offered to law students, with larger numbers enrolling each semester. The target group of the Badil law course is university students, particularly law students interested in human rights. It is expected that law students, as part of the student movement that has historically played a major role in the national struggle, will influence their community and contribute to the right of return movement.
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:20
Teaching Culture and Resistance, from Brooklyn to Palestine
The same ground you walk on, we do too…
These words, excerpted from a poem written by Tyeema, one of our students, and translated into Arabic for a mural now hanging in Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus, speak to a journey we have been making with students and educators in Brooklyn for the past three years.
Drawing on popular education models, and making use of grassroots media tools such as digital stories, hip-hop tracks and poster art, the Palestine Education Project (PEP) teaches a class we call “Slingshot Hip Hop: Culture and Resistance from Brooklyn to Palestine” at a small alternative high school.
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:55
Hearing Obama: How to Introduce an Authentic History of Contemporary Palestine Into the American High School
"...I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts..."
- U.S. President Barak Obama in Cairo, June 4, 2009
“Palestine is not just an Arabic and Islamic question: it is important to many different and contradictory worlds that intersect one another. Working for Palestine means being necessarily aware of such open dimensions… As Mandela kept saying during his own struggle, we must be aware of the fact that Palestine is one of the foremost moral issues of our time.”
- Edward Said, 2002
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:40
The Prison as University: The Palestinian Prisoners' Movement and National Education
Let me start by saying that the role of the Palestinian prisoners' movement in educating its cadre, and thereby contributing to Palestinian “national education” is a large topic, and one worthy of much more discussion and research. As a Palestinian political prisoner who has spent the past twenty years in Israeli jails I would like to highlight some of the general characteristics of the prisoners' movement's struggle to build a system of self and collective education as a central part of developing a patriotic and revolutionary culture that can be a pillar of the liberation movement.
Published in
Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)
