Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 29.05.2012:
This Week in Palestine
May 2012
A History of Hope and Empowerment
By Mazin B. Qumsiyeh
Pluto Press (London), 2011, 320 pages, $20.00
Arabic edition, Muwatin
Soon to be available in French, German, and Italian.
Over two-thirds of the 10 million native Palestinians in the world are refugees or displaced people. This reality, like all other simila(...)
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 14.04.2012:
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Photos of Solomon's Pools and the Convent of the Hortus Conclusus can be found on a couple of pages in this lovely coffee table type book by the creators of www.palestine.ps, one of the first visually appealing and evocative websites in the Palestinian Tourism sector which appeared back in 2008. The Artas Folklore Center and the Artas Lettuce Festival is also me(...)
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 07.04.2012:
WALKING PALESTINE by Stefan Szepesi
VISIT PALESTINE by www.visit palestine.ps.
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Until recently, few Palestinian villages were mentioned in mainstream guidebooks. There was an almost exclusive focus on(...)
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 07.04.2012:
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There is a huge body of scholarly literature on Artas dating back to the early twentieth century.More recently, Falestin Naili, Virtual Scholar in Residence, has written many works reviewing older works and breaking new ground. In fact we were quite surprised to find the Artas Folklore Center itself under her scholarly lens.Below is only a(...)
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 07.04.2012:
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Recommended Books and Articles for the Cultivated and Culturally Curious General Reader
Select Bibliography on Artas
Artas in Guidebooks
A Folklore Sampler
This is just to get you started. We cannot keep up with listing all the man(...)
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 05.04.2012:
The Artas Folklore Center is proud to announce that a chapter has been devoted to Artas in the recent publication of WALKING PALESTINE, 25 JOURNEYS INTO THE WEST BANK BY STEFAN SZEPESI. This remarkable work is bound to increase interest in hiking in Palestine; it has an app(...)
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 04.04.2012:
The Artas Folklore Center so much wants to share the special heritage of its village that it is making available special notebooks in two formats. More information below image.
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Artas Notebook:
A 40 page, 6×9 inches (15×23 centimeters) souvenir notebook featuring scenes of the village of Artas near Bethlehem and blank pages to record your impressio(...)
Contributed by Artas Folklore Center on 31.03.2012:
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Thanks to the many scholars and others who have lived in and studied Artas, almost every aspect of the village has been studied. Here are a few recommendations for the general reader. More academic sources are provided in the entry entitled "Select (...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 22.02.2012:
SUMUD: Soul of the Palestinian People: Reflections and Experiences
Toine van Teeffelen, with Victoria Biggs and the Sumud Story House in Bethlehem
Arab Educational Institute
Culture and Palestine series
Bethlehem 2012
Two central chapters:
Chapter 5. A living and human ideal
When the word ‘sumud’ began to appear in discussion during the 1970s a(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 01.11.2011:
Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
TWIP November 2011
By Nada Atrash
As Rochelle Davis-an assistant professor of anthropology at the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University-was involved in her research into the narrative of Palestinian life before 1948, she came across books that documented life in destroyed villages in Pales(...)