Contributed by Terra Sancta School For Girls on 02.09.2006:
New Jordan Research Institute
Conference on Social and Women’s History
August 16-18, 2005
Amman, Jordan
ORAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY:
PERSPECTIVES ON THE STATE-OF-THE-ART
by
Thomas M. Ricks, Ph.D.
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
USA
“History is a process, an argument, and is compos(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 29.08.2006:
Edited by Sylvia Auld and Robert Hillenbrand
Altajir World of Islam Trust, London, 2000, 1168 pages
This is not a book to be thrown into one’s backpack for reading while sun-tanning on the beach or lazying on the lawn in the garden. This is a serious publication that is too heavy to be carried around. The two-part tome makes for an invaluable reference book on Jerusalem, its his(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 14.07.2006:
Old City of Jerusalem Revitalisation Plan
Welfare Association/Old City of Jerusalem Revitalisation Programme
Ramallah, 2003
This publication is the updated English version of the first Palestinian-initiated development plan for the Old City of Jerusalem, originally published in Arabic in 2002. It forms a dynamic and practical guideline for the comprehensive revitalizatio(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 26.06.2006:
RESILIENCE IN THE PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (2)
Toine van Teeffelen, Hania Bitar and Saleem Habash
THE STORY OF PYALARA
Pyalara was established in 1999, initially with the aim to serve a Palestinian youth audience as a youth media and communications–oriented non-governmental organization. It was an initiative by a group of youth journalists who were determined to g(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 26.06.2006:
THE MEDIA AND PALESTINE
Toine van Teeffelen
As a guide and consultant living in Bethlehem, Palestine, I have regularly coordinated visits of groups of Westerners coming over to see Palestinian reality with their own eyes. Almost always those visitors felt afterwards that what they saw did not correspond with the image of Palestinian reality they had before. Somehow the impact an(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 23.06.2006:
SUMUD REVISITED
Paper presented at the Celebrating Nonviolence Conference in Bethlehem, December 27-30, 2005
By Toine van Teeffelen, Arab Educational Institute-Open Windows, Bethlehem
COMMENTS ARE WELCOME: tvant@p-ol.com
Historical meaning of sumud
Who does not know and who is not startled by the stories of Palestinian civilians whose houses have been demoli(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 23.06.2006:
(Ex)communicating Palestine: From Bestselling Terrorist Fiction to Real-Life Personal Accounts
Toine van Teeffelen
Studies of the Novel, Vol 36, number 3 (Fall 2004)
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[This text is relevant for PFN in so far it analyzes the need for developing stories about Palestinian daily life, including diaries, for the purpose of "communicating Palestine" effect(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 20.06.2006:
A Colourful Personality of a Bygone Era
The recent publication of the Jawhariyyeh memoirs on Ottoman Jerusalem is an occasion to highlight the life of an eccentric and profoundly original citizen of the Holy City. Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1898-1972) was one of Jerusalem's most illustrious citizens: composer, oud player, poet, and chronicler. Jawhariyyeh's memoirs span a period of sixty year(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 17.06.2006:
A Palestinian Story Verso, London, 2002, 451 pages, $26.00
By Ghada Karmi
Ghada Karmi's book tells the dramatic story of her search for personal and political identity. Her family was forced out of their comfortable West Jerusalem home by Jewish attacks meant to rid the area of Palestinians beginning in January 1948. Finally, the infamous Deir Yassin massacre of April 9, 1948 m(...)
Contributed by Arab Educational Institute on 23.05.2006:
An Exploratory Analysis conducted on the base of stories collected at the Arab Educational Institute, Bethlehem, October-November 2000
The following is an overview of different types of stories told in the Bethlehem and Hebron region (Palestine) during what has become known as the “Al Aqsa Intifada.” Most are stories that have circulated widely within the local communities. The purpose(...)