Contributed by Mary Nasser on 11.06.2012:
From our heritage in Bethlehem
Watermelon with Cheese (Jibneh webattikh)
This is a light summer supper dish very popular in Palestine. I had it very often growing up in Bethlehem on warm summer days. The white salted cheese complements the sweetness of the watermelon. Add to it a piece of fresh and warm Palestinian pita bread “Kmaj” to produce a superb taste that you will never (...)
Contributed by Arab Educational Institute on 07.06.2012:
http://ireland.anglican.org/about/144
(via Mazin Qumsiyeh, Beit Sahour)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 29.05.2012:
The Paintings of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
By George Al Ama and Nada Atrash
TWIP
May 2012
The Palestinian Nakba in 1948 and the rapid succession of events in its aftermath have undoubtedly left their mark on the various aspects of life in Palestine, including the literary and artistic movements. During the few years before the Nakba, the art movement witnessed a rapid ev(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 29.05.2012:
By Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour
This Week in Palestine
May 2012
I was born Palestinian, and I don’t want to do anything to change this.
I was born in a refugee camp, in my own country, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I was born under occupation, and I will do everything possible or impossible to change this.
The culture and history of nations is p(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 29.05.2012:
By Ibrahim Matar
This Week in Palestine
May 2012
“I plowed Palestine into earth by ordering the demolition of 300 abandoned Palestinian villages from the Negev to the Galilee.” This is a statement made by Ra’anan Weitz, the director of the Jewish Agency’s Settlement Department in 1948 in an interview in the Jerusalem Post dated March 7, 1997. Over the ruins of these villa(...)
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 This Week In Palestine on 29.05.2012:
This Week in Palestine
May 2012
Life in the occupied Palestinian territories remains harsh. Within the wider context of daily survival, little emphasis is placed on the needs of people with disabilities.
It was amidst this turmoil and these difficult living conditions that Mr. Edmund Shehadeh, who comes from a prominent family in Beit Jala in the Bethlehem District, start(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 29.05.2012:
By Suhail Khalilieh
This Week in Palestine
May 2012
These words are not to list the consequences of Al-Nakba, the numbers of refugees and villages destroyed, the amount of land taken, etc., but more to shed light on the Palestinian spirit following 1948. This article addresses how Al-Nakba has influenced the lives of Palestinians, positively and otherwise, and also sends (...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 29.05.2012:
Post-Nakba Euphemisms and Humour Al-Hijrah, Salamah, and Wadha
By Dr. Ali Qleibo
This Week in Palestine
May 2012
If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
To build a house outside the refugee camp is a critical decision. Almost seven decades have passed since the hijrah, the forced migration, and over three g(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 28.05.2012:
By Riyam Kafri-AbuLaban
This Week in Palestine
May 2012
Rayya’s household of four brothers (Nooh, Idrees, Ibrahim, and Ilias), a sister, a mother (Im Nooh), and a father (Abu Nooh) changed faster than you can say Palestine. It was a breezy spring morning in 1948 when everything transformed in a discontinuous moment in time. Rayya, today, is seventy-eight years old and pac(...)