Author Archives: Moa'taz Dajani

A Tale of two Camps Liberating Life

By Moa'taz Dajani | Published: July 30, 2010
A tale of two camps liberating life Two Epics from the Palestinian camps in Lebanon that focus on ‘people in community‘ liberating life from oppression, discrimination and marginalization: from direct military occupation to institutional agendas of NGOs, donors and state, who attempt to confiscate people’s agency. During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 1982, [...]
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A New Generation of Returnees: The Challenges in Memory Projects with Refugee Youth in Lebanon

By Moa'taz Dajani | Published: March 3, 2010
“What use is it to remember now?” These were the words of some Palestinian elders, as a response to our field team questions regarding the recalling of the expulsions of 1948, a project that AL-JANA undertook in the year 1998, the 50th since the “Uprooting”. “Nobody teaches us history” This is the comment made by a group of [...]
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