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Diary of a Palestinian Exile’ in Cape Town: Reflections and Connections

By Rabee | Published: May 31, 2010
Diary of a Palestinian Exile’ in Cape Town: Reflections and Connections   Bradly, while driving me from the airport to Cape Town said: “Don’t believe everything you see, the truth is buried much deeper” His words prepared me for what was to come.   “The first thing that you have to experience here is the District Six Museum,” was [...]
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AL-JANA Center is Seeking a Volunteer: “Ein El-Helwat: Stories of Empowerment and Social Transformation lived by the Women of Ein al-Hilweh 1982-1984″

By hicham | Published: April 13, 2010
AL-JANA center is seeking a volunteer /intern to help in the transcription, indexing, and digitalizing of its active memory archives of Palestinian oral history and culture in exile. “Ein El-Helwat: Stories of Empowerment and Social Transformation lived by the Women of Ein al-Hilweh 1982-1984″ “Our house was totally destroyed like the other homes of the camp and [...]
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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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