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 [...]
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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″
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 [...]
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A New Generation of Returnees: The Challenges in Memory Projects with Refugee Youth in Lebanon
“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 [...]
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