Category Archives: Active Memory

O Home of Evergreen Trees

By admin | Published: November 7, 2009

“Ya darna yamm al-shadjar lkhzar” Palestinian folktales & songs remembered & compiled after half a century of living in exile. Proceeds will support the work of an ngo working with Palestinian children in Gaza Strip

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Our Country Why Have You Fortaken Us – Ya baldna Leish Hajartina

By admin | Published: April 1, 2003

Ya baldna Leish Hajartina “our country why have you fortaken us” focused on part on answering the questions that we collected from children and youth, (the 4th generation of refugee children), about the uprooting of 1948.

Also posted in Active Learning & Creative Expression, Books | Tagged 1948, Creativity, Resilience, Uprooting | Comments closed

Al-Jana Al-English #2, May 2002

By admin | Published: May 2, 2002

Editorial The history of palestinian Oral History: Individual Vitality and Institutional Paralysis by Rosemary Sayigh Interviews Gaby Abed, recorded in Yafa, October 26,1998 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, recorded in Ramallah June 12, 2000 Jamil Arafat, recorded in Mashhad, April 14, 2000

Also posted in Magazines, Resource Center | Tagged Gaby Abed, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Jamil Arafat, Mashhad, Oral History, Ramallah, Rosemary Sayigh, Yafa | Comments closed

Sukar Yafa

By admin | Published: February 1, 2002

“I dreamt that my grandmother held me by the hand and flew with me to Palestine.” She looked down and said “This is our village my grandson.” I descended and she continued her flight.