Tag Archives: Resilience

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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Theatre & War

By admin | Published: January 30, 2010
July 14th, 2006 Israel launches a massive attack on Lebanon that ended in displacing more than one million persons. During the 33 days war some families take refugee in a theater in the capital city of Beirut. This film shows the transformative ability of the arts and its healing powers.
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Nahr El Bared Activities, 2007

By admin | Published: July 4, 2007
In May 2007, fighting broke out in Nahr el Bared camp near Tripoli (northern Lebanon) between Fatah al Islam, an Islamist group, and the Lebanese Armed Forces. The conflict evolved to the siege of Nahr el Bared, home to around 30,000 Palestinian refugees.
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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.
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