January 8, 2011
BY: Mkhaimar Abusada for Bitter Lemons The Arab Peace Initiative, which was adopted by the Arab League at its summit meeting in Beirut in 2002, is a comprehensive peace initiative first proposed by then-Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and re-endorsed at the Riyadh summit in 2007. The initiative attempts to end the Arab-Israel conflict, […]
November 20, 2010
BY: NISREEN GHANEM On one winter night, Israeli soldiers came to our village with dogs. They began searching for something but we didn’t know what. They reached our house at 2:30 in the morning. They jumped over the gate, then they knocked on the door loudly. We were not sleeping because we had heard bombs […]
November 19, 2010
BY: MUNA NU’MAN In May 2003, the Israeli occupation forces imposed a curfew on my village. The curfew continued for several days, they didn’t allow us to go anywhere. There was a food shortage, people needed essential things like bread, vegetables and milk for the children. While this was happening, the schools where my sons […]
November 18, 2010
BY: ALI ABU TAYEH In one semester during my study at the university in the West Bank, I had three consecutive exams. On the first exam day as I was going to the university, I faced a very hard army checkpoint. It was very crowded and the people were waiting in very long line. People […]
November 7, 2010
BY: AMJAD M. DWIKAT Amjad is a mechanical engineering student at An Najah University. This is the first solo video project for Amjad, who is hoping to combine his engineering work with his interests in the media and the environment. He plans to continue his education after a few years of work.
November 2, 2010
BY: HAYA SH. YASSIN Haya is studying journalism at An Najah University in Nablus, West Bank. In January 2011, she will begin her M.A. in Filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London. Here is her latest video from Nablus.
September 25, 2010
During the last three months, I taught a Spoken English class for adults who teach English to young people in Nablus and the surrounding villages. During the class, we had intense debates, told jokes and shared stories about our families and life experiences, from the loss of our parents and grandparents to personal stories about […]
September 14, 2010
In March 2009, I visited a friend’s home in Palestine. Her young daughter, Nadine, wrote the below poems. our country you look see feel but no u do look u do see but u do not feel stop pause and look around u see up and down every were no one wants u just go away. […]
