January 20, 2011
I’ve lived in the Holy Land for the last seven months. This is my last week in Bethlehem before I head to India for a month, so I’ve been taking care of business. My apartment is nearly packed up: a pile of donations, a pile to leave with friends and a pile to take with […]
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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. Â 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. Â People […]
November 16, 2010
“I like it because it tells people outside of Palestine that we are good people,†said 14 year old Mujahid who took part in making the movie. “It helps to show that we are not terrorists.†Read the entire article here at Haaretz.
November 7, 2010
BY: AMJAD M. DWIKAT Amjad is a mechanical engineering student at An Najah University. Â 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. Â He plans to continue his education after a few years of work.
November 2, 2010
My friend Ayyash took me on a tour of Balata Camp, the refugee camp where he lives only minutes from downtown Nablus. Here, in 2 square kilometers, live 28,000 people, said Ayyash. He said that the unemployment rate is 70%. Â Those who are employed, often work in shops inside the camp. Â Most of the refugees […]
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.
October 30, 2010
Warm, gooey kunafeh, an expansive new university campus and a vibrant Old City.
September 29, 2010
When I hear the cadence of a drum squad, my heart skips a beat remembering my days in marching band at Dallastown High School. I loved marching through the parking lot to the football field to the beat of the school’s cadence. Today, while walking through downtown Nablus, I heard the enticing sound of drums […]
