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A Child’s View from Gaza

posAdmin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:12:42 +0000

With beautiful, high-resolution print images of the exhibit, the book also features a special foreword by celebrated author, Alice Walker, as well as an essay by MECA Executive Director, Barbara Lubin, describing the struggle against the censorship.*

After displaying the children

Almond Blossoms and Beyond

posAdmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:42:25 +0000

Composed of brief lyric poems and the magnificent sustained Exilecycle, Almond Blossoms holds an important place in Darwish

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions – The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

posAdmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:46:44 +0000

International boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts helped topple South Africa

Gaza: Stay Human

posAdmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:37:40 +0000

by Vittorio Arrigoni, translated by Daniela Filippin

An authoritative and deeply moving eyewitness account of the terrible twenty-two-day Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009. These daily dispatches were written in precarious conditions, between bombing raids and intermittent Internet access. Vittorio Arrigoni ends his dispatches with the plea “stay human,” which became the motto of the peace protests in his native Italy. This English translation is updated with new entries reflecting on life in Gaza after the offensive and also features an introduction by famous Israeli historian Ilan Papp

Miral

posAdmin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:34:51 +0000

On her way to work on the morning of April 10, 1948, a young Palestinian woman named Hind Husseini came across fifty-five children who had been unloaded from an Israeli army truck near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. They were the survivors of a massacre that took place in their village, Deir Yassin. It was the beginning of the war of 1948.

Hind brought them to her family home and quickly decided to establish an orphanage. It was given the name Dar El-Tifel, Children’s Home. She sold all of her familial possessions and her school became an oasis to hundreds of orphans. Today, three thousand girls attend Dar El-Tifel.

At the age of five, Miral was left at the orphanage after her mother, Nadia, committed suicide. Jamal, Miral’s father, decided that Hind was the ideal mentor, teacher, and surrogate mother for his daughter. At the age of sixteen, when the First Intifada was simmering, Miral was assigned to teach at a refugee camp in Ramallah. The horrors she witnessed there changed her life forever and brought her closer to the history of violence and personal struggle that seemed to be her family’s legacy.

Miral is the tale of a nation told through the family history of four women whose destinies are unexpectedly intertwined, and against the backdrop of the story of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As the tension of the First Intifada rises, Miral, like many of those of her generation, feels the deep injustice and becomes politically active. She finds herself at a crossroads, where she must decide between violence and education as the best way to achieve peace. Hind sees enormous potential in Miral and does her best to steer her toward education. Five years later in 1993, the two sides finally stop looking at each other from behind a gun and start negotiations that lead to the signing of the peace agreement. At the same time two girls, one Israeli, one Palestinian, sit together on the beach talking about their future.

This extraordinary story provides remarkable insight into the struggles of Palestinian women navigating the turbulent political and personal waters of their country from 1948 to1993. The book describes the fragile steps that must be taken by a young woman whose courage and sense of responsibility push her to find justice for her people. This is a story about a dream of freedom, hope, and the love of a country. It’s about a young girl making her own destiny.

My Father Was a Freedom Fighter – Gaza’s Untold Story

posAdmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:59:55 +0000

by Ramzy Baroud

Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and rarely out of the news, this book explores the daily lives of the people in the region, giving us an insight into what is at risk in each round of violence.

Ramzy Baroud tells his father’s fascinating story. Driven out of his village to a refugee camp, he took up arms and fought the occupation at the same time raising a family and trying to do the best for his children. Baroud’s vivid and honest account reveals the complex human beings; revolutionaries, great moms and dads, lovers, and comedians that make Gaza so much more than just a disputed territory.

About the Author
Ramzy Baroud

Nakba

posAdmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:21:53 +0000

This booklet is a concise description and history of invasion, displacement, and mass imprisonment that have continued to the present day, blocking all efforts at justice, equal rights and peace.

One Country – A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse

posAdmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:53:02 +0000

Clear-eyed, sharply reasoned, and compassionate, One Country proposes a radical alternative: to revive the neglected idea of one state shared by two peoples. Taking on the objections and taboos that stand in the way of a binational solution, he demonstrates that sharing the territory will bring benefits for all.

Palestine & Palestinians

posAdmin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:43:48 +0000

The book sets out to facilitate visits to Palestine for tourists who wish to increase their understanding and even work with Palestinians and Israelis towards a just, viable peace. At the same time, it provides enough material for those readers who prefer to travel far and wide in the comfort of their own armchairs.

Palestine Sixty Years Later

posAdmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:45:57 +0000

Although its focus, inevitably, is on the realities of life under siege and Occupation, the author depicts side-by-side the "other" Palestine, people living their own lives as best they can under that reality, refusing to be defined by it.