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Ashtar Theatre: self-love and resistance through performance
| August 13, 2018
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Ashtar was the first theatre organisation to open in Palestine, and while the outside world constantly tries to politicise Palestinian art, the students more greatly appreciate the tools they can take from theatre to use in their every day lives; such as confidence, friendship building and expression of self.
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Australian graffiti artist to hold workshop in Bethlehem
| October 15, 2017
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The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem will host a graffiti master class with ‘the world’s most entertaining vandal,’ LushSux, at the end of October. The graffiti artist from Melbourne, Australia is well known for his large, provocative, street murals and more recently his painting on the Israeli – West Bank wall in Bethlehem.
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Nablus rap: self-expression as resistance
| May 10, 2017
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Bahaa Jper, a young artist from Nablus, told us how living under occupation got in the way of his passion for music. But he does not absolve his own society of criticism: “Freedom of movement is just a right, and the people of Palestine have stopped dreaming about what they want to do with that right.”
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Turning waste into everyday art
| May 09, 2017
 | ReSign for Recycling Design, an "upcycling" initiative, is committed to transforming trash into functional items with aesthetic appeal. The project is at the forefront of Palestine’s environmental movement.
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Ramallah dance festival explores the theme of exile
| May 02, 2017
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The 2017 Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival opened on April 20 with a symbolic ‘Welcoming the Stranger’ dance. The festival spanned 10 days and consisted of a repertoire of fascinating and international shows from Indonesia to Norway and Palestine.
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Against a hard surface
| April 21, 2017
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To coincide with the opening of the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, Palestine Monitor went backstage with one of the participating dance companies, the Yaa Samar! Dance Theater (YSDT). Their piece uses "walls" as a metaphor for the barriers people impose on themselves, as well as those inflicted by the occupation.
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The Sufis of Nablus
| November 27, 2016
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In the corkscrew lanes of Nablus’ medieval centre, just a few steps from the austere beauty of the grand mosque, there is a low room with some plastic chairs and rich carpet. At first glance, it looks the same as any other Muslim holy place. But this room is actually a tekyeh, home to the Naqshbandi sect of Sufism.
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Women’s film festival showcases Palestinian optimism
| November 19, 2016
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Running until December 11, the Shashat festival is the longest running women’s film festival in the Arab world. Ninety screenings will take place in seventeen cities around the West Bank and Gaza. Two refugee camps are also hosting events.
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From Beijing to Ramallah: Chinese medicine comes to Palestine
| November 02, 2016
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Green tea, Taoism, acupuncture. Where do you expect to find these hallmarks of traditional Chinese medicine? Shanghai? Guangdong? Maybe some bohemian corner of Paris or Berlin? The Palestine Monitor spoke with Chinese-trained Ousama Habiballah, the first practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Palestine.
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- Traditional oud-maker salvages ancient Palestinian tradition
| October 22, 2016
 | The Israeli occupation has caused a lot of harm to a lot of people. But at least it got Samer Totah interested in the oud, an Arab stringed instrument similar to the lute.
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The Qalandiya Festival and the Limits of Artistic Activism
| October 10, 2016
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“It has been an adventure to arrive at this moment,” began Aline Khoury, the media coordinator for the third Qalandiya International Festival (QIF). It is easy to see what she means. The event took two years to organise. Exhibits are hundreds of miles apart. One of the venues, the West Bank, is subject to a foreign occupation.
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A Glimpse of Ramallah’s Past at “Dar Zahran”
| October 10, 2016
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Ramallah’s ‘Old Town’ does not feel very old. This changes when you visit Dar Zahran. The house was built in the mid-18th century. The stone bricks, stylishly carved into alcoves above the windows, are originals.
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Vibrant Food Train empowers Palestinian ex-prisoners
| September 28, 2016
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The classic food carts are pretty boring and utilitarian, and they all look the same. At the hustle and bustle of modern Ramallah city center, an eye-catching rolling restaurant airbrushed with a riot of color thus immediately draws not only hungry foodie’s but every passerby‘s attention.
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Musical kindergarten offers future to Palestinian children
| September 27, 2016
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The most striking thing about the school is its educational ethos. As the headmistress, Fida, explains, the kindergarten is not a “music school” in the typical sense. Other schools in Ramallah teach music. But the kindergarten, with its twenty-five pupils, is different: “We have lessons with two teachers, the music teacher and the subject teacher
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First-ever professional skateboard tour hits Palestine
| September 22, 2016
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‘Radical Islam’, reads a graffiti tag in Nablus skate-park. Sketched below it is a bearded Imam, a broad grin on his face and a skateboard in his hand. On Saturday, September 10, he watched the park being put through its paces by the Isle skate team.
Isle were in town for the first professional skateboarding tour in Palestinian history.
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Gaza children return after a 10-day football trip in Ireland
| August 15, 2016
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"It was an amazing trip; a dream come true. I have learned so much and Irish people were so friendly with us," told Muhannad Abu Ouda. Muhannad is one of the 14 children from the Gaza Strip who have just returned from a 10-day visit to Ireland to play football. Aged 10 to 14 years old, the young team of Al Helal football club toured seven cities
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Know thy heritage, and share it with the world
| June 27, 2014
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While the Bethlehem Marching Band’s music echoed in the narrow streets of the town’s Old City, forty young Palestinians made their way to Manger Square. None of them grew up in Palestine, and most of them were seeing the country for the first time. On Sunday the 15 June they where welcomed to their homeland with speeches, music and dance...
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Promising opening for PalFest 2014
| June 04, 2014
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The unexpected cold wind on Saturday didn’t stop people from flocking to the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah for the opening of Palfest 2014—the seventh annual edition of The Palestinian Festival of Literature. The list of well-known authors set to read their poetry and prose made sure of that.
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Women’s cooperatives provide support and income for Palestinian women
| April 30, 2014
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Staggeringly high rates of unemployment, imprisonment, critical injury, and death at the hands of Israeli armed forces have rendered many men unable to provide for their families. As of January this year, according to Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association Addameer, there were 4,852 adult Palestinian males in Israeli prison...... | | .....Read More |
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The Jenin Freedom Theatre presents, "Lost Land"
| November 26, 2013
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After two months of research, writing and rewriting, three weeks of pre-production with the designer, one month of travel within the West Bank, seven months living with a Palestinian family in a refugee camp, three months of Arabic lessons, two and a half months of rehearsals and thirty years ‘‘impassioned by the Palestinian plight‘‘ - a well...
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The Euro-Palestinian Water Film Festival
| October 24, 2013
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The United Nations (UN) named the year 2013 as the “International Year for Water Cooperation.” Since the start of the year, many projects have taken place worldwide aimed at increasing awareness about the international challenges and demands regarding water management, sanitation and access.
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- Israel’s puppet war unmasks apartheid regime
| July 03, 2013
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The El-Hakawati theatre was colorfully adorned to host its annual International Puppet Festival when a closure order by the Israeli authorities dashed the expectations of the Palestinian children living in East Jerusalem. Now signs announcing the closure of the theatre from June 22 to 30 have replaced the festive decorations.....
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Mohammed Assaf ‘cheers up‘ Palestine
| June 20, 2013
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The second edition of the program, Arab Idol, has turned into quite an event throughout the occupied Palestinian territories. The Beirut based music talent show, based on the British series Pop Idol, is catching the attention of Palestinians like no other TV show has before.
Gathering around the TV at home, in cafes and restaurants or attending...
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Getting to know Abdelhadi Yaish, Ramallah‘s local artist
| April 12, 2013
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Standing in the corner of the main Rukab Street with Al-Anbeya Street, the familiar site of Abdelhadi Yaish and his portraits adorned the wall and pavement. He leaned towards his drawing tripod while holding a cigarette in one hand and a pencil in the other, and asked, “Where are you from?”
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- "Suicide Note from Palestine" dramatizes the reality | April 09, 2013
 | It is the year 2090. A violent Israeli shelling of the Gaza strip is projected on a folding screen. Amal, a student shows up in the middle of the stage lying down in a hospital bed. Her heartbeat has already stopped and she is being resurrected in a medical care center by strange medical staff wear in UN white coats.
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"We Exist, We Resist" showcases resistance photography
| March 07, 2013
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A new exhibit at the al-Bireh cultural center proves that photography can be a powerful tool in the struggle against the occupation.
The exhibit, called "We Exist, We Resist," features around 50 photos by 12 different photographers, both Palestinian and international. The event was organized by the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee and...
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Bukra Ahla: “Tomorrow is Better”
| December 13, 2012
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Last Wednesday the people of Jenin filed into Jenin cinema to watch the theatre’s second annual youth film festival entitled,”Bukra Ahla.”
The festival was the culmination of the hard work of students from Jenin Creative Cultural Centre, the Ariad School and the University School of Academic Education, who, for a number of weeks had been attend...
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