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Ali from Bahrain: How I Became a Refugee (In both Arabic and English)
![[Ali. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_alifrombahrain.jpg "[Ali. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]")
هذا الشريط ضمن سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الشريط التالي يحمل عنوان ”علي من البحرين: كيف أصبحت لاجئاً" من إخراج نرمين حداد. جاء علي إلى لبنان لتكملة دراسته، وعندما إندلعت الثورة البحرينية دعم علي المظاهرات بصورة علنية. فقامت السلطات البحرينية بمنعه ...
Keep Reading »عين على المخيم
![[أطفال في مخيم برج البراجنة، بيروت. تصوير وحقوق نشر لمحمد مواسي]](/content_images/3/sm_MawassiChildren.jpg "[أطفال في مخيم برج البراجنة، بيروت. تصوير وحقوق نشر لمحمد مواسي]")
بلغ عدد اللاجئين المسجلين لدى الانوروا (وكالة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين) نهاية عام 2011، حوالي 5.1 مليون لاجئ فلسطيني، يشكلون ما نسبته 45.6% من مجمل السكان الفلسطينيين في العالم، يتوزعون بواقع 59.1% في كل من الأردن وسوريا ولبنان، و17.1% في الضفة الغربية، و23.8% في قطاع غزة. يعيش حوالي 29.0% من اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في 58 مخيماً. وتمثل هذه التقديرات الحد الأدنى لعدد اللاجئين الفلسطينيين باعتبار وجود لاجئين غير مسجلين. هذه الصور التقطتها عدسة محمد مواسي في اذار/مارس من العام الجاري في مخيم برج البراجنة. تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها للفت الإنتباه والتذكير بمحنة اللاجئين في الذكرى الرابعة والستين للنكبة. أُنشئ مخيم برج البراجنة ...
Keep Reading »Syrian Refugee - Wounded (In both Arabic and English)
![[Anonymous Syrian refugee. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]](/content_images/3/sm_syrianrefugee_wounded.jpg "[Anonymous Syrian refugee. Image from Al-Arabi Al-Hor]")
هذا هو الشريط الثاني في سلسلة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن إنتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. عنوان الفيلم الثاني هو "لاجئة سورية - مجروحة". هرب عدد من اللاجئين السوريين من قرية تل كلخ إلى قرية وادي خالد اللبنانية بالقرب من منطقة الحدود اللبنانية السورية. استقل هؤلاء اللاجئين ...
Keep Reading »Syrian Refugees in Turkey
![[Map of border area between Syria and Turkey. Image from Al Jazeera]](/content_images/3/sm_syrianturkishborder.jpg "[Map of border area between Syria and Turkey. Image from Al Jazeera]")
[The following report was published in the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter on 1 April 2012. It was prepared by by Oktay Durukan and Zaid Hydari of Helsinki Citizens Assembly-Regugee Advocacy and Support Program.] Update: Syrian Refugees in Turkey 16,000 and Counting … Since the Syrian conflict began over one year ago, the Government of Turkey has kept its borders open to individuals who have fled the turmoil. According to latest official figures, over 22,000 Syrians entered the camps erected in Turkey’s Hatay province near the border with Syria, and approximately 16,000 Syrians currently remain in the camps. News reports over the last two weeks have ...
Keep Reading »An Ongoing Nakba: The Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq
![[Al-Tanf camp in No Man's Land on the Syria-Iraq border, which was closed by UNHCR and the Syrian government in 2010. Image by Thierry Esch.]](/content_images/3/sm_TomCharles1.jpg "[Al-Tanf camp in No Man's Land on the Syria-Iraq border, which was closed by UNHCR and the Syrian government in 2010. Image by Thierry Esch.]")
In September 2011, the month that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud ‘Abbas, submitted Palestine’s statehood bid at the United Nations (UN), Qusai Abdul-Raouf of the Lebanon-based Palestinian Human Rights Foundation was undertaking the task of documenting the increasing number of attacks against Palestinians in the al-Baladiyyat neighbourhood of Baghdad. As he toured the neighborhood, three gunmen
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The Unknown Hell of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
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For the past sixty-three years, millions of Palestinians have lived as refugees in areas of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and in surrounding countries. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) describes their plight as “by far the most protracted and largest of all refugee problems in the world today." Three-quarters of all eleven million Palestinians throughout the world are refugees, though their plight is often ignored. Many key issues in the Middle East, political and humanitarian, arose as a consequence of Israel’s denial of the right of refugees to return to their land. Multiple international treaties and conventions recognize the ...
Keep Reading »Two Poems by Rafeef Ziadah
![[Rafeef Ziadah. Image from screen shot of below video]](/content_images/3/sm_rafeef.jpg "[Rafeef Ziadah. Image from screen shot of below video]")
Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza.
Keep Reading »Leyla Halid'le Soylesi: Yasanmis Gundelik Bir Deneyim Olarak Direnis ve Devrim
![[Leila Khaled. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_turkishkhalidpart1.jpg "[Leila Khaled. Image from unknown archive.]")
[This interview was conducted in Arabic by Ziad Abu-Rish and translated/published from English into Turkish by SOL KÜRE.] Leyla Halid’le Söyleşi: Yaşanmış Gündelik Bir Deneyim Olarak Direniş ve Devrim [Aşağıdaki metin, yazarın 2007 yazında Leyla Halid’le yaptığı söyleşi dizisinin 1. bölümüdür.] İşgal terörizmdir; bir mülteci olmak cehennemdir; yurdunuzun çalınması bir suçtur; bir özgürlük savaşçısı olmak özgürleşmektir. Bu tümcelerle başladım, çünkü Filistinli bir mülteci olma hikayesiyle ilgili birkaç husus üzerinde durmak istiyorum. 1944’de Hayfa’da doğdum. Ancak 1948’de vatanlarından çıkartılan tüm diğer Filistinli’ler gibi yurdumdan sürüldüm. ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 4)
![[Graffiti art depicting Leila Khaled. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_iamnotaterrorist.jpg "[Graffiti art depicting Leila Khaled. Image from unknown archive.]")
[This is Part 4 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, here to read Part 1, here to read Part 2, and here to read Part 3] After a brief training period in Jordan in 1969, I found myself in Lebanon meeting with Dr. Wadi Haddad. He asked me if I was ready to die. I replied that I was and asked why. He then told me that the real question is whether I was willing to spend the rest of my life in jail. I once again replied that I was and asked why. He then asked if I was ready to hijack a plane. ...
Keep Reading »AJE Interview Featuring Noura Erakat on Palestinian Statehood Bid
![[Noura Erakat. Image from english.aljazeera.net]](/content_images/3/sm_nouraaje.jpg "[Noura Erakat. Image from english.aljazeera.net]")
[The following roundtable interview was conducted by Roxanne Horesh with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat and several other analysts. It was published on Al Jazeera English on 19 September 2011.] Debating the UN bid for Palestinian statehood Experts discuss what may happen with the Palestinian bid for UN statehood and what it means for all concerned. A delegation of Palestinian leaders has flown to New York for the opening of the UN General Assembly, beginning on September 20, to request UN membership for a Palestinian state. Senior members of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) have said they will go to the Security Council. The ...
Keep Reading »Without Principle, There is Nothing: On the Undignified Politics of the American Task Force on Palestine
[The following statement was issued by the US Palestinian Community Network on 19 May 2012 in response to the event of and ensuring discussion around the participation ATFP's Ziad Asali in an Israeli "Independence Day" celebration.] Across the shatat and in the homeland, Palestinians marked the 64th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948 in a multitude of ways. We rallied, we held vigils, and we took a quiet moment to remember, reflect, and mourn. On this anniversary, we particularly ...
Keep Reading »سروة ونكبة...
قصة قصيرة ليلة مقمرة، لا أقل ولا أكثر. وأشجار سرو، كانت تؤرقني كلما تأملتها. كانت تحيط بساحة المدرسة وتبدو لي تافهة مكتوفة الأيدي، غير قادرة على تحريك أغصانها بحرية. وكنت أعتقد ألا نفع منها، لا بثمر ولا بظل، إلا بسهولة رسمها في كراريسنا. أشجار سرو، تحوطني هذه الليلة ولكن ليس في ساحة المدرسة. تترنح ذات الشمال وذات اليمين، وكأنها تعاكس الريح. أما أنا فكنت بطيء النمو ونحيفاً مثلها وربما هذا ما جعلني أُكثر من تأملها وأنا لم أقطع سنواتي العشر بعد. كنا ننام أربعتنا، أنا وأختي ندى ووالداي، منذ ليال خمس ...
Keep Reading »Judith Butler: Boycott Politics and Global Responsibility (Video)
The following is a video of a lecture given by Judith Butler, entitled "Boycott Politics and Global Responsability," wherein she discusses the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The lecture was given at Tufts University and co-sponsored by the school's Antrhopology, Sociology, English, and Peace and Justice Studies departments. Butler is a professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. The video is in two parts.
Keep Reading »مفتاح منطقة القلب
كانت فكرة حمقاء... استيقظت اليوم بعد نوم عسير قصير وقررت أن رائحة معجون الحلاقة قد تعينني على ما علق في النفس من قبح أخبار المجزرة. حمقاء أقول... ارتعدتُ مما تنطوي عليه العملية من ضرورة مواجهة عار العجز وجهاً لوجه . هناك حيث القلب، دماء وأشلاء في كل الجهات تفيض من شاشة كمبيوتري الصقيلة الأنيقة على ما بقي من احترام الذات. أقف أمام المرآة ولا أرى أحداً. "حسنٌ إذن... تحسس ذقنك واحلق سريعاً". أفرك الرغوة وأضرب الضربة الأولى... أُجرَح ويسيل دم... أنظر إلى المرآة فأرى نصف وجه دامٍ ...
Keep Reading »Flashmob: Brides Boycott Ahava and SodaStream at Bed Bath and Beyond (Video)
The following is a video of a flash mob mobilizing for the boycott of AHAVA and SodaStream at a Bed Bath and Beyond store in Marin County, California. Music by Jane Jewell and Sue Blackwell. Lyrics: Ode to Boycott Israel, end your occupation, There's no peace on stolen land; We'll sing out for liberation, 'Till you hear and understand. Ethnic cleansing and apartheid Should belong to history, Human rights should not be silenced, Palestine will soon be free! All this Dead Sea mud is ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. [Co-winner of the 2011 Albert Hourani Book Award] Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Rochelle Davis: Over the course of a decade, I collected 120 village books written by Palestinians about the more than four hundred villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war. By documenting and analyzing the work of these local historians and preservationists, and their knowledge of a ...
Keep Reading »Boycott: Where To?
The Haifa-based Mada al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research released its latest issue of the electronic quarterly Jadal entitled: Boycotting Israel: Between Theory and Practice. This issue provides a preliminary assessment and critical reflection on the question of boycotting Israel. So far, discussions on this subject have ranged between either an outright dismissal and knee-jerk rejection by pro-Israel groups, or an enthusiastic endorsement by pro-Palestine groups. Jadal aims to provide a ...
Keep Reading »An Apocalyptic Air of Approaching Peril: Zionism at the United Nations
Bibi sauntered. He swaggered. He spoke freely, seemingly unguided by any text. He irreverently made circles with his fingers. He called the group of diplomats and interns assembled in front of him actors in “a theater of the absurd.” He proudly modeled his thick coat of indifference just as he called the United Nations, a “house of lies.” Indeed, so capable was the UN in presenting the false as true, Bibi gestured assuredly, they could go so far to declare that the sun set in the ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 3)
[This is Part 3 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, here to read Part 1, and here to read Part 2.] The 1960s were particularly formative for many activists and thinkers in the Middle East, Leila Khaled among them. It was the high point of the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), one of the major political parties of the period. Many of ...
Keep Reading »The Keys to Birweh [Gone to Palestine: 9]
We went to visit Shatila camp where our friend Lula was teaching English. We knew the camp was important. We knew that it was a center of the struggle for many reasons. We knew that this was the place where hundreds of women, children and men were massacred over a few days in September 1982. We knew who the murderers were. We knew who trained them. We knew who supplied the weapons. We knew who promised to provide security for the camp when the PLO evacuated. We knew that the camp was leveled in 1985 to ...
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