Basel El Maquosy- Gaza, Palestine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31315139@N03/?saved=1 Born in Gaza City in 1971, Plastic artist and free lance photographer Basel is a painter, photographer and video artist. He attended in 2000, 2001 and 2003 the summer Academy of Arts of Darat al Funun-Khalid Shoman Foundation in Jordan, run by Syrian-German artist Marwan Qassab-Bashi; and completed an arts course at the Gaza…

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Baladna Association for Arab Youth and DAM ‘48

The Hip Hop Crew DAM at a show at Baladna Association for Arab Youth, in Haifa, Israel. DAM http://www.dampalestine.com/ http://www.myspace.com/damrap Da Arabian MC’s Suhell Nafar, Tamer Nafar, Mahmoud Jreri DAM is the first and leading Palestinian Rap Group. It is composed of Tamer Nafar, 27, his younger brother Suhell, 23, and Mahmoud Jreri, 24. The…

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Asia Aamer- West Bank

Asia Aamer is the daughter of Hani and Munira Aamer.  The Aamers are surrounded by the Occupation Wall or Apartheid Wall on four sides.  Break the Silence Mural Project, Anarchists Against the Wall, Black Laundry, Flowers Against the Occupation and the Women’s Peace Service worked with the Aamer family and painted this mural.  Asia is…

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Art Wave – West Bank and ‘48

The Ramallah based Mojat Fan (ArtWAVE) project, undertaken by a group of Palestinan artists from all over historic Palestine, celebrated a successful first workshop series and exhibition this week. A group of twenty emerging Palestinian artists gathered to forge connections, create collective work, and experiment with art as a context and form for communication across…

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Anarchists Against the Wall, Israel

http://www.awalls.org/ History and Articles: anarwall Booklet_EN About AATW Who We Are Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW) is a direct action group that was established in 2003 in response to the construction of the wall Israel is building on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank. The group works in cooperation with Palestinians in a joint…

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Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Israel, Palestine

Photo by Mats Svensson http://www.swedishwire.com/opinion/4719-israel-is-guilty-of-colonialism-and-apartheid The Swedish Wire Opinion – Published Thursday, 27 May 2010 06:15 | Author: Mats Svensson ‘Israel is guilty of colonialism and apartheid’ OPINION – “The similarities between apartheid in South Africa and today’s politics in Israel are many”, Mats Svensson, former Swedish diplomat in Jerusalem, writes. Highlights: • “Often my…

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Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Gaza, Palestine

http://www.gcmhp.net/ OUR VISION A Palestinian society that respects human rights and in which people live in dignity, free of oppression, and feel that their well- being is promoted.   OUR MISSION To develop GCMHP as knowledge- based institution to enhance the capacity of the community in dealing with mental health problems based on the principles…

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Eman Mohammed, Gaza, Palestine

Eman Mohammed is an award winning photojournalist and TED fellow, currently based in Washington DC. Eman is a Palestinian refugee, born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Gaza City, Palestine where she started her photojournalism career at the age of 19. For the past decade, her work had been focused on documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,…

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Maschom (Checkpoint) Watch, Israel

http://www.machsomwatch.org/en MachsomWatch, in existence since 2001, is an organisation of peace activist Israeli women against the Israeli Occupation of the territories and the systematic repression of the Palestinian nation. We call for Palestinian freedom of movement within their own territory and for an end to the Occupation that destroys Palestinian society and inflicts grievous harm…

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New Profile, Israel

www.newprofile.org http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english/organizations/new_profile http://www.shministim.com/ Right Side of Leaf Image: Drawing: “Born Soldier”  by Itzik Rennert. Left Side of Leaf Image: Photograph: “Towards Tomorrow” by A. Ettinger. New Profile is a young and visible organization, the outgrowth of our belief that there is a need to question the deep-seated influence of militarism on Israeli society. The movement,…

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One State, Osama Zatar, Tal Adler, Israel

www.onestate-embassy.net/ This is the Website of OneState Embassy in Vienna Ambassadors Osama Zatar and Tal Adler have appointed themselves as first Ambassadors of OneState in June 2009, in the lack of any other diplomatic services at that time. OneState Embassy in Vienna became the first Embassy to represent OneState globally. Extremely positive reactions in Palestine…

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Rigo 23, USA, Portugal

Rigo 23 has exhibited his work internationally for over 20 years, placing murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile work in public situations where viewers are encouraged to examine their relationship to their community, their role as unwitting advocates of public policy or their place on a planet occupied by many other living things. Rigo 23’s works…

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Ronen Edelman, Israel

“Magav in Weimar” Israeli border police parked in front of the German national theatre and the statue of Goethe and Schiller.  January 2008 http://ronen.dvarim.com/ Art and Activism in Israel: An Interview with Ronen Eidelman http://inicios.es/2008/10/28/art-and-activism-in-israel-an-interview-with-ronen-eidelman/ P.M.: Your blog’s name is Medinat Weimar, which is also a project you’ve been working on for a long time…

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Qattan Foundation For the Child, Gaza, Palestine

http://www.qattanfoundation.org/qcc/en/index.asp Most of Gaza ’s children face extremely arduous and difficult circumstances that severely affect their daily lives, and often prevent them from pursuing any meaningful process of individual self-development. On a piece of land generously contributed by the city’s municipality, the Foundation thus began building the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City,…

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Shai Pollack, Israel and Bi’lin Popular Committee, Palestine, Lisa Nessan, USA

Bil’in is a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist. It is fighting to safeguard its land, its olive trees, its resources… its liberty. http://www.bilin-village.org/english/ “Bil’in Habibti” is a documentary by Shai Pollack that documents Bi’lin’s nonviolent struggle against the Israeli occupation and the building of the wall which has cost the village much land,…

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Butterfly Garden, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

http://www.aidsrilanka.info/wst_page6.html The Butterfly Peace Garden Since 1996 the Garden has provided a sanctuary in the Batticaloa war zone. Recognized worldwide, it is a unique counseling and recreation center that provides psychological support to children traumatized by war. Most of the children who come to the center suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. Many of these…

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Rachel Corrie Sports Initiative, Gaza

By Andrew Ford Lyons You’re watching your kid play soccer. It’s a chilly weekend morning and you may be upset at the lost sleep involved in getting up and getting him there. The grass is green and the net, goal posts, striping are new and unscarred from previous play; their maintenance secured through a school…

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Sliman Mansour, West Bank

  Suliman Mansour is one of the leading Palestinian artists. Born in the Palestinian village of Beir Zeit in 1947, Mansour is a co-founder of the Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem (Now director of the Center). He is also a member of the “New Vision” artist group, which focuses on the use of local material…

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