International Participants

Artist from Rafah, Gaza Strip.  Member of Palestine Artists’ Union, Rafah Branch.

MAJED SHALA http://www.artwfg.ps/cv.php?id_artist=3&op=index Born in 1960 in Gaza, Shala graduated with a Master of Arts from Scranton University, USA in 2001. Shala’s work has been shown in a number of solo exhibitions, including Suwar min Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon (2004) and Gaza Hanin il Makan, at the Arts and Crafts village in Gaza (2003). Between…

Naji Al-Ali on Handala “The child Handala is my signature, everyone asks me about him wherever I go. I gave birth to this child in the Gulf and I presented him to the people. His name is Handala and he has promised the people that he will remain true to himself. I drew him as…

http://projectsouarna.wordpress.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Souarna-mshrw-suarna/119269821417389 Project Souarna (Soo-War-Na) = Our Photos Project Souarna is a photography program designed to foster youth leadership and creativity. We conduct workshops for displaced youth living in and near al Wehdat refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. Background: The U.S. media continually portrays Arabs in the Middle East through one lens; therefore Project…

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Chito, artist from Chiapas, Mexico Film:  “Zapatistas” by Big Noise Productions Produced/Directed: Benjamin Eichert, Richard Rowley, State Sandberg Editors: Media Boutique Narrators: Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu-Jamal January1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico,several thousand Mayan…

http://ncm.birzeit.edu/new/page.php Background In 1990 five Palestinian musicians and music teachers conducted a study on the status of music in Palestine. They concluded that there is an urgent need to establish a music school and to fill the huge gap in music education in the Palestinian society.  It took the pioneering group three years of work…

IBDAA- To Make Something Out of Nothing Image by Jos Sances, http://www.josart.net/ From  Wikipedia with additions: The Ibdaa Cultural Center is a grassroots community-based project in the West Bank‘s Palestinian Dheisheh refugee camp. The name, “Ibdaa,” (ابداع) is translated from Arabic as “creation” or “creative ability” – “To Make Something Out of Nothing.” Since being…

http://www.shovrimshtika.org/index_e.asp Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers that collects testimonies of soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah. Soldiers who serve in the Territories are witness to, and participate in military actions which change them immensely. Cases of abuse towards Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Artist from Rafah, Gaza Strip.  Member of Palestine Artists’ Union, Rafah Branch.

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…

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…

Ibrahim Burnat of Bethlehem, Palestine Detail of installation What you view in the clouds are the clouds To find yourself in the view of some pigeons I hold still over my homeland.

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…

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,…