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The late Palestinian scholar, Edward Said, remarked that Palestinians had been denied permission to narrate their history and speak of the day-to-day experiences of life in the margins. Here, we reclaim that permission to narrate our own stories.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (13 February 2015) – The Jerusalem Fund mourns the passing of Dr. Naseer Aruri, a former board member and Palestine Center Advisor. Chancellor Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and internationally recognized Middle East expert, Dr. Aruri died Tuesday, February 10, at the age of 81 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease.
By Palestine Center
The upcoming elections for Israel’s House of Representatives, the Knesset, will be taking place this year on 17 March, 2015. Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party is currently vying for his fourth term as Prime Minister, which would prolong his involvement in Israeli politics to nearly two decades.
Video and Edited Transcript Philip Farah and David WildmanTranscript No. 423 (4 February 2015) Samirah Alkassim: Spiritual groups have often been at the frontlines of human rights movements in the U.S. In recent years there have been dramatic positions taken by faith-based groups such as the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church, the United … Read more
Gallery Al-Quds launched a new year of content–loaded art shows with Natural History, which examines the subject of cultural destruction from the angle of decimation of the natural environment.
Panelists Phyllis Bennis and Ambassador Philip Wilcox discuss the efficacy and challenges to the recent PA resolution to the UNSC and signing the Rome Statute of the ICC.
Artist Debra Van Poolen spent a month at the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem in Beit Sahour, Palestine. There she learned about the West Bank’s natural history and amazing biological diversity, along with the present day decimation of the land. Her sensitive paintings and drawings reflect this reality.
Jacob J. Nammar, author of “Born In Jerusalem, Born Palestinian,” discusses his life during the 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (22 December 2014) – As of 20 December, 2014, our Executive Director Yousef Munayyer has resigned in order to pursue other goals and interests. The Jerusalem Fund will be sad to see him go. We wish Mr. Munayyer the best of luck in all his future endeavors.
“Suspended Time was conceived as a way to understand the status quo of image production twenty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords in Washington, D.C. in 1993. The idea of producing short films around this concept came from our disability in seeing where we are standing today, both politically and cinematically.”
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