The Jerusalem Fund commemorated International Women’s Day, which the world celebrates annually on March 8th in order to shed light on issues relating to gender and women’s rights, with a virtual discussion with Asmaa AbuMezied, an expert in gender and economic justice, on the current realities facing Palestinian women. Watch or read the transcript below … Read more
Photographer and journalist Monique Jaques presents her award-winning photo book,Gaza Girls: Growing Up in the Gaza Strip, which looks at moments of laughter, dreaming, and living for young girls in Gaza, despite the difficulty and constraints that define their reality. This project was first published in The New York Times and has been syndicated inMarie Claire Italy, Vogue Italy, Panorama Italy, The Telegraph and The Guardian UK. Jaques discusses how she produced this book and the lessons learned along the way.
This fascinating memoir begins with vignettes about the displacement of Ameri’s family during the 1948 Nakba and their enforced migration from west Jerusalem, to Damascus, to east Jerusalem, to finally settling in Amman. The later stories focus on her gradual coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s during the era of Arab nationalism and international solidarity that take her from Amman to Cairo and then Beirut.
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