Internationally renowned Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro talks about his work as the coordinator of Youth Against Settlements (YAS), a Hebron-based organization that documents human rights abuses and encourages the local families to resist nonviolently and remain steadfast in their homes despite severe freedom of movement restrictions and ongoing attacks by settlers and soldiers.
The Jerusalem Fund’s Board of Directors and staff mourn the passing of H.E. Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, who passed away yesterday, May 15, 2016. “He was always a friend of The Jerusalem Fund and of Palestine,” said Dr. Subhi Ali, chairman of the Board of Directors, “and admired by all of us.”
Dr. Fouad Moughrabi examines the problems facing Palestinian education under occupation and prospects for the future. He discusses his work with the Qattan Center for Educational Research and Development to implement educational reform for K-12, outlining the strategic thinking and analysis that shaped it and the problems associated with building successful institutions under difficult circumstances.
The storied generation of shabab (youth) who brought global attention to Palestine through their historically unparalleled activism during the first intifada are now adults – and nothing they fought for has come to pass. Dr. Brian K. Barber examines this situation by posing a series of questions about the first generation of Palestinians to live their entire lives under occupation.
This feature-length documentary explores the concept of Palestinian cinema produced by an effectively stateless people. Cinema Palestine combines in-depth interviews with directors including Hany Abu-Assad, Azza el-Hassan, Sobhi Zobaidi, Mai Masri, Tawfik Abu Wael, Annemarie Jacir, and many more, along with excerpts from their films.
Set in a women’s hair salon in Gaza during a confrontation between the police and a local gangster, effectively trapping the women inside, Degrade blends caricature and reality to emphasize the complexity of life in Gaza where people are afflicted by multiple nodes of pressure and the social space of women is increasingly circumscribed by these pressures.
The film follows an elderly couple, Yousef and Amna, in their final stand-off with Israeli authorities to keep their rustic home, a shack in the Roshmia valley in Haifa. A friend encourages them to leave and works to secure municipal compensation for the couple, but tensions grow between Yousef, who refuses to leave his home, and Amna, who seeks to move on.
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Member of the PLO Executive Committee and Palestinian Legislative Council, discusses the current conditions in Palestine. She explores several topics, such as U.S. policy in the region and Palestinian-Israeli relations, and reflects on her own experiences as a Palestinian political leader and policymaker.
Reverend Dr. Mitri Raheb discusses the situation of Palestinian youth in the Occupied Territories, following a screening of two films recently produced by students of the Dar al-Kalima University College of Bethlehem, Palestine.
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