"There are two peoples here, and they will remain here. Only ending the occupation, and only recognizing the State of Palestine alongside Israel, will bring justice, peace, and security to all." איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh

איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh

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"They removed me from the plenum just because I raised the simplest demand, a demand that the entire international community agrees on: To recognize a Palestinian state. To recognize this simple reality: There are two peoples here, and neither is going anywhere."

  

איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh

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כמות הצביעות במליאה בלתי נסבלת. להמליך את נתניהו על ידי חנפנות שלא נראתה כמותה, על ידי להקה מתוזמרת, לא פוטרת אותו ואת ממשלתו מהפשעים נגד האנושות שבוצעו בעזה, ולא מהאחריות על דמם של מאות אלפי קורבנות פלסטינים ואלפי קורבנות ישראלים. אבל רק בגלל הפסקת המלחמה והעסקה הכוללת אני כאן. ולכל אלה החיים בבועה המנותקת של הכנסת: למרות ממשלת ימין על מלא, למרות השימוש הציני ב-7 באוקטובר, ולמרות מלחמת ההשמדה, ממשלת הפשעים לא הצליחה לשנות את המשוואה הפשוטה: יש כאן שני עמים, והם יישארו כאן. רק סיום הכיבוש, ורק הכרה במדינת פלסטין לצד ישראל, יביאו צדק, שלום וביטחון, לכולם.

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"The amount of hypocrisy in the plenum is unbearable. 

 

To crown Netanyahu through flattery the likes of which has never been seen, through an orchestrated group, does not absolve him and his government of the crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, nor of the responsibility for the blood of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian victims and thousands of Israeli victims. 

 

But only because of the ceasefire and the overall deal am I here. 

 

And to all those living in the disconnected bubble of the Knesset: despite a fully right-wing government, despite the cynical use of October 7, and despite the war of annihilation, the government of crimes has failed to change the simple equation: 

 

There are two peoples here, and they will remain here. Only ending the occupation, and only recognizing the State of Palestine alongside Israel, will bring justice, peace, and security to all."

 

איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh

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"We struggled for two years for this moment, for the cessation of war and a comprehensive deal. 

 

We are happy, but our joy is tinged with pain, from the horrific crimes that were caused, and the tunnels of blood that our land has absorbed. 

 

We deserve to smile. The families deserve to rejoice. 

 

But we must gather strength to continue the struggle for the noblest cause of all, achieving comprehensive peace, based on ending the occupation and respecting the rights of both peoples. 

 

Because we were all born free

 

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Two Israeli lawmakers – Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif, members of the left-wing Hadash Party – interrupted the US president’s address, chanting slogans demanding recognition of Palestinian statehood and denouncing the Gaza genocide, according to the Anadolu news agency.

Is Trump’s new Palestine plan a breakthrough or diplomatic mirage? Washington’s roadmap aligns surprisingly closely with a UN-backed plan – but key differences could prove unworkable

Displaced Palestinians at a tent camp in Khan Younis. Photograph: Jehad Alshrafi/AP

 Patrick Wintour in New York

Thu 25 Sep 2025

“Better truth than illusions,” Polish prime minister Donald Tusk warned on Thursday – urging scepticism over Donald Trump’s motives in claiming that Ukraine could recapture all its lost territories.

The same might be said about the US president’s new approach to Palestine, but suddenly the optimists are back, with a two-state solution emerging from the rubble of two years of war in Gaza.

The US envoy, Steve Witkoff, talks of a 21-point White House plan for Palestine that he claims regional leaders broadly support. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, says it is also compatible with the plan for Palestine set out in the New York declaration endorsed by the UN general assembly this week.

But how can there be such a convergence between the two plans – one American and one backed by the UN – and is this just another temporary Trump-induced mirage? ....READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/is-trumps-new-palestine-plan-a-breakthrough-or-diplomatic-mirage

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While welcome, the recognition of a Palestinian State doesn’t mean much if there isn’t a ceasefire in Gaza, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini tells BBC News on the margins of #UNGA80

"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is morally, legally & politically intolerable. The nightmare must stop. Today, I called on world leaders to do all they can to ensure the Two-State solution prevails, for the people of Israel, Palestine & all humanity." António Guterres , Secretary-General of the United Nations

António Guterres

@antonioguterres

 

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is morally, legally & politically intolerable. The nightmare must stop. Today, I called on world leaders to do all they can to ensure the Two-State solution prevails, for the people of Israel, Palestine & all humanity.

Israel's no-state solution... Palestinian sovereignty has always been out of the question for Israel, as have equal rights under one binational state.

 

"... In sum, Israel as an occupying power has consistently pursued not two states, operationalised through withdrawal and land-for-peace, but no state (for Palestinians), operationalised through settlement expansion and “peace-for-peace”.

In the latter - despite its innocuous name - Palestinians are offered neither withdrawal nor equal rights in exchange for Israel’s peace, but rather a “peace” in which they are spared from massive Israeli bombing (and, now, starvation) campaigns.

This threat of hugely asymmetric attacks on civilian populations is used to guarantee Israel’s security as it maintains its occupation and system of preferential rights, and as it enacts the “lower intensity” everyday violence of occupation and segregation on the Palestinians."

"The Achilles heel of the peace process was assuming that Israel views Palestinian statehood as necessary to its security, so that the benefits of withdrawal would outweigh Israel's interest in expansionism"

An untenable strategy

 Read More ... https://www.newarab.com/analysis/israels-no-state-solution-and-endurance-palestine

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50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict USA Today 1-5-2023

Anan Ameri & Dick Soble: "For any two other people, the debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might have gotten ugly.  He’s Jewish and supports a two-state solution. She’s Palestinian and wants one state with equal rights, which critics say would spell the end for a Jewish homeland. He condemns the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. She says it was to be expected. Though she doesn’t want civilians killed, “violence,” she says, “breeds violence.” 

But these two are not enemies. They’re best friends, and have been close for more than 50 years."

 50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Violet Ikonomova

USA TODAY NETWORK

Jan 5 2024

"... On a one- versus two-state solution, Ameri supports one, covering the area of Israel and the Palestinian territories. She previously supported two, but now sees the more than 700,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as an insurmountable barrier and doesn’t believe a nation of Palestine would be permitted to arm itself.

Soble supports two states, in part to maintain a Jewish homeland in the event global antisemitism again rises near the extremes of the Holocaust.

But on an overarching point, they agree: Both want an immediate end to the war.

“There are those who believe in one-state, two-state, and there are now 17,000 people who have no state,” Soble said, referring to the number of Palestinians killed by the time they spoke. “So we have to prioritize what we put our political efforts behind, and any other discussion sidetracks us from (the cease-fire being) critical to getting to any other solution.”

Interviewed separately, Ameri and Soble both spoke to the shared values and principles they say make their open dialogue possible"...  READ MORE https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/05/cross-cultural-friendship-survives-israeli-palestinian-conflict/72087017007/

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Palestine's Saeb Erekat: Mideast peace impossible without international action

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Analysis: Mideast peace impossible without international action
By Saeb Erekat

Saeb Erekat is chief Palestinian negotiator for the PLO.

The predicted "death" of the two-state solution, which has been repeated consistently for many years now, has led to a sense of complacency and a lack of urgency regarding the current situation. In the government of Israel, this does not provoke major concern, because the present coalition's political platform is focused on consolidating colonization rather than achieving peace. This is a government that believes it can indefinitely maintain a system whereby one group of people is privileged and another oppressed.

Among the Israeli public, it is not a central concern due to the fact that Israel is not paying any price for its systematic violations of human rights and international law, allowing its people to turn a blind eye to the millions persecuted in their name. But something is clear: We are at the point of no return. Whether we achieve a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, or enter into a long struggle for civil rights in order to defeat Israeli apartheid throughout historic Palestine, it will fall to the international community to decide.

Palestine recognized Israeli sovereignty over 78 percent of our homeland back in 1988. This painful and historic compromise was not a tactical move, but a strategic choice. We have worked tirelessly to implement, on the ground, the vision of two sovereign, democratic states living side by side in peace and security. We have made every effort to reach a just and lasting peace, from the adoption of non-violent methods to resist the Israeli occupation to diplomatic steps, within the international arena, seeking to achieve overdue Palestinian rights.

Acceding to multilateral treaties also helps Palestine to shape itself as a peace-loving state that respects human rights and a responsible actor on the international stage. And yet, all such Palestinian moves have been answered with aggressive responses from Israel, resulting in an absurd situation whereby acts such as sitting at the negotiating table or signing treaties on women's and children's rights, are met with further settlement announcements, increased violence against Palestinians, and economic sanctions on an already captive economy.

Although some sectors within Israel understand the urgency of the situation, the lack of decisive international action has undermined those who want a negotiated two-state solution and has empowered the extremists leading the Israeli government coalition. As long as no action is taken on the economic, political, and diplomatic levels, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Lieberman, Housing Minister Ariel, and Economy Minister Bennett will continue along the same path, which is one of apartheid and colonization rather than one of justice, peace, and reconciliation.

The European Union took an important step by publishing guidelines prohibiting European funding to settlements. This is a step in the right direction, but there is much more to be done in order to tackle the Israeli settlement enterprise, the main obstacle to peace. If the international community believes in the two-state solution, simple actions such as recognizing the State of Palestine; supporting Palestine's access to international treaties; ensuring that international companies have no contracts with, investments in, or trade with, Israeli entities that have direct or indirect links to settlements; or in the case of Europe, asking Israeli settlers to apply for visas, will go a long way toward achieving this.

The reality of the "end of the two-state solution" has been reflected in the EU Heads of Mission Report on East Jerusalem and reports on human rights and freedom of worship from the U.S. State Department. It can be read in every document produced by UN organizations and can be seen all over the occupied State of Palestine. The reality is no secret. What is required, however, is more active steps from all third party states, steps which will bring their operative policy in line with their declared policy, and most importantly, with international law.

It is time for the international community to empower those within Israel who want peace rather than colonization. It is time to stop treating Israel as a state above the law. It is time for Israel to revoke dozens of laws and hundreds of policies that discriminate against Palestinian Christians and Muslims. It is time to end the immorality of prolonging the exile and occupation of an entire nation due to the incapacity of the international community to hold Israel accountable for decades of forced displacement, occupation, and colonization.

Over the years I have come to know many Israelis. My belief in the prospects of peace was boosted, most of the time, after those personal encounters. I feel that many Israelis resent the notion of forever being occupiers. However, their government continues to avoid the only logical conclusion.

Time does not stand still. Israelis are approaching the point where they must make a fateful choice: Are they ready to opt for the two-state solution, or abandon it forever? I am one of those who believe a two-state solution is still possible, but I am not naïve. Without international action, the prospects for a just and lasting peace will remain elusive.

It's time for Palestinians and Israelis to share a just peace... It's time for freedom from occupation... It's time for equal rights.... It's time for the healing of wounded souls.....

World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel

World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel
21 - 27 September 2014
"Let my people go!"
An initiative of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) of the World Council of Churches

The Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) of the World Council of Churches invites member churches, faith-based communities, and civil society organizations around the world to join together in 2014 for a week of advocacy and action in support of an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine and a just peace for all in Palestine and Israel. Congregations and individuals around the globe who share the hope of justice shall unite during the week to take peaceful actions, together, to create a common international public witness.

The theme of the week in 2014, to be observed during 21-27 September, is: "Let my people go!"

How to get involved

As participants in World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel, from 21 to 27 September 2014, churches around the world shall send a clear signal to policy-makers, community groups, and their own parishes about the urgent need for a peace settlement that ends the illegal occupation and secures the legitimate rights and future of both peoples.

Already, planning has begun for World Week for Peace 2014, during which participants will organize and join in events and activities around the following three principles:

1. Praying with churches living under occupation, using a special prayer from Jerusalem and other worship resources prepared for the week.

2. Educating about actions that make for peace, and about facts on the ground that do not create peace, especially issues related to prisoners.

3. Advocating with political leaders using ecumenical policies that promote peace with justice.

Why?

This annual observance of a week of prayer, education, and advocacy calls participants to work for an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine, so that Palestinians and Israelis can finally live in peace. It has been 66 years since the creation of the State of Israel. This has not led to the creation of an independent Palestinian state but has only deepened the tragedy of the Palestinian people. It is now 47 years since the occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza overwhelmed the peaceful vision of one land, two peoples.

Yet the dream of one nation cannot be fulfilled at the expense of another.

The action week's message is that now:

• It's time for Palestinians and Israelis to share a just peace.
• It's time for freedom from occupation.
• It's time for equal rights.
• It's time for the healing of wounded souls.

This Week in Palestine promotes the Palestinian cultural image as an expression of embodied experience, a mode of communication, and a form for understanding our society, history, ecology, and ultimately ourselves... Taking a very close look at Palestinian public diplomacy and promoting Palestine.

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Promoting Palestine

JUNE 2014  

Message from the Editor

A couple of nights ago I was having difficulty sleeping, so I decided to casually browse through Facebook. The first status that jumped out at me was that of a Facebook friend who had left Palestine a decade or maybe more ago. It said something along the lines of how happy she is that her children are not being brought up in a racist Arabic society. I could not take it, so I responded. I had to. I had lived in the United States for eleven years, and what I had often found most infuriating was the Palestinians’ inability to promote and advertise themselves. In fact, we turn quickly to self-defamation. If our streets are demonstration battlefields filled with tear gas grenades and rocks, then the world is our PR battlefield filled with all types of stereotype missiles. When I was living in the States, it felt like we were losing. These days, however, I think we’re doing better, though we still have a long way to go.

This issue is meant to be a microscopic examination of the advertising industry in Palestine, along with a very close look at the idea of macroscopically branding Palestine; I mean taking a very close look at Palestinian public diplomacy and promoting Palestine. I am told that using the term “branding Palestine” is no longer appropriate. In this issue we have a heavyweight academic honing in on the subject, and she maps out the field quite well for us. We also look at advertising campaigns and the status of radio in Palestine, and we have an excellent piece on Palestinian online content and why Google does not seem to know us well.

A theme such as this is difficult to synthesise into an issue with an editorial section, a limelight section, and, of course, advertorials, but we’ve tried to do just that, and I hope we’ve succeeded. As usual, you, our reader, are the final judge. Be sure to read our Personality of the Month, a very prominent young media specialist is featured.

Riyam Kafri-AbuLaban

Content Editor

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Photo by Emad Badwan.

Photo by George Azar.

Sea of Acre. Photo by Ahed Izhiman.

Hebron Mountains. Photo by Ahed Izhiman.

 Image, Word, and Text Promoting Palestinian Cultural Identity
By Ali Qleibo

This Week in Palestine promotes the Palestinian cultural image as an expression of embodied experience, a mode of communication, and a form for understanding our society, history, ecology, and ultimately ourselves. Under its umbrella the magazine embraces a variety of perspectives from diverse authors in whose texts one may examine the intricacies of narrative identity construction. Using verbal and pictorial, linguistic and visual, scientific and literary texts, the diverse articles demonstrate how the construction of selves, memories, and life-worlds are interwoven in one narrative fabric that promotes, codifies, systematises, and promotes Palestinian identity. In their totality these narratives give an account of the fundamental capabilities and vulnerabilities that Palestinians display in the activities that make up their lives.

Over the past fifteen years TWIP has been inviting its readers to explore explicit fundamental issues such as gender, folk customs, memory, communication, economics, history, and a great diversity of cultural expressions in Palestine. Together with the glossy advertisements of restaurants, cultural events, hotels, banks, and diplomatic offices, the monthly periodical has come to provide a wide panorama of Palestine and Palestinian society at a crucial moment of transition. Avoiding political clichés and slogans, the magazine has undertaken the task of unravelling the socio-economic cultural underpinnings of the on-going democratisation and modernisation of Palestine under Israeli occupation. Each monthly publication has a theme and invites specialists, politicians, economists, psychologists, educators, anthropologists, and local experts to contribute articles. The changing monthly theme allows a host of Palestinian academics and experts to review the foundations of contemporary Palestinian cultural identity.

TWIP favours essays with a personal flavour - and illustrated with photographs whenever possible - that provide an insider’s insight into Palestinian culture. Anthropological theory, historical details, political innuendos, and economic vision, in addition to personal commentaries and observations, enrich the varied accounts as proffered by specialists from diverse fields. 

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TWIP offers the space wherein scholars, economists, anthropologists, politicians, experts from various fields, and researchers contribute articles that present and update past and current Palestinian experiences. In their totality these narratives construct, forge, and promote the contemporary Palestinian image nationally and internationally.

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TWIP presents a dynamic exploration of Palestinian identity that interpolates the written narrative with visual imagery. Its design and layout juxtapose the literary and artistic sides - both word and image - to construct a positive and viable Palestinian identity. The result is two parallel narratives: the literary expository level and the reflexive photographic image. Both word and image form an inextricably linked unit. In the process each monthly issue emerges as a narrative vista, rich with contributions based on experience and personal research into the modern Palestinian experiential reality. Such an effort to bridge the gap between text and image is a challenge that the TWIP team face on a monthly basis. The product, the monthly TWIP, is a multi-textual narrative that stands at a point of axis between objective science, humanist literature, and art, in which word and image promote Palestine and the Palestinians.

The relation of the image to the written text is complex; the photograph has a referential power independent from that of the word. The photograph tears the veil of words. Through the photographs the reader is invited to examine surface details. The generic stereotype is displaced by the tangible image. The people, the landscape, and the social space are represented concretely. Through the depiction of detail the dynamic organisation of space is revealed. Moreover, the immediacy of the photo adds human pathos to the otherwise impersonal literary impression. In lieu of the elusive image of the highly politicised Palestinian as victim or hero, the photograph confirms Palestinian humanity within a social, ecological, and political context.

The repertoire of images employed is quite varied. The collection includes the conventional documentary genre in which the still photograph illustrates and remains, in a sense, subservient to the written word. However, the repertoire of photographs forms an independent text parallel to the literary narrative. Many are visual compositions that are photo specific. These photographs include the artistic mode that records the subjective elusive mood of the place and the moment.

Other photos capture individuals or groups in the course of their activities - in the market, at home, in the fields, at weddings, at the church, mosque, etc. Additional photos indicate the passing of the seasons, the changing landscape from spring to winter, the shifting light; in short, the ecological context with attention varying from the particular social detail to the overall dynamic organisation of space.

The photographs, anecdotes, and advertisements interlace to transport the reader/viewer into a personal encounter with everyday Palestinian life. Both photograph and word are expertly braided together to project the image of Palestinians the way we like to see ourselves and the way we like to be seen. The contrapuntal format of the articles, between social science, humanist literature, economics, and art underlies its objective - namely, to humanise the personal and collective levels of Palestinian identity.

TWIP has come to assume its current prominence by providing insiders’ insight into social, ethnographic, economic, political, literary, and artistic Palestinian cultural expressions in English. By providing an adroit mixture of both entertainment and knowledge of Palestinian culture, the magazine has forged a new genre of literature that stands midway between uncompromising academic work and reader-friendly articles.

Objective yet reflexive, the magazine provides narrative space for negative as well as positive trends and practices on the institutional, social, political, cultural, and individual levels. Certain subjects are blatantly avoided, namely, probing into thorny religious issues such as secularism, fundamentalism, the production of sexual desire, child abuse, prostitution, incest, homosexuality, divorce, political corruption, and questioning basic issues such as the validity of the 1948 Taqsim in the modern guise of “the two-state solution.” A self-imposed censorship blocks the deployment of socially censured discourses. Between shy silences and the traditional Arabic concept of opprobrium, the magazine seeks to give expression to what is collectively acceptable. TWIP does not question the status quo. The overlooked objects of writings, the “oversights,” and the systemic lacunae in the discourse of TWIP overlap with what are deemed worthy topics of writing to impart a unique identity to the magazine. Beyond the image and word, a deep sense of nationalism and commitment underlies this cultural venture. It is hoped that in the future these subjects will be broached.

TWIP is a mirror image of Palestinians with all our contradictions. In fact, Palestinians identify with TWIP because it is the image we like to reflect to the world about ourselves. By the same token the topics of Palestinians and how we live have become easily accessible through the Internet. To know the Palestinians one simply turns to TWIP online. Over the years, the magazine has rightfully come to assume its position as the major disseminator and promoter of Palestinian identity: TWIP has become a Palestinian icon.

Dr. Ali Qleibo is an anthropologist, author, and artist. A specialist in the social history of Jerusalem and Palestinian peasant culture, he is the author of Before the Mountains Disappear, Jerusalem in the Heart, and Surviving the Wall, an ethnographic chronicle of contemporary Palestinians and their roots in ancient Semitic civilisations. Dr. Qleibo lectures at Al-Quds University. He can be reached at aqleibo@yahoo.com.

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• Palestine: People and Land
  By Hamdan Taha

Name: Palestine, Filastin, Canaan, Holy Land, etc.
Boundaries: sea to river
Capital: Jerusalem
Topography: coast, mountains, Jordan Valley, and desert
Climate: moderate
Altitude: 1,200 m above sea level to 400 m below sea level
History: one million years
Population: 10 million
Language: first alphabet to Arabic
Religion: monotheistic
Culture: diverse
World Heritage: Jerusalem and Bethlehem
National Poet: Mahmoud Darwish
Political System: constitutional, democratic
Nakba: 66 years
Refugees: 58 camps
Military Occupation: since 1967
Separation Wall: 770 km
Checkpoints: 600+
Flora: 10 million olive trees, citrus trees, figs, and vineyards
Cuisine: maqluba, mansaf, musakhan, and khubeiza
Breakfast: olive oil and za’atar
Sweets: kanafeh
Snack: falafel
National Hope: freedom

Dead Sea. Photo by Hayel Baraat.

Jerusalem. Photo by Tarek Bakri

Photo by Shareef Sarhan.

Photo from Palestine Image Bank.

• Image, Word, and Text Promoting Palestinian Cultural Identity
  By Ali Qleibo

 
• Palestinian Public Diplomacy
  By R.S. Zaharna

Palestine Youth Orchestra in Greece. Photo courtesy of ESNCM.

• If Content Is King, Let Palestine Ascend the Throne
  By Anan Abu Rmieleh

Photo by Emile Ashrawi.

Photo by Tarek Bakri.

Photo by Elias Halabi.

• Seizing the Opportunity through Public Diplomacy
  By Hiba Darwish

Photo by Emile Ashrawi.

Detail from Helen Zughaib’s “Another Wall.”

Photo by Emile Ashrawi.

 
• Jericho Gate An Interview with Samir Hulileh, CEO PADICO Holding

 
• Noor Daoud A Woman Who Breaks into a Man’s World
  By Murad Idrisi

Book of the Month
Olives, Lemons & Za’atar The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking

Look Inside (& maybe buy)

Olives, Lemons & Za'atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking Hardcoverby Rawia Bishara

 
• Exhibition Review
  GENTLY I PRESS THE TRIGGER

 
• Personality of the Month
  Ihab Al Jariri

 
• Where to Go ?
  WHERE TO GO? - Al-Nabi Musa

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