Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Monday, July 13, 2020
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
"I Am From There" a poem by Mahmoud Darwish of Palestine
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| A Palestinian girl takes a closer look at cherry blossom at a park in central Hebron, in the West Bank
Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA photo published in the Guardian 2009 "In Bloom"
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I Am From There
Mahmoud Darwish - Palestine
I am from there and I have memories.
I was born, as all people are born.
I have a mother,
and a house with many windows.
I have brothers, friends,
and a prison with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by seagulls.
I have my own view,
and an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the ends of speech,
and the blessings of birds,
and an immortal olive tree.
I passed over this land before the swords
Turned its body into a table.
I am from here.
I return the sky to her mother,
when she weeps her mother.
I cry to make myself known,
to a returning cloud.
I learned all the words befitting of the court of blood,
so that I can I break the rule.
I learned all the words, and dismantled them,
To create a single word: homeland…
[Original Arabic]:
أنا من هناك
محمود درويش – فلسطين
أنا من هناك. ولي ذكرياتٌ . ولدت كما تولد الناس. لي والدة
وبيتٌ كثير النوافذِ. لي إخوةٌ. أصدقاء. وسجنٌ بنافذة باردهْ.
ولي موجةٌ خطفتها النوارس. لي مشهدي الخاص. لي عشبةٌ زائدهْ
ولي قمرٌ في أقاصي الكلام، ورزقُ الطيور، وزيتونةٌ خالدهْ
مررتُ على الأرض قبل مرور السيوف على جسدٍ حوّلوه إلى مائدهْ.
أنا من هناك. أعيد السماء إلى أمها حين تبكي السماء على أمها،
وأبكي لتعرفني غيمةٌ عائدهْ.
تعلّمتُ كل كلام يليقُ بمحكمة الدم كي أكسر القاعدهْ
تعلّمتُ كل الكلام، وفككته كي أركب مفردةً واحدهْ
…هي: الوطن
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Palestine EID MUBARAK Blessed Feast
Eid Mubarak or (Arabic: عيد مبارك) is an Arabic term that means “Blessed Feast/festival”.
If someone says Eid Mubarak to you, it is polite to respond by saying 'Khair Mubarak', which wishes good will on the person who greeted you. You could also say 'JazakAllah Khair' which means thank you, but literally translates as 'May Allah reward you with goodness'
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Friends of Kairos Palestine #Churches #Prayer #Christians #Hope #Love #Peace #Faith #Bethlehem #Palestine
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APARTHEID WALL ART |
“Our word is a cry of hope, with love, prayer and faith in God. We
address it first of all to ourselves and then to all the churches and
Christians in the world, asking them to stand against injustice and
apartheid, urging them to work for a just peace.”
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| APARTHEID WALL ART ICON CLOSEUP |
In this historic document, we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity, and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among peoples.
To read the document, click here:
http://www.kairospalestine.ps/?q=content/document
To sign the document, click here:
http://www.kairospalestine.ps/?q=node/19
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| It's a worrying and uncertain time right now for people across the globe, including in occupied #Palestine. Parts of the #WestBank remain on lock-down and already stretched #healthcare services face even greater challenges. We express our continued solidarity with all of those in the region. With the complete lock-down on the city of #Bethlehem, we hear that the usual #Friday prayers at the separation barrier went ahead online tonight instead. In these very difficult circumstances, work for #peace and #justice can and will continue. Let us keep our creativity and inspiration. We encourage you to keep following our social media in the coming weeks for more on how you can stay up to date and keep working for justice in these challenging times. #CoronaCrisis #Palestine #Israel #Solidarity #FridayPrayers |
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Celebrating Women's History Month:The exhibition "Telling the Palestinian Story" features more than 200 works of art by women spanning painting, sculpture, photography, textiles and mixed media.
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| A painting by Haya Kaabneh, who depicts the hardships of women under occupation. Faisal Saleh / Palestine Museum US |
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Preserving Palestinian History & Culture
Palestine Museum US was founded by Palestinian American businessman
Faisal Saleh who, after over 40 years of entrepreneurial work, is
turning his attention to managing the most ambitious Palestinian media
project in the United States. Located in Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA
Museum aims to bring the work of 50 Palestinian women artists to one show
'good part of the work
is that you can’t tell it’s Palestinian by looking at it – and that’s
intentional,' says Palestinian-American entrepreneur Faisal Saleh
The exhibition Telling the Palestinian Story, which opens today, features more than 200 works of art, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, textiles and mixed media. The participating artists, many of whom will be exhibiting their work in the US for the first time, are from 14 countries on five continents, including the US and Canada, Palestine, Kenya, Chile, Germany and the UK.... PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ THE ARTICLE IN FULL
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
"...the possibility of infinite development"
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| Susan Muaddi Darraj standing beside the Philadelphia Mural |
"This #Philadelphia #mural takes a quote by #WEBDuBois and translates it into #Arabic. (quote below)
It honors the neighborhood of Black Bottom, whose inhabitants were steadily displaced.
The mural was sponsored by @albustanseeds
"I believe that all men, black & brown & white, are brothers, varying through time & opportunity, in form & gift & feature, but differing in no essential partcular, & alike in soul & the possibility of infinite development."
- DuBois, Darkwater (1920) "
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
March First for Al Awda - a poem in Growing Gardens for Palestine by Anne Selden Annab
March First for Al Awda
My heart is with all
who march March 1st ...
with all who value every home
& family.
All who value freedom of
(and from) religion.
All who crave and help create
fair and just laws...
All who write stories and poems, and paint,
all who build beauty & museums for Palestine.
All who vote for full and equal rights
and respect.
Every step marched yesterday
today and tomorrow for Al Awda
is amplified a thousand fold,
by all who can not be there.
And amplified again, and again
for Al Awda, amplified a trillion fold
by every refugee.
My heart is with all
who march for real justice
and a lasting peace.
poem
copyright ©2020 Anne Selden Annab
Monday, February 3, 2020
Arab Jerusalem, Palestine long ago
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| Jerusalem Palestine old photograph by Félix Bonfils from the British Library |
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Diana Buttu in Newsweek: Trump's "Peace" Plan Risks Setting Fire to Israel, Palestine—and International Legal Order As We Know It
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"Beyond just Palestinians, many in the international community are deeply alarmed by the Trump/Kushner plan. As a precedent, it threatens to do away with the international legal system as we know it, including the idea that countries should not be allowed to acquire territory by force, replacing it with a system in which "might is right." The dangers beyond Palestine/Israel are obvious, including legitimizing Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea."
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