Culture and Heritage Archives

Global Citizenship: Isn’t it more an identity we shall embrace?

Author: By Rachida, Morocco/Tunisia | Opinion
Published: April 29, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Identity, Life Style, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis, Tunisia
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Tags: Global Citizen, identity, Lifestyle

Isn’t it frustrating to only live once? A lot of exquisite spirits to meet and deep stories to hear. A lot of fabulous places to go and cultures to get inspired from. A lot to read about the world and to discover about yourself. A lot to receive and a lot to give to your […]

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Living between Two Countries-Under Stress

Author: By Aseel, Palestine | Opinion
Published: April 11, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: conflict, intifada, israel, palestine

The life of a Jerusalemite family after the second intifada “Alaqsa intifada” 2000-2005, During the period of the Palestinian second intifada (Intense Israeli-Palestinian violence period, Palestinians consider it as an uprising against Israel, while Israelis describe it as prolonged terror campaign), Israel used it as a pretext to control all areas in Jerusalem and control […]

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Podcast | A European in the Middle East, and a Middle Eastern in Europe: identities in contrast

Author: By Valeria & Zeyep, Turkey | Opinion
Published: March 29, 2021
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Identity, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: contrast, europe, identity, middle east

Come and hear this amazing podcast by Valeria & Zeyep.

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Who celebrates Nowruz?

Author: By Doā, Iraq
Published: March 21, 2021
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Iran, Iraq
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Tags: celebration, Kurds, New Year

Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, Germany, and Iran celebrate Newroz (alternatively pronounced Nowruz in Iran, as phonetic spelling varies) as their New Year’s Day on March 20th, the first day of Spring. Newroz originated in Persia in religious traditions of Zoroastrianism. Kurdish New Year’s Nowruz is the Kurdish celebration of the Persian […]

A grown-up child in a conflict-zone, by Aseel S, Palestine

Author: By Aseel S, Palestine
Published: February 24, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine
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Tags: checkpoint, Conflict-zone, storytelling

My name is Aseel and as a girl who was raised in a conflict, I got through a lot of stories I could tell you about. Still, I chose this one because it was the first time I realised that I was living in a conflict zone, and I will always suffer from it until […]

Opinion | Can Palestinians become less divided? By Alaa, Palestine

Author: By Alaa, Palestine
Published: January 17, 2021
Categories: in Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Identity, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: Divisions, Media, palestine, Relationship, Society, Solution

Can Palestinians become less divided? Since joining the Hebrew university 4 years ago, I started a long journey ofdiscovering new things, people, and cultures, which opened my eyes to the different views of Palestinians in their own eyes and the others’. I’m half Jerusalemite, was born and raised in the holy city and out […]

#Podcast Menstruations in the Arab world, by Sirine B, Tunisia

Author: Sirine B, Tunisia
Published: November 19, 2020
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Education, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Tunisia
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Fashion rights in Afghanistan, by Atiq Rahimi, Afghanistan

Author: Atiq R, Afghanistan
Published: October 8, 2020
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Development, Education, English, Human Rights, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: afghanistan, Clothing rights, Fashion, talibans, womensrights

The right to choose what kind of clothes to wear is considered one of the basic human freedoms today. There is a relation between what we wear and what kind of person we are. Like any other thing, clothing and fashion for both women and men in Afghanistan are influenced more by frequent changes […]

Amen, by Amalia, Israel/USA

Author: Amalia
Published: September 10, 2020
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Friendship, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis, Religion
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“Amen” I readjusted my posture as I sat on the uncomfortable wooden bench. To my left, my Mother sat singing the Friday night prayer. To my right, my Mother’s best friend’s two daughters sat shoulders drawn in. We were alone in the women section of the synagogue. Praying doesn’t seem so important when you have […]

Opinion | Between Two Extremes, By Fitnat Waked, Palestine-Israel

Author: By Fitnat Waked, Palestine-Israel
Published: June 9, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine
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Tags: Arab Israeli, Arabs and Jews, coexistence, Israely society, Palestinians of Israel, Shared society

Amid the struggle for recognition, acceptance, respect and the conflict with their own identities, Palestinian citizens of Israel need to find the middle ground. The middle ground is a place where Palestinian Israeli citizens live with a balance between their heritage and history, and the need and want to integrate and flourish within Israeli society. Despite the […]

Today is Yom haShoah, by Evie Leviten-Lawton, Israel

Author: By Evie Leviten-Lawton, Israel
Published: April 21, 2020
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Education, English, Identity, Israel, Tolerance
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Tags: genocide, holocaust, memorial, never again, Shoah

Today is Yom HaShoah in Israel. The day we remember six million Jews who were murdered, but not before they were rounded up like cattle, chased, hunted, beaten, starved, gassed, shot into mass graves, exhausted to death by work, by marches, by cruelty, separated from their loved ones, from everything they knew and loved, stripped […]

Photo Essay | History by Amir, Dalya, Mohammad, Sereen and Zo, Israel and Palestine

Author: Amir, Dalya, Mohammad, Sereen and Zo, Israel and Palestine
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Art, Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Photo Essays, Religion, Tolerance, כללי
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Jerusalem is a city with millennia-old stories to tell. But it is not a dead city. It is alive with stories being made as we speak. As they say today is tomorrow’s yesterday. In this photographic essay we tried to tap into the layers of history that make up this city – whether they are […]

Photo Essay | Life by Li-Or, Tamim, Besan, Tarneem and Mohammed, Israel and Palestine

Author: Li-Or, Tamim, Besan, Tarneem and Mohammed, Israel and Palestine
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Art, Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Photo Essays, Religion, Tolerance
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Life and death are just like light and darkness, love and hate, you can’t separate them .You need both of them to recognize each one of them. You want to know if you are alive? then you should know the opposite of […]

Opinion | The Isolation of West Bank Palestinian Women by Aida Zsófia, Palestine

Author: Aida Zsófia, Palestine
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Recently, the murder of Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian girl from Bethlehem turned the spotlight on the situation of Palestinian women, the spatial isolation of them in the West Bank and the phenomena standing behind it. Generally, with regards to the situation of the Palestinian women there are two determining arguments. Some people might say […]

Opinion | SHE FOR SHE: Together Stronger to Achieve Gender Equality by Iness, Algeria

Author: Iness, Algeria
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Algeria, Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Identity, Opinion and Analysis, Tolerance
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Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but also a necessary foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. It consists of equal access to opportunities, regardless of gender. Nowadays and despite all the developments the world is witnessing, all the feminist movements, human rights campaigns and the massive changes that have been realized […]

Opinion | Do Right by Those who are Already a Part of Us by Inbal, Israel

Author: Inbal Baron, Israel
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Sudan, Tolerance, כללי
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A week before the September elections, ynet published an article focusing on the policies of the various political parties concerning the immigration issue. Representing the Likud party in the article, was May Golan, who had led the struggle to deport African asylum seekers (“infiltrators”) and who became an MK in the period between the April […]

Opinion | Women in Libya: Caught between Hope and the Civil War by Eman, Libya

Author: Eman, Libya
Published: December 9, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Development, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Libya, Opinion and Analysis, כללי
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Women in Libya who are trying to find a job are facing multiple challenges, and the civil war is just one of them. Staying safe, working far off from the places of the conflict, finding a job near the home way, and many other conditions women workers in Tripoli finding themselves set as a must […]

Her Pright by James S Namalira, Nigeria

Author: James S Namalira, Nigeria
Published: December 9, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Nigeria, Tolerance
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A true life experience of Kozito Eze I was in Lagos for a weekend for a couple of meetings and other personal arrangements sometime in May. I had to make the quick trip totally unplanned because of how important personally, securing bags is to me. But, I had to make a quick return to my […]

Kurdish Tragedy: The Ugly, the Bad & the Good by Pablo, Mexico

Author: Pablo Q Zepeda, Mexico
Published: November 3, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Identity, Kurdistan, Politics, Syria
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Tags: Kurdish from Syria, Kurdistan, Kurds

I am writing about a group of human beings in the Middle East, that conforms around 30 and 40 million people, who live in a diaspora calculated in a number close to one million and a half people. The people I am referring to are the Kurds. While I was studying for my Bachelors in International Relations at ITESO University in Guadalajara, Mexico, […]

Opinion | Muslim Women and the Hijab : To Save or not to Save by Rima ahsissene, Morocco

Author: By Rima ahsissene, Morocco
Published: October 31, 2019
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Identity, Life Style, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Hijab: the headscarf worn by some Muslim women Last week, in France a mother accompanying her son on a field trip in Dijon was publicly and loudly asked to remove her Hijab by a far-right politician of the local assembly[i]. And last month, a teacher in a school in Montreal had two choices either remove […]