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Yemeni Muslims and Jews start family, by Mokhtar – Yemen

Published: March 6, 2018
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Identity, Tolerance, Yemen
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Tags: Islam, jews, judaism, lovemarriage, lovestory, marriage, mixmarriage, muslim, tradition, yemen

Around July 22, 2009, some Jewish families moved from Raidah district, Amran province, to Sawan area in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, the place where I used to live. I happened to be neighbors with a Yemeni guy called Abdurrahman who got married to a displace Jewish woman called Laiah. Raidah, a Yemeni village in Amran province […]

From Bad Encounters to Good Encounters by Omer, Yemen

Published: March 6, 2018
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Education, English, Human Rights, Identity, Yemen
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Tags: europe, fear, islamophobia, muslim, peacebuilding, racism, roommates, Stereotypes, understanding, yalacampaign, yemen, youth

This story is from the experience I had when I went to Germany for a one week academic program at Bremen University about four years ago. I had two roommates in my hotel room and we were all from different regions and different social and religious backgrounds. One was from Romania and the other was […]

Tunisia, my home by Siwar Terboubi, Tunisia – Photo Essay –

Published: January 22, 2018
Categories: in Identity
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Tags: #thinkactyala, arab, community, country, couscous, Culture, discovertheregion, Food, MENA, muslim, NorthAfrica, pride, region, Stereotypes, tradion, tradition, tunisia, Tunisian, tunisiantraditions

Here you will find pictures of Tunisia and some of its traditions. What can I possibly tell you about the country I’m proud to call HOME? Most of us dress like in Europe, we do, however, have a lot of beautiful traditional clothes that we wear on special occasions. We have, what I can judge […]

Beyond Good and Bad by Livnat Segev, Israel

Published: December 31, 2017
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Identity, Tolerance
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Tags: #thinkactyala, arab, dialogue, enemies, israel, IsraeliArab, israelipalestinian, IsraelPalestine, muslim, narratives, palestine, palestinian, peacebuilding

This story does not intend to choose sides, quite the opposite. Well aware of the complexity of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this short story aims to add another perspective – to the other hundreds of already existing ones. The story I am about to tell you happened during the summer of 2012, in a center called […]

A Letter to my Brothers and Sisters by Mouad Belahcen, Morocco

Published: February 13, 2015
Categories: in English, Identity
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Tags: identity, morocco, muslim, religion, terrorism, yala young leaders

Thanks to the internet, the world is bigger than 4 countries. In the past, multiple times, I have been asked to apologize on behalf of someone whom I have no affiliation with except that they have performed or are performing acts of terrorism in the name of a religion that I follow, the same one […]

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