I just saw this and i love it. I think that Adele's song has seen many versions come out of it and many sarcastically. But this one is just my favourite. I love the hope and rawness of it. Also the music from Adele just make sit work perfectly. Listen to the words and think......
Read MoreI started this app/blog with the intention to bring a voice to Palestinian Food, Culture and history. I have loved receiving all types of messages and connecting with people from all over who have shown support and some whose eyes have been opened. This world of the internet and cyberspace is truly wonderful.
Read MoreSince beginning this journey of Palestine On A Plate i have had some wonderful encounters with people and some also very aggressive ones too. But since I am here to promote positive sides of Palestine, i shall not go down that road.
Read MoreI have been very lucky that i have good friends, some luck with publicity and people who are interested in my work. I have been asked to participate in several supper clubs serving Palestinian food. I have said yes to all of them as i think it is time people knew how wonderful our food is.
Read MoreI just watched a clip of what i thought was an extremely touching, eye opening scene to Gaza and the people living there. The music is beautiful and the people excited to be a part of it. Gaza has had its first red carpet experience, literally. There was a film festival on human rights and nowhere else would this have been more fitting then in Gaza.
Read MoreI have not written for a few weeks as i have been a little busy with Palestine On A Plate and also to be honest, i have been feeling a little disturbed by the news and what has been happening in Palestine and the rest of the world.
Read MoreIt has been a long time coming. A long time that Palestine was acknowledged and its people recognised. And no better place to begin that the ICC. This April 1st 2015, The ICC welcomed Palestine as the 123rd state to its founding Rome statute.
Read MoreA good story. A happy story with positive endings.
These two Palestinian refugees, Abdallah and Ammar, have left their besieged home in Palestine and refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria, to attend Eton, thanks to the Cogito Foundation.
Read MoreAn American journalist, Heidi Levine, based in Jerusalem has been awarded for her work In Gaza, and has been chosen by the International Women's Media Foundation to receive an award for her work in this part of the world.
Read MoreA Chilean football team called Palestino has redesigned their football gear and to say that it is AMAZING is an understatement. They have substituted the number 1 with the Palestinian flag and kept the colours of Palestine, red, white, black and green.
In the 20's, Palestinian immigrants who fled to Chile founded a football club called Deportivo Palestino. This is based in Santiago. Chile has one of the biggest Palestinian communities outside of Palestine,
Read MoreSome months ago, after operation Protective edge, Qatar became the first country to offer financial aid to Gaza. It has apparently bid between 1-5 Billion dollars to help reconstruct the city to rebuild the homes lost in this massacre.
As of four days ago, several trucks have been arriving in Gaza to begin this new chapter. Its the first time since Israels military offensive that anyone has been allowed in to Gaza. The gulf state also hosts the exiled leaders of Hamas, the Islamist faction that still dominates Gaza.
Read MoreIsn't it an amazing thing when technology can become a weapon for good rather than evil, to help change the idea and thought about something or someone. Hamas are suggesting a new way that is in their control, to answer questions from the public via twitter with the hash-tag #AskHamas.
Read MoreI write this with great pride an pleasure to have so many wonderful women in the Arab world who are making a difference in every different aspect of the market.
I have been noticing that the media has been focusing a lot on positive news about Arabs and Muslims. Not the mainstream ones necessarily but the ones that I read.
This is a great list to be part of and 5 out of 100 are from Palestine. AMAZING!
Teach them from when they are young to be strong successful women of our future generations!
Read MoreGAZA ART
Although this is not necessarily recent, it is still valid. Turning a negative situation into a positive one is always a good thing, and no better way to do it than with art.
Of course everyone and their mother saw what happened last year in Gaza, and if you didn't you must have been on another planet.
Read MoreBeing a chef is a hard job and working hard means that you get a great reward after. This has definitely been the case for me. I met Loyd Grossman in my restaurant Baity Kitchen a few years ago. He was a regular there on the weekends. I loved that he loved my place. I also love him as a person and for all the work he has done and continues to do. His sauces are the best out there!
Read MoreI stumbled across this the other day and I thought how amazing this was. Based in a very central main European country and town with people from Palestine showcasing first hand their feeling, their experience and their love for Palestine.
Read MoreLast night I really felt like I needed some home comforts. I have moved to a new place in Chiswick and wanted to feel at home.
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