While growing up as a refugee in Lebanon Iqbal Al Assaad has had a dream since childhood to be a doctor when she grew up, to help Palestinians and relative she used to visit on trips back home in Palestine.
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I 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.
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I 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.
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We have only just commemorated the Nakba, which is one of the most important dates in our History as Palestinians, remembering the catastrophe of being uprooted 67 years ago. This is a symbolic day to all Palestinians.
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I have been catapulted into the world of cyberspace since launching and writing my cookbook app. For reasons that are obvious. I am connecting with like minded people, learning, reading, observing and experimenting.
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I 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.
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In California, a group of students formed Students for Justice of Palestine (SJP) at Pitzer College which is in southern California. They have created a sixty foot mock wall on campus showing Israels violation to the Palestinians and focusing on the apartheid behaviour of Israel.
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It 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.
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We all know that marathons are long, longer than 5 miles, 10 miles, even 20 miles. The Palestinians of Bethlehem know this more than we do. As they prepare for their training and running, they are very much hit by a structure that they cannot go around or run around.
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A 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.
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An 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.
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In the West Bank city of Jenin actors are using the stage to rewrite the script of Palestine. This method of using the stage and screen as a vehicle for social change and resistance.
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A thirteen year old boy Named Mohammad Quraiqe, has been getting much attention for his beautiful and creative artworks. He comes form a town that has been hit the hardest from Israel last summer. This town is called Shujaiya.
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I don't like to write about sad things on my blog and this is both sad and beautiful at the same time. It is about a girl who is truly a sign of hope for Gaza and Palestine.How she can recover from such a thing and how she didn't drop a tear when she was hit with shrapnel in her face and her whole body.
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A 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,
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Vintage posters.
I was going through many websites sitting in a cottage in Whitstable having a very relaxed time reading and writing blog posts that show positive things in Palestine, and I came across some amazing vintage posters that were done int he 20's and 30's in Palestine.
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This video says it all. Have a serving of controversy. Absolutely delicious!
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Before the war in Palestine and Gaza in particular, the cars that were being driven around were fashionable and trendy, from Europe and home built. They had since been taken over by the Jewish community/soldiers to use while patrolling the area.
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Some 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.
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Isn'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.
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