Beyond Good and Bad by Livnat Segev, Israel

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 …

Growing up in Gaza, by Khalil, Gaza, Palestine

My city affects my life and changes every single day. You wonder how? Let’s talk history a bit. I was born in 1994 when the Palestinian authority came to power. I don’t like to talk about history that I didn’t see or experienced... so I will start from where I can truly remember. The Fatah-Hamas …

‘The Same and the Other’ by Rafaela Barkay, Brasil

Recently a friend asked my opinion about the 2014 Palestinian Oscar-candidate movie “Omar”. Usually I don’t retain for too long the details from the films I watch, and I can watch them again two or three times until I start to recognize the story - which in some cases can be an advantage. But with …

What the press missed in Bil’in tear gas flower garden, by Elias Nawawieh, Palestine

This article was previously published in +972mag A garden of flowers planted in used tear gas grenades memorializes Bassem Abu Rahmah, killed by Israeli forces in 2009 in Bil’in. But recent AP photo coverage looks mostly at the flowers and misses the memorial. The act is one of both peaceful resistance and an answer to …

Unfair Game by Mohammed Zeidan, Palestine

The first time I saw the Yala Young Leaders Facebook page and their online university, I said to myself: “This is strange! What are these people trying to do?” Most people, on both sides of the conflict tend to think that peace and dialogue cannot happen. The circle of violence is simply going on and …

The Shyness Destination By Hamze Awawde, Palestine

A few weeks ago I took the train from Tel Aviv to Kiryat Gat, on my way back home to Dura. I bought a ticket to Kiryat Gat because it was closest to the Tarqumia checkpoint, which is the nearest checkpoint to Dura. It was my first time to travel by train in Israel, but …

Gaza….. I am free! by Feris Khder, Palestine

Looking at Gaza from the window of life, life in Gaza doesn’t help, serve, or support a free-man. Life in Gaza doesn’t know the rule of law, and it doesn’t add anything at all to positivity, rather it breaks everything within the gloomy view of life. This is reality in the Gaza Strip after it …