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Documentary film: Stitching Palestine

Hosted by Palestine Museum US

Saturday September 14, Free virtual screening of documentary film “Stitching Palestine,” directed by Carole Mansour.

Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, Running Time 77 minutes, English with English subtitles as applicable.

The film screening will be followed by discussions with film director and producer.

About the Film:

Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and talk of their life before the Diaspora, of their memories, of their lives and of their identity.
Their narratives are connected by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery.

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Palestine Museum US online weekend events.

Film screening The Orphan.

Saturday September 7, A short (12:36), but very important film, “The Orphan,” directed by Jordan Karr-Morse, and produced by Miko Peled.

About the Film: Orphaned by the holocaust, 90-year-old Jacques Bude recounts his time in post-1948 Israel/Palestine, and why his experience with genocide compelled him to the Palestinian cause.

Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EDT; 19:00 Palestine, 18:00 Europe, Duration: 12:36; English subtitles.

Released May, 2024.

The film screening will be followed by discussions with film director Jordan Karr-Morse, and producer Miko Peled.

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Click here to watch the trailer

Sunday Sep 8, 2024, Program starts 12:00 Noon US EDT; 18:00 Europe; 19:00 Palestine; 17:00 UK.

Madafeh: Live from Gaza, our guest is Dr. Khalil Khalidy, surgeon and artist, currently at one of the hospitals in Gaza.

Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Khalil Khalidy, an artist surgeon currently practicing at one of the hospitals in Gaza. We will ask him to tell us about his experiences during the last several months and the artwork he is making – two works will be in the Palestine Museum US exhibit at P21 Gallery in London, “Art of Palestine | from the river to the sea,” Sep 26 — Dec 21, 2024.

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Shereen Malherbe on Galloway’s The Mother of all Talk Shows

Too much is happening to stay silent.

I will be on Galloway’s show this evening to talk about the situation in Palestine and how it’s not being broadcast in mainstream media.

If you can’t watch the show live, you can catch up on his channel.

Al-Shabaka – Gaza: Testing Ground for Israel’s Global Weapons Industry.

(Reposted from Al-Shabaka)

Gaza: Testing Ground for Israel’s Global Weapons Industry

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | 9am ET/4pm Palestine Time

For years, Israel’s rapidly growing military industrial complex has turned the regime into a leading exporter of sophisticated weaponry and cutting edge spyware. For just as long, Israel has used Palestinians under occupation and blockade as unwilling test subjects for its increasingly deadly and oppressive weapons technologies. From Pegasus spyware to attack drones to AI targeting systems, Israel now exports its tools of subjugation to oppressive forces across the globe. And for more than 10 months, Israel has been testing out advanced AI targeting systems to streamline the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.In our upcoming policy lab, Marwa Fatafta and Antony Loewenstein join host Tariq Kenney-Shawa to discuss Gaza as a testing ground for Israel’s global war industry

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Marwa Fatafta is an Al-Shabaka policy analyst and leads Access Now’s policy and advocacy work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Her work spans a number of issues at the nexus of human rights and technology, including content governance and platform accountability, online censorship, surveillance, and transnational repression. Marwa is also an advisory board member of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, and an advisory committee member for Bread&Net.

Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, author, filmmaker and co-founder of Declassified Australia. He’s written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and many others. His books include the global best-seller The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World and My Israel Question.

Tariq Kenney-Shawa is Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow and co-host of Al-Shabaka’s Policy Lab series. He holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. Tariq’s research and writing have covered a range of topics, from the role of open-source intelligence in exposing Israel’s war crimes to analysis of Palestinian liberation tactics.

Note: This discussion will take place in English. Our policy labs are supported through the generosity of donors. They are free to attend, though we accept contributions on a sliding scale upon registration to help sustain the program.

Are you looking for a Writing Coach?

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce that I will be taking on a limited number of clients for writing coach sessions.

Embarking on your own literary project is an exciting, thrilling and often life-changing experience.

However, the life of a writer can be one that’s quite isolated and with a plethora of well-meaning advice out there, it can be impossible to wade through it all. What advice is right for you?

A Writing Coach can help by being a professional guide through your own individual projects and ambitions to aid you both technically and emotionally with your own unique writing goals.

With experience in publishing novels, children’s books, research pieces, academia and regularly for the world’s most prestigious literary magazine, I would like to be that mentor alongside you.

With online one-to-one sessions, you will have a story technician by your side as you conquer becoming the writer you have always imagined.

Places are limited, so if you would like to be part of the coaching sessions, please email hello@shereenmalherbe.com with a 500 word synopsis of your project, your bio and your ambitions and how you think a Writing Coach will help you.

I will be selecting clients shortly so don’t miss this opportunity!

To find out more about me, just search for the projects and publications under Shereen Malherbe or visit my homepage.

Palestinian literary critic reviews new novel, Yassini Girls.

Many people around the world are shocked at the scale of the assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the extent of the bloodthirsty hatred poured upon them. It is bewildering how Palestinians manage to endure all that hardship! How they bear all the calamities and cling to the remnants of a devastated homeland! How Palestine’s soil, mixed with the blood of loved ones, can be so precious that people remain attached to it, waiting for more deadly bombs to fall from the sky! This novel, written before the latest aggression on Gaza, tries to give answers to these questions, and brings the reader closer to understanding the reality of what is happening.

The novel “Yassini Girls” retells the well-known events of a massacre that occurred seventy-six years ago in Deir Yassin – near Jerusalem. Even though the details of the massacre are known to anyone interested in the Palestinian cause, the author manages to weave together the threads of this story and produce a new work that shines a light on it from new angles. The novel presents the tragic events in a new form, helping the reader to understand what has happened and what is happening now. It helps readers to grasp why countless massacres against the Palestinian people have occurred, the extent of global complicity, and the enduring resilience of the Palestinian people and how they are deeply rooted in their land.

It is amazing how the author managed to maintain a sense of suspense and anticipation into a story whose details are known to the reader. To do so, she has utilized two essential elements that play a pivotal role in Palestinian culture and have significant symbolism in Palestinian history. They are stone and embroidery. Using these elements she crafted a captivating tale, dressing it in a new garb that keeps the reader engaged until the very end. The reader then emerges with a fresh, vivid image of what happened in Deir Yasin.

Stone symbolizes the land and the people who shaped it to build timeless houses. It reflects the piles of debris, that are testament to the occupiers’ brutality and lack of understanding of the land to which they claim ancestral ties. Then, stone is a symbol of the Palestinian people’s resilience and resistance to Occupation. It also reminds humanity with the children, who were desperate to the extent that they picked up rocks and threw them at the occupier’s armored vehicles, which rained them with bullets. The Stone Uprising has become a landmark in contemporary Palestinian history and a symbol of the struggle of the oppressed anywhere on Earth.

The embroidery on the Palestinian women dresses, with designs and patterns deeply rooted in the Palestinian history, depicts the features of Palestinian culture that have continued for thousands of years. It celebrates the beauty that fills this blessed land despite all the bloodshed it has witnessed since the Western colonial winds began to blow death and destruction upon it. Stone and embroidery meet at the end of the novel to reveal secrets that the land of Deir Yassin has kept for decades.

The author uses a first-person narrative style, with multiple narrators in different chapters of the novel. The picture becomes complete by the end, revealing the ideas the author has woven throughout its various chapters. She relies on oral accounts from real people, her personal experiences, and her family’s history. In all these chapters, a woman is the narrator, the witness, the victim, and the heroine who emerges from the womb of suffering strong and proud.

Furthermore, the author was able to add a human dimension to the cold events of history, which are always dictated by the victor and stripped of the human emotions that touched everyone involved. In fact, massacres don’t only cause the death of innocent people, but they also leave scars in the hearts of those who survive and shape their lives. This book may help us, as we hear and see the brutal massacres in Gaza, to comprehend the profound impact on the survivors’ souls and how their lives will be shaped for decades to come, tainted by images of blood and dismemberment.

Palestinian literary critic, Abdallah DaisAug. 12, 2024

Screening the film “The West Bank’s Unseen Conflict – Palestine Museum US

Saturday August 3, 2024, 12:00 PM US EDT, 18:00 Europe; 19:00 Palestine.

Screening the film “The West Bank’s Unseen Conflict: Palestinians Documenting Israeli Violence,” by Paul Moreira, 84 minutes, English with English subtitles.

There is an invisible war going on in the West Bank. The Israeli settlers are waging a daily war on the Palestinians who remain; they harass their neighbours, attack their houses, move their livestock and generally make life unbearable for them.

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Beacon Books releases Palestinian novel, Yassini Girls.

Beacon Books ‘To understand Gaza today, you need to read Yassini Girls: clever, historically aromatic, a combination of
past and present.’ – Lauren Booth

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With the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it is more crucial than ever to understand Palestine’s history. Yassini Girls, a new novel by British Palestinian author Shereen Malherbe, offers an intimate portrayal where the past is not resigned to the history books; it is happening now and for the survivors of it, it is their lived reality. 

After appearing on the BBC documentary, The Holy Land and Us, Malherbe was inspired to write her own exploration of the unravelling of her family’s past and how it is linked to one of the most devastating massacres in Palestinian history: Deir Yassin. Based on true events, it is a moving story about tragedy, identity and belonging, and of the incredible resilience of the Palestinian people.
More Info About the AuthorShereen Malherbe is a British Palestinian author. She is recognized for her work with various media organisations, where she advocates for authentic Palestinian voices and the preservation of Palestinian heritage. She is the author of four novels and a children’s series, and her short story, The Cypress Tree, has been published in 
. She has also been nominated for The Palestine Book Awards.

Her involvement in the BBC documentary film, The Holy Land and Us – Our Untold Stories, was the inspiration for the story told in Yassini Girls and explored her own family links to the 1948 Nakba, a catastrophic event etched into the national consciousness of Palestine. Visit her website here.

Publication Day – A New Palestinian Novel – Yassini Girls

Yassini Girls

‘A captivating discovery of Palestinian history as it ricochets through generations.’

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“Truth must never be immured in silence and Malherbe’s Yassini Girls is able to harvest voices from the past and dares to cast light on hidden carnages to unveil man to man, and unveil man to himself”

Yousef Khanfar- Palestine Prize Foundation

After appearing on the BBC documentary, The Holy Land and Us; Our Untold Stories, Malherbe was inspired to write her own exploration of the unravelling of her family’s past and how it is linked with one of the most devastating massacres in Palestinian history.

Yassini Girls follows her journey to discover her family’s past and how it is inextricably linked to Palestine’s future.

With the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it is more crucial than ever to understand Palestine’s history. Yassini Girls offers an intimate portrayal where the past is not resigned to the history books; it is happening now and for the survivors of it, it is their current lived reality. Yassini Girls offers that window.

Based on a true story, Yassini Girls seeks to understand how the Nakba is lived every single day through the eyes of its survivors. With a Nakba happening right now that we are witnesses of, Yassini Girls reminds us of both historical and generational trauma and the enduring legacy of Palestine through its people.

BLURB

In an ancient house behind stone walls in the Old City of Jerusalem, an unexpected phone call reignites a past Fatima has long buried. Thousands of miles away in the British countryside, a family heirloom buried beneath an attic floor forces Layla to journey into the darkest parts of Palestinian history. Separated by distance and time, the lives of these two women are stitched together in a way neither of them could have imagined.

Yassini Girls is a multi-generational novel that explores trauma, belonging, and preserving tradition against all odds to secure our present. Based on the author’s own experience following a BBC documentary film, Yassini Girls reminds us how our past will always be part of our future.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shereen Malherbe is an author of multiple novels and a Palestinian children’s series. She is a writer and researcher featured in the Media Diversified expert’s directory, attends literary festivals, media events and is published in the US literary magazine, World Literature Today. Her latest novel, The Land Beneath the Light, and children’s book, The Girl Who Stitched the Stars, were both nominated for the Palestine Book Awards.

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For more information and media events on Yassini Girls visit here.

Shereen is available for interviews and book events.

For further information please contact: hello@shereenmalherbe.com

For book orders contact: info@beaconbooks.net

To order: Visit Beacon Books

Author website: http://www.shereenmalherbe.com

BOOK DETAILS

Published: July 2024

Beacon Books

Paperback £9.99

ISBN: 978-1-915025-94-4

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