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Tarek Bakri

A Palestinian born researcher based in Jerusalem who was moved by the nostalgia and emotion still held by many displaced Palestinians for their former homes and villages. After graduating from Al-Ahliyya University in Jordan as a Computer Engineer, he developed the idea of documenting these personal stories and the displaced Palestinian villages through a personal initiative of visual documentation and thus his 8-year ongoing project of “We Were and Still Are... Here” was launched.

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Proceeds Go to Algerian Activists

  Proceeds Go to Algerian Activists When Jerusalem city was under Jordanian rule 66 years ago, the Algerian Al-Ittihad football team was a welcome guest to the holy city.A friendly match with the Jerusalemite Muazzafin Club team was held at Al-Mutran (St. George’s) School Stadium in a spirit of... Read More

Grandma's Palm Tree

What is that secret of the Bond between Palestinians and their Grandmothers? The grandmother expelled from her coastal hometown north of Akka in 1948 to become a refugee in a camp in northern Syria. Second and third generations brought up on a diet of stories told by their Teitas (grandmothers),... Read More

Khalil Al-Sakakini

The house of the Palestinian writer, scholar, poet and Arab nationalist Khalil Al-Sakakini who is a leading intellectual of literature, and the father of the ideological and literal novelty in Palestine and the Arab world. His daughter Hala recalls in her book "Jerusalem & I" that her father... Read More

Lammeh Event

Al Hussein Cultural Center -Amman
23-11-2019

Missing 48 Film - Jordan

Jordan
300
28-03-2019

Italy- We Were and Still Are..Here

University of Turin University of Padova University of Venice University of Bologna 
Italy
21-03-2019

Lammeh Event

Al Hussein Cultural Center -Amman
23-11-2019

Missing 48 Film - Jordan

Jordan
300
28-03-2019

Italy- We Were and Still Are..Here

University of Turin University of Padova University of Venice University of Bologna 
Italy
21-03-2019