Items by Anjuman Rahman
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- February 14, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Kidnapped Syrian boy returned to his family
The news that Fawaz had been reunited with his family had people all over the world expressing their relief on Twitter following up with the hashtag 'Save Fawaz Al-Qutayfan'....
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- February 11, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Key to Return: A provocative look at the lives of Palestinians living under occupation
“Take your boots off my son now!” roars Taslima. A pin-drop silence instantly falls over the auditorium. “Don’t point your guns in their faces. They’ve done nothing wrong!” she pleads with the Israeli soldier. “Don’t shout, Taslima. It won’t help,” Ahmed begs. “My old mother is in a wheelchair, sick...
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- February 1, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
This Palestinian oud player performs on the roofs of homes facing demolition
Canaan Ghoul stood tall and proud on the roof of the Salehiyah family home as it awaited demolition by the Israelis recently. He played traditional Palestinian folk songs on his oud while residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem sang along. It was a sight for sore...
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- January 21, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Nine years in Australia’s immigration detention regime, Mehdi Ali is battling suicidal thoughts
Mehdi Ali was only 15 when he made the dangerous journey to Australia by boat in 2013, fleeing persecution in Iran, as members of the Ahwazi Arab minority. “Since then, for nine years now, I’ve been detained under cruel circumstances in offshore and onshore detention centres,” said Mehdi. Marking yet another...
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- January 14, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Meet Gaza’s first national amputee football team training for the Amputee Football World Cup
“It all started about a year and a half ago,” recalled Numan Abu Shamla, Secretary General of the Palestine Amputee Football Association. “They are the first Palestinian national football team made up entirely of amputees, who lost their limbs under different unfortunate circumstances as a result of the Israeli siege.” The...
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- January 7, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
It’s time to talk about mental health and healing in the Middle East, new Palestine start-up says
When lifelong worrier Sondos Mleitat was forced to discreetly sneak across her university corridors to visit the mental health counsellor and seek help, it was the prompt she needed to realise the gap in the Palestinian market for services that are easy to access and culturally sensitive. As an architectural...
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- December 9, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
Miss Universe contestants accused of ‘Israelising’ Palestinian culture
Miss Universe contestants accused of 'Israelising' Palestinian culture...
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- December 8, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
'The colours that best describe life in prison, in Palestine, is black,' says Cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh
Mohammad Sabaaneh, a political cartoonist, endured two weeks of his detention in solitary confinement before being held in an Israeli prison for five months. He says the Israeli government cracks down on Palestinians who use art to oppose occupation....
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- December 6, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
I want the world to share the Palestinian experience through my book, says Swedish journalist
Swedish journalist Lena Fredriksson’s account of everyday life under Israel’s West Bank occupation is informed and passionate. All Quiet on the West Bank? Living under prolonged occupation pulls no punches in its critique of Israeli policies, including the imprisonment of children in military prisons and checkpoints which restrict freedom...
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- November 28, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
The Sinsila Project sees Palestinian beekeepers taking over East Jerusalem rooftops
Rooftops in occupied East Jerusalem are being used by Palestinian women for innovative beekeeping and gardening to combat the challenges of life in the cramped, cobbled neighbourhoods of the Old City. With unemployment and poverty rates surging due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Sinsila Project, founded by Tariq Nassar,...
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- November 1, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
Artists nominate Palestinian refugee camp for UNESCO world heritage status
During the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe), the nascent Israeli army occupied more than 40 Palestinian villages to the west of Jerusalem. The residents were driven out of their homes and took refuge in what is now known as the occupied West Bank. Up to 15,000 of these refugees settled in Dheisheh...
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- October 28, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
UAE, Morocco to take part in Miss Universe in Israel amid calls for boycott
Candidates from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Morocco will take part in the Miss Universe pageant in Israel in December, ignoring calls for a boycott. The 70th Miss Universe competition will be held in the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat on 12 December, confirmed the Israeli Ministry of...
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- October 20, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
MEMO in conversation with Jason Sherman
Watch our live interview of Jewish Canadian Playwright and Film Director Jason Sherman...
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- October 17, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
Cyclists travelled 2,400km to spell out ‘Refugees Welcome’ in the UK
Breaking a Guinness World Record for the largest GPS drawing ever created, the pair also raised money for charity projects which support asylum seekers ...
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- October 15, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
Know Your Rights and Claim Them: A Guide for Youth
Whether it is Israeli soldiers assualting and detaining groups of Palestinian schoolchildren, Syrian refugee children stranded in camps in sub zero temperatures without protection and food, or Uyghur minors separated from their parents and forced into state orphanages, there is plenty of evidence that the rights of children are...
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- October 4, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance
“Walking through the town square in El-Bireh, I’d noticed a little Palestinian boy selling Wrigleys — they call it taxi gum — five shekels for five pieces. The child was maybe ten years old and not well kept. His red shirt was too small for him, and was torn...
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- September 29, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
The Gilboa Prison escape meant a lot for our freedom struggle, says Gaza sand sculptor
Using one of the world’s most abundant and renewable elements, Palestinian sand artist Rana Al-Ramlawi highlights the Palestinian cause and Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip in her work. Based in Tel Al-Hawa, an area of Gaza devastated by Israel’s bombardment in May, the 26 year old creates ephemeral...
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- September 13, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
‘The air we breathe is being weaponised to attack people on multiple scales,’ says Prof Eyal Weizman
Death, destruction and endless streams of refugees have become a common theme in the documentation of war, to the point of becoming almost numbing in their repetitiveness. However, another deadly killer dominates those areas of conflict; one which doesn’t immediately meet the eye. Forensic Architecture’s Director, Professor Eyal Weizman, exposes in...
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- September 3, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
‘Western media has worked overtime to demonise the valiant people of Afghanistan,’ says Taliban leader
In the early hours of Tuesday, the Taliban celebrated the departure of the last US plane of soldiers and their ambassador from Afghanistan, after a 20-year US-led occupation of the country. Jubilant members of the Taliban paraded the streets of Kabul, as their leaders marked what they called Afghanistan’s “independence...
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- August 27, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
The PA is an obstacle to freedom
Last weekend, 24 Palestinian activists demanding accountability for the death of fellow campaigner Nizar Banat were arrested, detained and brutally beaten in custody by members of the Palestinian Authority security services. The activists had gathered for a peaceful demonstration in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah; the violent...
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- August 15, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
‘Arabs couldn’t believe there is a Jewish Israeli criticising Israel in Arabic’, comedienne Noam Shuster says
Before pursuing a career in comedy, Noam worked as the co-director of Interpeace, an organisation founded by the UN...
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- August 8, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
Military checkpoints must be watched, insists Israeli activist
Day after day, Palestinians wait for long hours at chaotic Israeli military checkpoints intended to break their morale, destroy their dignity and inject fear into them. It’s a heartbreaking sight. The checkpoints are scattered across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. They are a potent symbol of the occupation,...
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- July 23, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
The people of Beita will use every means to keep their land free,’ says Palestinian activist
Beita is the only village around southern Nablus that does not have an illegal Israeli settlement built on its land. The Palestinians are determined to keep it that way. “The people of Beita completely reject the presence or even the idea of settlements,” activist and photographer Baraa Hussein told me....
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- July 9, 2021 Anjuman Rahman
Israel isn’t fooling anyone by speaking up for Uyghur Muslims; its self-interest is obvious
Last month, Israel called out China over human-rights abuses against more than one million ethnic Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. This was reportedly after US pressure to do so. Ironically, Israel’s sudden interest in human rights followed its 11 day military offensive against Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip. Israeli bombs...