Conflict
Hopes Beyond Borders: Palestinian Youth Use Media Production to Promote Change
Conflict
Education
Human rights
Far Beyond the Rockets: Southern Israel Starts to Bloom with New Initiatives
Conflict
Economics
Urban development
Drawing on Common Ground: Lessons from the Arava Institute
How one institute in the Arava desert, born from the optimism of the Oslo Accords, still seeks to make peace out of some of the scarcest resources in the Middle East.
Agriculture and Rural Development
Climate and Environment
Conflict
Education
Applied Ethnomusicology for Community Healing: The Case of Yazidi Musical Heritage
Art
Community development
Conflict
Education
Public Health
Refugees
SDGs
Urban Development in Ramallah: Between Now and Then, a Vanishing Childhood Memory
Conflict
Urban development
What it Means to Learn Hebrew and Arabic in Jerusalem
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Conflict
Education
Urban development
Urban Development in Ramallah: Between Now and Then, a Vanishing Childhood Memory
Ahmed Yasin
Ramallah today is a product of its history—not only centuries of continuous habitation, but also the reality of occupying and economic forces ignoring the needs of its population. Ahmed Yasin argues that urban development must be tied to local history—and the knowledge of the city’s inhabitants is an important asset in this case.
What it Means to Learn Hebrew and Arabic in Jerusalem
Elianne Kramer
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reclaiming Space in a Divided City
Liel Maghen and Tariq S. Nassar
This paper will present the differences between the approaches towards the notion of “land,” examining the political implication of “placemaking” activities such as forming shared public spaces neutral of national meaning, across the city of Jerusalem.