S3: Ramallah | E2: Mahmoud Darwish Museum
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was buried on this hilltop in Al Masyoun after his death in 2008. The museum exhibits include Darwish's briefcase, desk, and original copies of his work. Enjoy this peaceful site by living in the eyes of a man who spoke of love Palestinians have for the land.
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S3: Ramallah | E3: The Palestine Museum
The Palestinian Museum is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine. We managed to catch the Labour of Love Exhibition featuring hundreds of thobe with untold stories.
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Mahmoud Darwish museum celebrates Palestine's national poet
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As the sixth anniversary of the death of poet and author Mahmoud Darwish approaches, visitors have been flocking to a museum in Ramallah built to remember the man known as Palestine's 'national poet.'
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A video of Mahmoud Darwish dominates a room of displays chronicling the life of one of the greatest poets and commentators of contemporary Arab literature.
It's been two years since the opening of the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah, but a steady stream of visitors continue to visit, eager to capture a sense of his spirit, work and words.
From photographs to books, handwritten poems and personal belongings, an array of artefacts tell the story of the life of the man considered Palestine's most eminent poet.
Informed by his upbringing as an Arab-Israeli near the Israeli city of Haifa, Darwish spent fifty years writing poems on Palestinian exile and resistance to Israeli rule, until his death in 2008 aged 67.
Darwish published around thirty prose and poetry collections which have been translated into twenty two languages.
Volumes include the 'Olive Tree' and 'A Lover from Palestine', and the vitriolic poem 'Identity card'.
For Sameh Khader, the museum's manager, Darwish's part in creating a shared Palestinian national consciousness lies at the heart of the museum.
The Mahmoud Darwish Museum is the first of its kind in Palestine, he says. It shows respect for the role Darwish played in forming the cultural identity of the Palestinian people.
A photograph of a youthful Darwish looks out from his Israeli identity card, sitting alongside a warrant to place him under house arrest in 1967.
Daring to express nationalist feelings, restricted by law for Arab-Israelis, Darwish was arrested and imprisoned many times before finally emigrating from Israel in 1971.
He continued to write and play an active part in Palestinian politics from Moscow, Cairo, Beirut, Tunis and Paris before moving back to Ramallah in the West Bank in 1995.
The museum has recreated a room where Darwish sat and wrote his poems.
The poet's jacket is thrown over the back of the chair, as if he is due to return shortly.
One visitor, Thaer Ziadeh has visited the museum many times.
I like his poetry very much and every time I come I read his poetry scripts, he says Also, the view of the place is fantastic.
The museum preserves Darwish's legacy, but the museum's manager Sameh Khader stresses it's role as a place of education for future generations.
Palestinians in Ramallah are restricted from travelling outside the West Bank.
Khader says the museum allows them to learn about other influential writers from across the region.
We are trying to bypass the obstacles, the restrictions and the blockade that the occupation has imposed on the Palestinian movement, he says. At the Darwish Museum we have solved this problem, for example if the Palestinians can't go to Algeria to see Waciny Laredj (Algerian novelist, short story writer and academic) the museum has brought him here to meet his fans, and they are many.
Poets, musicians and dancers from across the region and beyond perform at the museum's outdoor theatre and garden on the hills overlooking Ramallah.
And the peaceful spot is also reserved for a much greater memorial.
Mahmoud Darwish is buried within the grounds of the museum.
Three days of mourning were declared when Darwish died on August 9th 2008 in Houston, Texas in the United States of America after complications from heart surgery.
For a poet who came to symbolise what it means to be Palestinian, the sign on his epitaph simply reads From the homeland...to Mahmoud Darwish.
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S3: Ramallah | E5: Yasser Arafat Museum
This museum is an educational and cultural exhibit that aims to showcase to the people of Palestine and the world, the narrative of the Palestinian National Movement through the life and work of Yasser Arafat, the historic leader of the Palestinian people.
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Ramallah and the Tomb of Mahmoud Darwish
Growing up, the only Palestinian I was aware of was Yasser Arafat. But a thoughtful museum at the tomb of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish introduced me to the author and poet who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. Darwish, who died in 2008, worked with Arafat but used a pen rather than a gun as his weapon. Subscribe to for regular updates as I travel through Egypt, Israel and Palestine.
Israelis take rare tour of Palestinian stronghold of Ramallah
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Road connecting Jerusalem to Ramallah
1. Tracking of cars on road leading to Ramallah
2. Wide of tour participants on bus going to Ramallah
3. Mid of tour guide speaking to tour participants UPSOUND (English) tour organiser: We didn't enter Ramallah yet; we still need about three metre, three hundred metres.
4. Close of tour participants on bus
Ramallah, West Bank
5. Tracking of bus driving down city street
6. Exterior of Mahmoud Darwish Museum
7. Mid of tour participants exiting bus
8. Wide of tour participants climbing up stairs to Mahmoud Darwish Museum
9. Wide of Mahmoud Darwish tomb
10. Mid of tour participants at Mahmoud Darwish Museum
11. Wide of tour participants, including organiser Gershon Baskin (in purple shirt), outside Mahmoud Darwish Museum
Rawabi, West Bank
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gershon Baskin, tour organiser:
Israelis and Palestinians live in this land and don't get to meet, they don't get to talk to each other. There are walls and fences that divide them in a physical manner. There are psychological barriers that separate them with a psychology of fear that exists between the two sides. The only way that we're gonna break forth through any progress and making peace between the people who live here is to break down the walls and get the people to see each other, to talk to each other, to reach out, to understand the reality that each side is living in. We organise these tours in order to bring Israelis into Palestine, to Ramallah and the areas around the Ramallah so they can see the daily life and the challenges that Palestinians face.
Ramallah, West Bank
13. Wide of tour bus parked outside Samer's Restaurant
14. Mid of tour participants having lunch at Samer's Restaurant
15. Close of food on table - on the left-hand corner of the picture is Palestinian bread (round, on brown basket) as well as matza (in a plastic container), unleavened bread of the Jewish tradition
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Gavin Gross, tour participant:
The reason I come on these trips is I'm very curious as an Israeli - what's happening 15-20 minutes away from me? Palestinian cities that we normally can't get to visit. Because this is an official tour, an organised tour, I had a chance to visit and I grabbed it because I want to see with my own eyes and listen with my own ears.
17. Various of tour participants at mausoleum of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat
Rawabi, West Bank
18. Wide of Rawabi city under construction
19. Wide of tour participants entering Rawabi showroom
20. Wide of tour participants visiting Rawabi showroom
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Ronit Ramati, tour participant:
I'm very impressed from Rawabi. It looks like a modern city and very well planned. It looks like people who will come to live here want to live and not to fight with each other.
22. Close of model of Rawabi at showroom
23. Wide of Rawabi buildings under construction seen from statue
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Ramallah, a bustling centre of Palestinian life is just a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem, but for Israelis it might as well be
on the other side of the world.
Since a major round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting more than a decade ago, Israelis have been kept out of Palestinian cities by the Israeli military and their own fears.
But after several years of relative calm, a few have begun trickling back in tours led by Palestinian guides and guarded by
plainclothes Palestinian security agents.
On Wednesday, about two dozen visitors, Israelis and a few foreigners, visited the city, as part of an ongoing peace initiative by activists that promotes co-existence.
separation that deepened the divide between the two peoples.
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3 days of mourning for poet who helped forge Palestinian national identity
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Ramallah, West Bank - 10 August 2008
1. Wide of presidential compound
2. Various of Palestinian flags at half mast
Ramallah, West Bank - 9 August 2008
3. Set up shot of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas at his office
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas:
The passing of our great poet, Mahmoud Darwish, a lover of Palestine, a pioneer of the modern Palestinian culture, and a brilliant national leader, will leave a great gap in our political, cultural and national lives.
Ramallah, West Bank - 10 August 2008
5. Wide of street
6. Man looking at newspapers
7. Tilt up of newspapers
8. Close-up on picture of Darwish
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Darwish, resident of Ramallah, no relation to poet:
His voice - it's all over the world, his voice describes (to) the Palestinian people that there is something called Palestinian people living in this land.
10. People in street
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Majed Dajani, Jericho resident:
We lost of a great poet, a great leader, a thoughtful man, filled with love and true feeling to Palestine.
12. Wide of square
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 10 August 2008
13. Various of men hanging obituaries
14. Mourning tent ready for mourners to arrive
15. Set up shot of Iz-el-din Al Masri, Hamas cultural ministry official
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iz-el-din Al Masri, Hamas Culture Ministry official:
For us, Mahmoud Darwish is considered as a great and important Palestinian poet, whom we cannot ignore and we can only bow in respect for, at this moment we stand in sorrow. It is a difficult moment for the Palestinian people to lose him when they are in need for voices to articulate their needs.
17. End shot of Al Masri
Tel Aviv, Israel - 10 August 2008
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Uri Avneri, Israeli left wing activist and friend of Darwish:
Mahmoud Darwish was the conscience of the Palestinian people, a poet of anger, a poet of hope and a poet of peace.
19. End shot of Avneri
PALESTINIAN POET MOURNED
Flags were lowered at West Bank government buildings on Sunday, ushering in three days of official mourning for poet Mahmoud Darwish, who helped forge the Palestinians' national identity and gave a voice to their yearning for independence.
Darwish died on Saturday, at age 67, following heart surgery at a Houston hospital.
The passing of our great poet, Mahmoud Darwish, a lover of Palestine, a pioneer of the modern Palestinian culture, and a brilliant national leader, will leave a great gap in our political, cultural and national lives, said Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
Some of the themes of his poetry - the experience of exile and his concern over Palestinian infighting - were also reflected in his death.
It remained unclear whether Darwish, a cultural icon, would be buried near his home village in what is now Israel, as requested by some of his relatives, or in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Burial in Israel would require special Israeli approval, and an Israeli Arab lawmaker, Wasel Taha, said he and other Israeli Arab leaders were approaching the Israeli authorities.
However, Palestinian Authority official Yasser Abed Rabbo said he expected Darwish, who was a close friend, to be buried in Ramallah, the Palestinians' cultural centre and seat of the West Bank government.
Abed Rabbo said the body would arrive from the U.S. on Tuesday.
Underscoring Palestinian divisions, it was not clear on Sunday whether the Hamas government in Gaza would join the three days of official mourning declared by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Islamic group Hamas wrested control of Gaza from forces loyal to Abbas in June 2007, leaving him with control of only the West Bank, and the two sides remain locked in a bitter dispute.
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The Arab-Hebrew Theater of Jaffa
Residing in the historical museum of old Jaffa, an important Mediterranean port from the second millennium B.C., the Arab-Hebrew Theater is a home for the joint creation of two theater companies: The Arab Theater Al-Saraya, and Local Theater. The two theater companies produce plays, both together and separately, in Hebrew and in Arabic, with the participation of Jewish and Arab actors.
Poem 4 Palestine (in Bangla) : হায়রে মানবাধিকার !
Poem 4 Palestine ( in Bangla) : Oh, Human Rights !
Poet, Reciter and Composer : Zakir Hossain (Bangladesh)
N.B. : This poem in Bangla version is fully dedicated to our Palestine friends. Any one can share it, tag it and save it as copy. Even can promote to other media without any notice. Kind Regards.
eupribeag.com (PS) Palestine's capital Ramallah - Yasser Arafat mausoleum
Yasser Arafat established his West Bank headquarters in Ramallah. Although considered an interim solution, Ramallah became the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, now officially known as the State of Palestine.
Palestinian Poet Farid Bitar
Farid Bitar performs his poetry for New Jersey activists supporting the Gaza Freedom March.
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Israelis take rare tour of Palestinian stronghold of Ramallah
Ramallah, a bustling centre of Palestinian life is just a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem, but for Israelis it might as well be
on the other side of the world.
Since a major round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting more than a decade ago, Israelis have been kept out of Palestinian cities by the Israeli military and their own fears.
But after several years of relative calm, a few have begun trickling back in tours led by Palestinian guides and guarded by
plainclothes Palestinian security agents.
On Wednesday, about two dozen visitors, Israelis and a few foreigners, visited the city, as part of an ongoing peace initiative by activists that promotes co-existence.
The trip was organised by Israel/Palestine Centre for Research and Information (IPCRI), an Israeli-Palestinian group promoting co-existence that has organised several similar events in the West Bank since 2013.
The participants had to apply for special army permits to enter Ramallah and sign a waiver absolving the army of responsibility for them.
The tour also came as another US attempt to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal appeared doomed.
Gershon Baskin, an organiser, said such trips are needed, nonetheless, to foster understanding after years of enforced
separation that deepened the divide between the two peoples.
The only way that we're going to break forth through any progress and making peace between the people who live here is to break down the walls and get the people to see each other, to talk to each other, to reach out, to understand the reality that each side is living in, he said.
The tour fell in the week of the Jewish holiday of Passover, and those observing religious tradition pulled out containers with matza, or unleavened bread, to eat alongside plates of hummus and olives, as Arabic music played in the background.
The tour group visited the museum dedicated to Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish, the mausoleum of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, followed by lunch at Samer's Restaurant where US Secretary of State John Kerry ate on one of dozens of mediation trips in recent months.
For their final stop the group visited Rawabi, a Palestinian city under construction nearby.
While some Palestinians, especially shopkeepers, would welcome large numbers of Israeli visitors to their towns, others dismiss the possibility of normalising relations while the Israeli military occupation continues.
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S3: Ramallah | E1: Taste of Ramallah
We all know the best place to grab a quick bite of falafel is at Mesa Reem, but did you know that there is also sushi in Ramallah? Feast your eye son the two tastiest food joints you must try while visiting Ramallah, Palestine.
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PA TV teaches kids to “follow the example” of arch-terrorist Abu Jihad who is a symbol
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Yasser Arafat - Gaza
Rim Banna - Nazareth
Mahmoud Darwish - Al-Birweh
Ghassan Kanafani - Acre
Mahmoud Abbas - Safed
Abu Jihad - Ramle
“From My Country”
Official PA TV host: Hello my dear friends and welcome to the program 'From My Country.' You certainly know how beautiful our country is: its villages, cities, historical, religious, archaeological, and tourist sites. The most beautiful thing is that all of this beauty of our country is reflected by great personalities who have given and are giving much to the homeland, whether in the political, literary, artistic, or scientific struggle... The prominent personalities struggled by way of pens, paintbrushes, words, weapons, and knowledge… To express our appreciation and follow the example of these symbols, let us always keep them in our memories.
[Official PA TV, From My Country, Jan. 20, 2018]
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960’s - 1980’s. These attacks, which murdered a total of 125 Israelis, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Ghassan Kanafani – a writer and a leader of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Rim Banna – Palestinian composer and singer from Nazareth, known for reviving old traditional Palestinian children’s songs.
Mahmoud Darwish is considered the Palestinian national poet. He published over 30 volumes of poetry and 8 books of prose and has won numerous awards. He joined the Israeli Communist Party in 1961 and the terrorist organization PLO in 1973, becoming a member of the PLO Executive Committee in 1987. He left the PLO in 1993 because it signed the Oslo Accords with Israel. Many in Israel see his poetry as inciting hate and violence. One poem he wrote in 1988 at the height of the Palestinian wave of violence and terror against Israel (the first Intifada, 1987-1993) calls to Israelis: “Take your portion of our blood - and be gone… Live wherever you like, but do not live among us… Die wherever you like, but do not die among us… Leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds, everything, and leave the memories of memory.” In 1964, he wrote a poem entitled ID Card in which he said: I do not hate people, And I do not steal from anyone, But if I starve I will eat my oppressors' flesh; Beware, beware of my starving, And my rage.
He also wrote “Silence for the Sake of Gaza” in 1973, which many see as glorifying terror: “She wraps explosives around her waist and blows herself up. It is not a death, and not a suicide. It is Gaza's way of declaring she is worthy of life.”
His defenders have claimed that Israel misinterprets his poetry and that he sought reconciliation with Israel.
Abbas: I will never recognize Israel as a Jewish State
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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: I recognize the State of Israel, and that is it. However, a Jewish state is not my affair. I will not recognize it at all and I will not accept it... Why is it asking us to recognize it as a Jewish state? ... I will not accept and it is impossible that I will accept Let [Israel] continue to talk about a Jewish state and we will soundly reject it.
[Official PA TV, July 27, 2016]
Culture and Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
This Culture and Development UN Millennium Development Goals programme aims to foster institutional and socio-economic development by establishing and implementing policies and practices that safeguard cultural heritage. It also aims to identify and maximise the potential of cultural tourism and creative industries for inclusive economic growth and social cohesion. This video was produced in the framework of the UNESCO MDG-F knowledge management project for culture and development.
Voice of Palestine (May 10th, 2013)
This week we present a cultural and spoken word tribute to mark the 65th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, produced by our sister show PoetsWest based in Seattle. The show includes a short radio play and readings of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry by Ed Mast, original poetry by Hanna Eady and music by Reem Kelani. We dedicate the show to the Palestinian nation, especially the majority in diaspora, as they remember the original ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1947/48 and the destruction of over 400 Palestinian towns and villages by Zionist forces.
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Natives to The Land ,A Common Destiny, Photos from the Farhat Art Museum
Photographs from the Farhat Art Museum Collection , Native americans and Palestinian orientalist photographs , poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, Feiruz Song
صور استشراق من فلسطين مرافقة بصور الهنود الحمر وشعر محمود درويش , وأغنية فيروز
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Season 4: Bethlehem Trailer
Olive Harvest Season is finally here and just in time to introduce Bethlehem, the town of olive farms. Bethlehem is a small town south of Jerusalem, home to both Christan & Muslim Palestinians who live in unity. The Church of Nativity, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, it’s a major Christian pilgrimage destination. Explore the historical and religious discoveries of the most visited town in the West Bank.
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