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Post by pieter on May 16, 2021 16:11:06 GMT -7
My Beit Daras, My Nakba: Two Palestinian Intellectuals Reminiscing about Their Destroyed Village•Streamed live on 14 May 2020Ramzy BaroudDr. Ghada Ageel and Dr. Ramzy Baroud have more in common than their scholarly research on Palestinian history and politics. They are both refugees, and the direct descendants of Palestinian refugees who have been expelled at gunpoint from their historic village of Beit Daras during the catastrophic events that led to the Palestinian Nakba of May 15, 1948.
Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village, called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias’ attacks. With little means - a few old rifles and kitchen knives - the Badrasawis fought back, repelling the first raid and the second. The final attack on the peaceful village followed a scorched-earth military strategy, leaving in its wake scores of dead and wounded, and the entirety of the village on the run. Among the thousands of ethnically-cleansed Palestinians in Beit Daras, two families, Aqeel and Baroud salvaged a few belongings and went searching for a safe place, with the hope that they would return home in a few days. Hundreds of their descendants are yet to return to Beit Daras, 72 years later.
Dr. Ghada Ageel is a visiting professor at the University of Alberta Political Science Department (Edmonton, Canada) and active in the Faculty4Palestine-Alberta. Her latest book is Apartheid in Palestine: Hard Laws and Harder experiences.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is “These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons”. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), Istanbul Zaim University.
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Post by pieter on May 16, 2021 16:40:09 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 3:14:18 GMT -7
Folks,
I want to stress that during the decades I have had experience with Christians, Mulims, Jews, Hindu's, Buddhists, Bahai people, Agnostic, Atheist (secular humanist) people and others in the Netherlands. The Netherlans is a country where people with 150 or more nationalities (people of various ehtnic, racial, cultural and religious background coexist). There are more Muslims than Jews in the Netherlands and therefor I have more experience with people with a Turkish, Kurd (Turkish Kurd, Iraqi Kurd, Syrian Kurd and Iranian Kurd), Moroccan (both Berber and Arabised Berber and Arabic North African Maghrebian backgrounds), Algerian, Tunesian, Egyptian, Iraqi Arab, Syrian Druze, Lebanese Maronite Christian, Lebanese Armenian, Egyptian Copt, Syrian Sunni Arab, Afghan, Bosnian Muslim and Iranian background than native Dutch Jews and Israeli's.
I have encounters and conversations with Muslims on a weekly basis due to my work and private life. I studied with an Egyptian fellow student (Mohammmed) at the Arnhem art academy (Fine Art) and learned a lot from him about Egypt, the Middle East, Islam, Muslims and Ancient Egypt. After that I worked for years as a Desk Top Publisher with a Iranian colleague in the hospital (2001-2006) and via him I got to know the pluriform Iranian (Persian Iranian Farsi speaking) community in Arnhem. On the Arnhem Art Academy and in the Arnhem Art scene I knew also Iranian art students (Former members of the Iranian intelligentsia in Iran, intellectuals who studied various studies on Iranian Universities in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz), and later Kurd and Turkish and Afghan colleagues at my broadcast corporation.
Since I was interested in the Middle East, the Levant and North Africa, due to the presence of Middle Eastern and North-African people in Zeeland during my childhood and Amsterdam, The Hague and Arnhem, while I was and am there, I followed both Israeli and Arab news during the eighties, nineties and in the 21th century. I was interested in the Lebanese Civil War (13 April 1975 – 13 October 1990), the Iran–Iraq War (22 September 1980 – 20 August 1988), Israel, the Palestinians (and the various Palestinian fractions, movements, parties and individuals), and therefor read books of both Israeli (Amos Oz, Avraham Burg, Avishai Margalit and Shimon Peres) and novels of the Palestinian authors Dawoud El-Alami and Edward Said and many eassys, articles, columns and letters of Palestinian intellectuals, journalists, writers and professors. Israeli people like Uri Avnery, Shulamit Aloni, Gideon Levy, Ilan Pappé and Amira Hass had or have empathy, sympathy and respect for the Palestinians and spoke in favor of Palestinian rights in the Israeli media (Haaretz) or for the international media and often were and are called traitors and were and are hated and attacked by Far right Israeli's.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 3:19:59 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 3:24:30 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 3:28:05 GMT -7
Ilan Pappé (Hebrew: אילן פפה, IPA: [iˈlan paˈpe]; born 1954) is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.
Pappé was born in Haifa, Israel. Prior to coming to the UK, he was a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa (1984–2007) and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa (2000–2008). He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (2003), and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988). He was also a leading member of Hadash, and was a candidate on the party list in the 1996 and 1999 Knesset elections.
Pappé is one of Israel's New Historians who, since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, have been rewriting the history of Israel's creation in 1948, and the corresponding expulsion or flight of 700,000 Palestinians in the same year. He has written that the expulsions were not decided on an ad hoc basis, as other historians have argued, but constituted the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, in accordance with Plan Dalet, drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. He blames the creation of Israel for the lack of peace in the Middle East, arguing that Zionism is more dangerous than Islamic militancy, and has called for an international boycott of Israeli academics.
Pappé supports the one-state solution, which envisages a binational state for Palestinians and Israelis.
His work has been both supported and criticized by other historians. Before he left Israel in 2008, he had been condemned in the Knesset, Israel's parliament; a minister of education had called for him to be sacked; his photograph had appeared in a newspaper at the centre of a target; and he had received several death threats.
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 3:30:07 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 3:45:59 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 3:48:48 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 6:40:52 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 8:29:56 GMT -7
Dear friends,
What we hear to less in the Western media is the voice of the Palestinian street, the Palestinian intelligentsia, Palestinian journalists, Palestinian students of the Al-Aqsa University, the Al-Azhar University, Al-Quds Open University, the Gaza University, the Islamic University of Gaza, the Israa University, the Palestine Technical College, the University College of Applied Sciences, the University of Palestine, and the Gaza Community/Training Center in Gaza and the An-Najah National University, Arab American University, Bethlehem Bible College, the Bethlehem University, the Birzeit University, Dar Al-Kalima University College of Arts & Culture, the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, the Hebron University, Ibrahimieh College, the Khodori Institute, the Tulkarm Palestine Ahliya University, the Palestine Polytechnic University, the Al-Quds University, the International Academy of Art, Palestine, and the Al-Quds Open University on the Westbank.
We hear or see or listen to less to Palestinian voices, Palestinian intellectuals, Palestinian Peace Activists, Palestinian dissidents in Gaza and the Westbank, Palestinian opinion makers (bloggers), Palestinian journalists, writers, poets, comedians, artists, highschool pupils, Palestinian workers, famers and Palestinian civil servants, Palestinian doctors, surgeons, lawjers, judges, autorney's, businesspeople and musicians.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 8:33:04 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 8:34:02 GMT -7
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Post by karl on May 17, 2021 11:38:49 GMT -7
Pieter
It was both interesting and enlightened to watch and hear the experience of this young palestine lady student whilst though educated in the USA, to then attend The Birzeit University with her wish to learn Arabic in { I want to speak Arabic}. For this a plus for her Arabic back ground and family. For as with the young lady as with most of us, is the internal neccesity to learn and understand our individual back ground, where our roots lay and who we are as a person.
Life at the Birzeit University:
Karl
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Post by pieter on May 17, 2021 12:05:22 GMT -7
Birzeit University (BZU; Arabic: جامعة بيرزيت) is a public non-profit organization, registered by the Ministry of Social Affairs as charitable organization and accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education as a public university located in Birzeit, West Bank, near Ramallah. Established in 1924 as an Elementary School for girls, Birzeit became a University in 1975.
Birzeit University offers graduate and undergraduate programs in information technology, engineering, sciences, social policy, arts, law, nursing, pharmacy, health sciences, economics, and management. It has 9 faculties, including a graduate faculty. These offer 47 B.A. programs for undergraduate students and 26 M.A. programs for graduate students. As of 2018, around 14,000 students are enrolled in the university's bachelor's, master's and PhD programs.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birzeit_Universitywww.birzeit.edu
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