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Rana Shubair: Yes, I Can Dare to Dream in My Gaza

Friday, January 14, 2011 at 8:40AM Author

http://www.paltelegraph.com

Although I'm not a fervent advocate of using technology in every aspect of our lives, I have chosen to open my laptop and type this piece instead of writing it in my notebook first, just for a change, and may be to please my ears with the clicking sound of my fingers striking the keyboard. I guess this shows that I'm in continuous pursuit for change even in the tiny aspects of life. Change; something referred to as being healthy nowadays is, by all means, a vital part of life for all those living in the tremendously stressful life of the 21st Century.

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Palestinian Memorial Week for Palestine to begin in London

Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 12:11PM Author

Gilad Atzmon

The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) is putting the final touches on its 2nd memorial week and International conference. PRC's Palestinian Memorial Week will commence on Saturday 15th Jan till 22nd of Jan 2011. Workshops, Galleries, Film screening, discussions and awareness sessions will take place.

Muhannad Othman Alazzeh

Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 9:16AM Author

Gilad Atzmon

Muhannad is a Palestinian artist who resides in Alazzeh refugee camp in occupied Palestine. However, he originates from the southern Palestinian village of Biet Jibrin, which has been ethnically cleansed by the Israeli Zionist troops in 1948. "Don't beautify the Apartheid wall", a quote by Alazzeh for an interview on the role of Palestinian and international artists and his views on the segregation wall built around the West Bank. Al Azzeh was born in September of 1981 to Othman Alazzeh, an Arabic literature teacher and Amal Alazzeh.

Since he's shown an interest in Art and painting at the age of 10, his parents got him to participate in 'Alwan' (meaning colours in Arabic) workshop in Jerusalem, where he learnt and developed his talent at a young age and then published some of his work at the workshop's magazine.

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In year 2003 Muhannad started his studies at Abu Dis University in occupied Palestine doing a BA in fine Art. However, before completing his first year, Alazzeh was arrested from his home by Israeli Occupation Forces for allegations of in-campus 'student activism'. Although this period of his life remains a tough one, yet the experience has not put him down but enriched his artistic talent and made him more determent to express and utilise his ability for the benefit of the people of Palestine.

His most recent participation in an exhibition entitled "Not Politics" was about his 3-year time in Israeli jails. The work, which he referred to as "April the 15th" (the day he was arrested) included some abstract paintings representing life outside the jail as seen from the inside. "A cell's window was the only hope left, through its bars you could glimpse the ray?