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Nakba Survivor: new website highlights testimonies of the Nakba

Nora Barrows-Friedman 13 May 2011

A new website was launched today that lets Palestinian refugees who fled (or whose parents and grandparents fled) Israel’s ethnic cleansing project that began in 1948, talk about their experiences in time for the 63rd annual commemoration of the Nakba.  NakbaSurvivor.com, a multi-media initiative of the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), features short, personal testimonials of refugees and their direct descendants.  

WATCH: Long trailer for "The Wanted 18: A True Story of Bovine Resistance"

Nora Barrows-Friedman 12 May 2011

A brilliant new documentary film is being produced in Palestine, focusing on a story that took place during the first intifada in the late 1980s in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem. As Palestinians rebelled against lethal Israeli policies across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli military attempted to quash popular uprisings through unmitigated violence, repression and long-term curfews.