Tagged: gaza

Noura Erakat, in a screenshot from the film

Review: new short film ‘Gaza in Context’

Gaza, the continuing human tragedy, caused by fellow humans. Undoubtedly, we are all aware of the disastrous conditions of life there under the continuing blockade. Surely, you have also witnessed its devastating destruction of war, through the media and through your social media network. Repeated military campaigns by the Israeli army, aimed largely at its civilian population consisting mostly of...

Asmaa Seba

Gaza Seen By Its Children: Asmaa Seba’s amazing photography project

Imagine a traumatized child, whose spirit has been damaged by the horrors of war. Many such children exist in Gaza, especially after the 2008-2009 massive military onslaught upon the people by the Zionist state, which poured out bombs, white phosphorous and depleted uranium over a civilian population. A child that has seen the unimaginable happening right in front of his...

Al Jeel Al Jadeed

Tweep support for ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’

Welcome to the age of social media! And because these are the times we live in, it definitely matters what you do, say, or tweet.   I suddenly found out how you can embed tweets into website posts (silly me that I never researched that before, although I had seen it on other websites). I wanted to embed a whole...

Screenshot from Al Jeel Al Jadeed video

Spanish translation of ‘A Jeel Al Jadeed’ – traducción en español

The Musical Intifada spontaneously received a translation in Spanish of the lyrics of Al Jeel Al Jadeed from Bea Essedin, which is highly appreciated.   This, in fact, opened up a whole new dimension. The old subtitles in the annotations were removed, and now the CC on the Youtube video contains subtitles in three languages: English, Spanish, and Dutch.