Articles, Lectures, Diwans and other content related to Palestine
Online Event in English without translation. Questions and contributions to the discussion following the lecture can also be asked in Arabic, we will translate to the best of our ability. Admission free, please register here: registration (link) In 2015, a demonstration erupted in Burj al-Barajne, Beirut’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, after a resident was killed […]
Continue ReadingA guide through the narrowing corridors of freedom of expression Event in German without translation. Questions and contributions to the discussion following the lecture can also be asked in Arabic and English, we will translate to the best of our ability. The accelerated, ubiquitous and relentless assault on all our senses through news, online media […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to the next event of the online version of our ongoing [zait wa: zaʕtar] Festival of Palestinian Arts and Culture! For the next upcoming lockdown weekend, we prepared a the screening of Kamal Aljafari’s film ‘Recollection’ for you, together with the artist talking with the festival’s film curator Nahed Awwad.
Continue ReadingThe Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.#zaitwazaatarberlin#SpeedSisters
Continue ReadingWelcome to the next event of the online version of our ongoing [zait wa: zaʕtar] Festival of Palestinian Arts and Culture! For the next upcoming lockdown weekend, we prepared a the screening of Kamal Aljafari’s film ‘Recollection’ for you, together with the artist talking with the festival’s film curator Nahed Awwad.
Continue ReadingOver the course of the film, Manna follows in Dr. Robert Lachmann’s footsteps and visits Kurdish, Moroccan and Yemenite Jews, Samaritans, members of urban and rural Palestinian communities, Bedouins and Coptic Christians, as they exist today within the geographic space of historical Palestine.
Continue ReadingDear friends of the Ibn Rushd Fund, We wish you a new year as happy as possible in the current circumstances. But the light of spring is in sight, and so we are carrying on, and invite you to try with us to find positive aspects resulting from things as usual being impossible. One thing […]
Continue ReadingMissing Archive, missing narrative? Where is the archive of Palestine, and who owns it? How did the missing archive create a void in the Palestinian narrative and what did the Palestinians do to compensate this? In her films, Mahasen Nasser Eldin […]
Continue ReadingFollowing our discussion of “Silences & Words” in Palestinian literature (you can find the recording of the event here), we are glad to announce this discussion with award-winning novelist Susan Abulhawa on her latest book “Against the Loveless World” on November 22nd 2020, 6 PM. Published first in 2019 in German (dt. “Nahrs Letzter Tanz”), […]
Continue ReadingSovereignty, the Subject and Life under Siege & what led him to initiate the Great Return March Dear friends of Freedom of Thought, in the Arab World and elsewhere, “How does it feel having to live in Gaza, a place that offers no future prospects?”, was the question we asked earlier this year. We tried […]
Continue ReadingThe hashtag ‘#My Palestinian Sitty’, a phrase coined by the democratic US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, is trending on social media: My Palestinian Grandma. Lots of Palestinian users both in Palestine and in the diaspora keep uploading pictures of and comments on their grandmothers onto Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and you might wonder, what’s so special […]
Continue ReadingDear friends of freedom of thought, in the Arab World and elsewhere, Roots are at the base of everyone’s identity, and the need to know one’s roots plays a central part in the construction of an identity. What is the truth about where I come from, who are my ancestors and where did they live, […]
Continue ReadingDear friends of freedom of thought, the next Ibn Rushd Lecture is a special one, complemented by recital and music, and rounded off with a small reception, all in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet of Palestine beloved by all Arabs. Maybe the Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab […]
Continue Readingwith Dr. Hanan Ashrawi Palestine is a name for a region that has undergone dramatic change. Once sounding like a divine promise, it now seems to be a synonym for hopelessness. How did the situation in the region deteriorate to the dead-end it is at now, and is there a horizon – can a just […]
Continue ReadingIbn Rushd on tour with Al Qafila 2018 – the cultural caravan on the Journey of Life along the ‘Balkan Route’.
The Qafila al-Hayat sends artists and musicians from seven Arab countries on a Journey of Life to travel as a caravan in the footsteps of the men and women who fled war and destruction in their home countries in the Middle East along what became known as the Balkan Route.
And while they are experiencing their compatriots journey, these young people are on a mission: to show local audiences the rich culture that is a treasure brought by the people traveling towards a future on this most fateful journey of their lives.
Young journalists was a press competition project for pupils of from each one boys and one girls school in Tulkarem – Palestine A joint work between the Palestinian Ministry of Education and the Ibn Rushd Foundation for Free Thought.
This is to activate the student’s relationship with problems in their environment and to discuss them completely freely. The competition took place for a period of three months, during which students participating had to go to libraries and the Internet in search for sources of news.
