By Shabtai Gold, Dec 24, 2006 Bethlehem, Dec 24 – Residents of Bethlehem are once again bracing for a bitter, disappointing Christmas. The West Bank city, which used to host around 100,000 pilgrims celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, expects to receive a fraction of that number this year. ‘There is hardly a Christmas feelingContinue reading “Christmas, but not much cheer in Bethlehem”
Category Archives: Nonviolent Resistance
KC Sabeel Conference – October 20th, 2006
Presentation by Mubarak Awad on “Creative Nonviolence”
Voices of Struggle: A Voice More Powerful
The following are some comments from the Middle East Seminar on Nonviolence – Held in Amman, Jordan. November 1st 2006 Mansour: I’m involved because everyone needs a home, needs to have their needs met, and because I don’t want these things (violence) to happen to me. In nonviolence struggles you’re not weak, you’re not aContinue reading “Voices of Struggle: A Voice More Powerful”
Can a Nonviolent Movement in the Arab World be Established?
For three days now we have been meeting in Jordan in a conference that has been organized by NOVA (Active Nonviolence) in close relation with MAN (Movement for Nonviolent Alternative, The Gandhi Center in Italy, Un Ponte Per from Italy and Pax Christi Netherlands. The meetings have been under the title “A Seminar for trainersContinue reading “Can a Nonviolent Movement in the Arab World be Established?”
A funny example of never giving up…
This picutre was sent to me by Milana Gorenstein from the Holistic Cancer Information Center.
The Palestinian Village: The Final Frontier
By Sami Awad The construction by the Israeli government and military of the isolation wall on Palestinian land is being implemented with full force. While Israel has claimed and has tried to argue that the security threat posed by Palestinians is the reason for this construction, many — Palestinians, Israeli, international peace proponents, and evenContinue reading “The Palestinian Village: The Final Frontier”
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
The following is a link to an interview conducted by Vicky Rossi from the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. INTERVIEW.
The Awad Family
by Lorin Peters When Sami realized, that night, that I had no family to eat with, he immediately said, “Come to dinner with us.” He didn’t tell me it would be a beautiful buffet at his father Bishara and mother Selwa’s home, or that his uncle Alex and his family, and two American pastors wouldContinue reading “The Awad Family”
Is it the ‘worst of times’?
Once more as Palestinians we see ourselves making statements such as, “we are now living in the worst situation we have ever been in and it can’t get worse than this.” I have been hearing such statements for several years now. We all know what we will hear six months from now: “we are NOWContinue reading “Is it the ‘worst of times’?”
King in the Holy Land
(Bethlehem) Najib Farag Friday, 15 September 2006 Martin Luther King Junior’s son is as dedicated to peace and justice as his father. The younger King walked the streets of Bethlehem this week in the company of Holy Land Trust Director, Sami Awad. King visited the Church of Nativity and took meetings with local officials,Continue reading “King in the Holy Land”
Sami Awad 