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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hayaat of Bethlehem faces check points, curfews, and the travel permit system designed to keep people on the West Bank when she attempts to go to her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem with her best friend.
4) Here I am
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am." Later, when Isaac calls out, "My father!" to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, "Here I am." How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others'?...
5) Promises
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Follows the journey of a filmmaker who travels in and around Jerusalem, from a Palestinian refugee camp to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children who exist in separate worlds, divided by physical, historical, and emotional boundaries although they live only 20 minutes apart. Explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of these children and tells the story of a few children who dared...
8) Budrus
Publisher
Typecast Releasing
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
Arabic
Description
They not only save the village, but the Barrier is pushed back behind the Green Line into No Man's Land. In the process, Ayed and Iltezam unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary featuring archival footage of this movement from its infancy, Budrus will inspire and challenge audiences worldwide.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One of Ahed's earliest memories is visiting her father in prison, poking her three-year-old fingers through the fence to touch his hand. The ubiquitous security checkpoints and armed guards even found their way into her childhood fairytales and playdates. Her grandmother regaled her not...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on his wealth of contacts as a journalist, as well as everyday Palestinians and Jews, a former speechwriter for Israeli Prime MInisters Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert attempts to find out why the Middle East problem refuses to be resolved and why so many people outside the Middle East think they have the answer.
12) Encounter point
Publisher
Typecast Releasing
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Arabic
Description
Created by a Palestinian, Israeli, North and South American team, this film tells the story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their safety and public standing to press for an end to the conflict. They are at the vanguard of a movement to push Palestinian and Israeli societies to a tipping point, forging a new consensus for nonviolence and peace. Perhaps years...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
Français
Description
A provocative tale, filmed in Israel and the West Bank, of two young men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions on themselves and their respective families.
14) Dancing in Jaffa
Pub. Date
2014
Language
עברית
Description
"Pierre Dulaine, four-time ballroom dancing world champion, is fulfilling a life-long dream when he takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa. For generations, Jaffa has been a city divided by two communities that continue to grow increasingly apart. Over a ten-week period, Pierre teaches Jewish and Palestinian Israeli children to dance and compete together. The film explores the complex stories of three children, all...
15) Tears of Gaza
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Taars of Gaza is less a conventional documentary film than a record of the 2008-2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military. This powerful film focuses on the impact of the attacks on the civilian population, demanding that we examine the costs of war.
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