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UNESCO’s visit to IBBY Palestine
UNESCO Delegation Visit to the Library of IBBY Palestine in Gaza
Handing Khitam her prize for winning UNESCO’s "World Tales" competition
Giovanni SCEPI Head of the Culture Unit at UNESCO Palestine, and Youssef Al-Ejla, Head of UNESCO Office visited PBBY Shawka give Khitam al-Hissi the (...)
A Land Fueled by People and Stones
This moving piece by writer Dima Sehwail written during the 2008-9 war on Gaza it was published in IBBY 33rd Congress book and of the few items read in one of the plenary sessions
A land fueled by people and stones
Faces of people in my country
Their fingers
Legs
Hands
And tongues will (...)
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Most recent articles
A Moment of Death
Monday 10 February 2014
It was a beautiful day in the life of a middle class family. By sunrise a smile was drawn on the faces of all members of the family after seven days of fear and horror, killings and devastation to which their area was subjected to in Gaza Strip. The Israeli war planes filled densely the Strip’s (...)
A Dialogue in the Morgue
Monday 10 February 2014
This dialogue is between two little Palestinian sisters who died by bombardment in Gaza . (Lama is the younger one).
Lama: It is too cold here, why is the grave too cold and shiny like metal?
Hiba: This is not a grave; this is the morgue, which we used to see on TV.
Lama: Do you think (...)
Stories of children about grandparents & homeland
Monday 10 February 2014
Stories of children about grandparents & homeland
Name: Ghadeer Al Sha’er, 11 Years
My grandfather’s will
My father used to tell us what his father told him to do, he showed him the key of their house in Acre and told him about the land robbed by the Israelis. He asked them to fight hard (...)
Stories from Real Life
Monday 10 February 2014
Stories from Real Life
My Forgotten Story
I will not start with the usual “once upon a time” since what I am going to say has not yet become part of the past and is still on-going.
One day, I went out with my family for an outing on the beach. While walking there I saw a young girl sitting by (...)
The Orphan Bird
Monday 10 February 2014
Rasha Jalal Basyouni- (11 years)
Once upon a time there was a beautiful small bird. He was very sad because his mother died and left him alone.
The bird flew far to visit his grandmother. When he got there, his grandmother hugged him, and he asked her to tell him a story. She told him a (...)
They Killed Everything We Love
Monday 10 February 2014
They Killed Everything We Love
In one of the black nights, and it was a Wednesday, the Israeli occupation invaded Beit Hanoun, and all the tanks with its artillery and huge bulldozers were destroying everything, and we slept scared, and in the black morning the tank fired on our house three (...)
Who Will Care for the Rose Tree
Monday 10 February 2014
Now That He Is Gone, Who Will Care For the Rose Tree
Watching the sunset, here I am trying to put my feelings into words. It is not merely words and expressions that pass by, but rather deeply hearted feelings. Should I say they are the outcome of a combination of love and sadness? Or it is (...)
My Forgotten Story
Monday 10 February 2014
I will not start with the usual “once upon a time” since what I am going to say has not yet become part of the past and is still on-going.
One day, I went out with my family for an outing on the beach. While walking there I saw a young girl sitting by herself so I started walking slowly in her (...)
Timo and Farfur
Monday 10 February 2014
Timo and Farfur by Muna Wasef Azzaneen, 10 years
Once upon a time there was a 9 year old boy named Timo, an only son to his parents. He liked to play and have fun but did not have any friends at school in spite of his excellent achievements. Timo suffered from being sick in his chest and from (...)
Friends of the kitchen
Monday 10 February 2014
Friends of the kitchen
=1= I am the delicious orange. My juice is a health clinic
=2= Ask the cold and the headache and the pain about me, I am the Lemon of Gaza strip.
=3= I am the colorful grapes, the most delicious meal for man, they have me on charitable tables during the Holy Month (...)
Peace in Children’s Drawings
Monday 10 February 2014
children express their views on Peace and emphasize that it should be based on Freedom, Justice and children’s Rights!
Kitchen Buddies
Monday 10 February 2014
Two girls drew vegetables found in Palestinian kitchens, with each saying something about itself.
Drawings: Aggression on Gaza
Monday 10 February 2014
A collection of drawings depicting the Israeli aggression on Gaza.2008-9
Click on picture to enlarge it.
If I were a bird
Monday 10 February 2014
A group of children with hearing impairment drew and animated the book ’ Lau Kunt Ta’ra’ (If I were a bird) after they discussed the story with the librarian in the PRCS in Khan Younis in Gaza.
Lau Kunt Ta’ra written by Fatima Sharafeddine illustated by Amal Karzai and published by Dar Kalimat in (...)
Workshop for Children with Hearing Impairment
Monday 10 February 2014
Workshop for children with hearing impairment illustrations and puppet making
