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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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Video Gaza Libraries: Children in Crisis
Monday 10 February 2014
Video Gaza Libraries: Children in Crisis
This video was prepared in 2009 by some youth who volunteered to prepare it.
Reading Culture- Palestinian Children in Lebanon 2
Monday 10 February 2014
PBBY is keen to support the culture of reading among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, when possible. Reading for joy is very vital with the very difficult situation our children endure and the deterioration of the education system standards.
A symbolic fund was donated to the National (...)
Reading among Palestinian Children in Lebanon
Monday 10 February 2014
Encouraging the Culture of Reading among Palestinian
Refugee Children in Lebanon
Implemented by PBBY in cooperation with
Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts
Supported by IBBY- Yamada Fund 2010
A detailed report by the Consultant/Trainer in response
.
First let me tell you that this (...)
Biennial Reports
Monday 10 February 2014
Every two year IBBY requests from all national sections to prepare their biennial reports according to a standard format All reports are combined in one report which is distributed in the biennial IBBY Congress, and is posted with each national section report on www.ibby.org
Below is the (...)
Meeting with Ulf Stark
Monday 10 February 2014
The Swedish writer ULf Stark was invited by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture.
PBBY organized a joint meeting with the Ministry and al Qattan Foundation in which Ulf Stark gave a very interesting talk about his books mainly the book “Can You Whistle, (...)
Elsa Marston
Monday 10 February 2014
Marston in Palestine!
In 2009 Elsa Marston visited Palestine for olive picking and to visit PBBY and implement some activities with them. It turned to be a very rich visit.
PBBY organized a public lecture where Elsa spoke about the picture of Palestinians in American children literature. (...)
Luciana Savaget
Monday 10 February 2014
Meeting with the Brazilian writer
In autumn 2009 PBBY and Tamer Institute hosted the Brazilian writer Luciana Savaget, it was her second trip to Palestine.
The meeting was to discuss the Book of Luciana “Operation Rescue Baghdad” which is against the war on Iraq. The book was published in (...)
Kanaana on Folk Tales
Monday 10 February 2014
Dr Kanaana on Folk Tales.
PBBY hosted Dr Sharif Kanaana who gave a very interesting talk, which was an over view about folk tales and children’s fairy tales around the world .
He reflected on the Migration of these stories giving concrete examples pointing to the different versions of (...)
Safa Ameer
Monday 10 February 2014
PBBY hosted in 2011 the writer Safa Ameer to discuss her two new books Come Play with Me and Omar & Haha, the former had won the prize of the Palestinian Ministry of Culture for children and was short listed for Itasalt Prize in al Sharjah .. the two books are published by Tamer Institute. (...)
Variety of Meetings
Monday 10 February 2014
Variety of Meetings
There were many interesting meetings with Palestinian writers and experts that were not documented in soft copies.
• Very important meetings were with the Palestinian writers in which they talked about their life in writing and how they grow up to become writers. This was (...)
Honour List Celebration
Monday 10 February 2014
October 17, 2012
PBBY and Tamer Institute for Community Education organized a celebration in honour of Palestinian writers, illustrators and translators whose works deserved the IBBY Honour-list for the years 2010-2012. This took place during the Palestinian book fair in Ramallah.
Those who (...)
Launchining "When the Golden Fish Stopped Dancing”
Monday 10 February 2014
Palestinian Peace Story in Arabic
PBBY was happy to be part of the Peace Story that came to birth in 2010 as a result of Nami Island initiative and successful cooperation with IBBY International and 22 IBBY National sections. We tried to have this lovely book translated to Arabic but could not (...)
Sonia Nimer
Monday 10 February 2014
On May 17th 2013 PBBY held a meeting was with the writer Sonia Nimr to discuss her new young adult novel “Strange Trips in Alien Countries”
Sonia spoke how she came to write the story and how circumstances had her leave it for years; but now she is preparing to write the second volume.
The (...)
Editing Workshop, 2007
Monday 10 February 2014
Editing Workshop, Ramallah, Palestine, October 2007
The importance of this editing workshop, (was supported by IBBY Yamada Program), is that it is the first in the Arab countries. Thus acknowledging the importance of editing for a better quality of children books.
The editing workshop was led (...)
Meeting: Anne Carter
Monday 10 February 2014
The lPBBY meeting with the Canadian writer to discuss her book The
Shepherd’s Granddaughter.
The writer Sameh Abboushi introduced the writer and led the discussions
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter was published by Groundwood Books.
Part of the royalties went to IBBY-Palestine ‘Children in Crisis’ (...)
