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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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IBBY solidarity with our children in Gaza Palestine
Monday 15 February 2021
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Great solidarity of IBBY with our children in Gaza Palestine, listen to IBBY President’s speech and the Executive Secretary :
Bolona book-fair is the largest children book fair in the world
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Palestinian Children’s Literature
Monday 15 February 2021
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February 12, 2021
N.A. Mansour on Sonia Nimr
Sonia Nimr, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands. Trans. Marcia Lynx Qualey. Interlink Books, 2020. $15.00 (paperback)
We do not allow our characters rest. They are called upon to entertain us by darting to and fro, falling in love, living out our (...)
IBBY Support for the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Non-Discrimination
Monday 15 February 2021
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Since its founding in 1953, the International Board on Books for Young People has promoted understanding and acceptance of others in all countries of the world. One of its main missions is to promote international understanding through children’s books and this is successfully done with strict (...)
IBBY Children in Crisis Fund
Monday 15 February 2021
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The IBBY Children in Crisis Fund provides support for children whose lives have been disrupted through war, civil disorder or natural disaster. The two main activities that are supported by the Fund are the therapeutic use of books and storytelling in the form of bibliotherapy, and the creation (...)
Video: Children with Hearing Impairment
Monday 15 February 2021
An video on the work of PBBY with children with hearing disparities in cooperation with PRCS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJPCJwWbFM&feature=youtu.be
IBBY Gaza Appeal 2014
Monday 15 February 2021
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IBBY Children in Crisis Illustration
2014 Appeal to rebuild the IBBY Libraries in Gaza
2014 has been a year notable for violence, conflict and destructionAutomatic word wrap
IBBY has been supporting two children’s libraries in the Gaza Strip since 2008. One library was situated in the northern (...)
PBBY Contacts
Friday 29 January 2021
The PBBY Administrative Committee is formed of the following members: Dr Sharif Kanaana, Prof of Anthropology (Advisor). Jehan Helou, Non-Formal Education and Social Work - President. Mary Fasheh, Senior Librarian - Vice President. Arham Damen, Arabic Teacher & Specialist in Children’s (...)
In 2016 PBBY nominated Sonia to Hans Christian Andersen Award
Thursday 28 January 2021
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/612293/pdf
Ahla Al-Aghani
Thursday 28 January 2021
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/621994/pdf
Sitt El Kol
Thursday 28 January 2021
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Cappuccino
Thursday 28 January 2021
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Forty days of mourning
Thursday 28 January 2021
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/370646/pdf
Librarians and Palestine
Thursday 28 January 2021
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/06/librarians-and-palestine/
BY RON JACOBS
This June, a delegation of librarians, archivists, and other library workers will travel to Palestine. They will connect with colleagues in library- and archive-related projects and institutions there, traveling (...)
’We’re trapped ... books free our minds’
Wednesday 27 January 2021
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/11/israel
In the third week of our appeal, Conal Urquhart reports on the Palestinian institute making sure children don’t grow up illiterate
Nadeen cradles her folder. She carefully lays it on the table and takes out four books, a notebook, a pencil (...)
The Key
Thursday 21 January 2021
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Issa abu Siniemeh
16 years
Ever since my grandfather built his house which overlooks the soul, he made the door big and put the nails with his own hands, the wood was a variety, one from the olive tree, another from the fig tree, and another from the almond tree, the door from an orange tree, (...)
