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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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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’ (...)


Highlights: Reading Culture in Occupied Palestine

Monday 10 February 2014
PBBY Workshops: In October 2012 PBBY held two workshops in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to discuss the Palestinian experience in encouraging a reading culture among children. The participants consisted of librarians from public and school libraries, educators, and children’s literature (...)


Meeting with N Espanioli

Monday 10 February 2014
PBBY hosted on May 2nd 2011 a meeting with Nabeela Espanioli Director of Al-Tufula Center in Nazareth. Nabeela spoke about the foundation of the center the mission and the publications and its role in promoting Palestinian national identity. An intersting discussion followed and all attendant (...)


Meeting with M Badarneh

Monday 10 February 2014
IBBY hosts Badarneh the writer & publisher PBBY hosted the writer and publisher Mohammad Badarneh, director of Friends of Arab Children Society which was established in 1986 in Haifa. Badarneh spoke about the mission of the Society and its long rich history. He also spoke about the (...)


Gardens of Hope

Monday 10 February 2014
Gardens of Hope is a collaborative publication between IBBY Palestien and Kalimat publishing in Sharjah. The stories were written by Palestinian children during the Israeli aggression on Gaza 2008-9 the illustrations by children of the UAE. The cover and design was donated by the tunisian (...)


Reading and Creativity

Monday 10 February 2014
Is there a relationship between creativity and reading? By these words, Dr Sharif Kanaana, a well known anthropologist opened the panel organized by PBBY in cooperation with Tamer Institute during ICBD week. The panel hosted three prominent writers who spoke about their childhood experiences: (...)


Meeting with two British writers

Monday 10 February 2014
PBBY Meeting with the writers Anthony Robinson & Annemarie Young Date : 20/05/2013 PBBY hosted in cooperation with Tamer Institute the writers Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young who talked about their experience in writing stories for children in crisis situations. Anthony Robinson and (...)


Astrid Lindgren Centenary

Monday 10 February 2014
In 2007 PBBY organized three very interesting workshops on the occasion of Astrid Lindgren Centenary; each workshop discussed one of her most popular books. translated to Arabic and widely read by the children. the stories were Pippi Longstocking; The Brothers Lionheart; Mio, My Son In (...)


Tribute to Britt Saksson

Monday 10 February 2014
This is a Palestinian tribute to a wonderful friend and member of the Swedish IBBY.


IBBY Ireland Conference

Monday 10 February 2014
In December 2003, the president of IBBY Palestine and the General Director of Tamer Institute Jehan Helou was invited to Ireland to take part in IBBY Ireland conference: Fighting for Writing …Children’s Books in Areas of Conflict. The aim of the conference was to give International and local (...)


Book Fair Nami Island

Monday 10 February 2014
PBBY was invited by Nami Island Team to Nambook-007 International book fair in May of that year. Jehan Helou and Olivia Qandah participated, and they carried Palestinian children which were nicely exhibited at the book exhibition. as seen in the PP. The book fair was accompanied by a seminar (...)

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