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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
"Children of Palestine Tell their Stories"
Monday 10 February 2014
By Jehan Helou
Bookbird contents 1 / 2010
http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1027
Interview: New Member- Palestine
Monday 10 February 2014
Focus IBBY: Highlight: New Member: Palestine
Interview with Jehan Helou in Bookbird Journal
BBC Interview on IBBY, Children in Crisis…1st
Monday 10 February 2014
BBC Interview on IBBY, Children in Crisis…
These are extracts from two hours ‘BBC Extra’ interview, conducted in London November 23rd 2012 with Jehan Helou President of PBBY and Nabeela Hassan PBBY Gaza coordinator, direct from Gaza.
Jehan had to answer other questions related to social, (...)
IBBY Appeal for Syrian Children in Lebanon
Monday 10 February 2014
IBBY Appeal for Syrian Children in Lebanon
Syria 2013
For Arabic version click here
The news that is coming from Syria is shocking, tragic and terribly sad. Refugees are pouring over the borders in their thousands and by the beginning of September there were estimated to be 723,000 refugees (...)
pbby newsletter 2010
Monday 10 February 2014
IBBY- Palestine: Newsletter 2010
• Hosting Palestinian Writers and Experts
PBBY tries to hold at least one meeting per month which normally includes: discussion of various matters relating to children’s literature, a get together with a local or foreign writer, a presentation or (...)
A Birds-Eye View on Activities of Palestine IBBY
Monday 10 February 2014
A Birds-Eye View on Activities of Palestine IBBY
https://www.ibbypalestine.org.uk/IMG/pdf/en_bird_eye_palestine_winter_2010.pdf
Relevant Websites
Monday 10 February 2014
Palestinian Sites
http://www.tamerinst.org
http://www.maan-ctr.org/
https://www.defenceforchildren.org/dci-worldwide/middle-east/palestine.html
http://www.qattanfoundation.org
http://www.altufula.org
http://www.ecrc-jer.org
http://www.alaswar.org
http://www.alhayatlilatfal.net (...)
Ulf Stark
Monday 10 February 2014
The boy, the girl and the wall
http://astridlindgrenmemorialaward.wordpress.com/tag/ulf-stark/
Posts Tagged ‘Ulf Stark’
The boy, the girl and the wall
February 27, 2011
The Swedish writer Ulf Stark (nominated to the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award) travelled to the West Bank last year. In (...)
What Would Anne Frank Have Said?
Monday 10 February 2014
Beverley Naidoo
What Would Anne Frank Have Said?
This article first appeared in the Times Educational Supplement (19.5.2000) and in Writing in Education (Summer 2000)
As the child of a Jewish mother born in South Africa during the Second World War, I grew up with Anne Frank’s diary. Hers was (...)
’Tasting the Sky’: An Interview
Monday 10 February 2014
The Nation
’Tasting the Sky’: An Interview With Ibtisam Barakat
By Molly Bennet
June 4, 2007
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ibtisam Barakat, who lives in Columbia, Missouri, is the author of the memoir Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, recently published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Barakat first (...)
WHO WILL WAKE JUSTICE UP?
Monday 10 February 2014
Beverley Naidoo
WHO WILL WAKE JUSTICE UP?
Beverley Naidoo (published by TES 9.11.2001 entitled ’Real suffering speaks truth about injustice’)
Imagine a narrow school hall filled with teenage schoolgirls in the week after September 11th. They have read the opening of my novel The Other Side of (...)
A Little Piece of Ground
Monday 10 February 2014
Elizabeth Laird With Sonia Nimr
What Liz Laird said about writing the book:
http://www.elizabethlaird.co.uk/#!a-little-piece-of-ground/cyw1
Outside the home of the Aboudi in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, an Israeli tank blocks the street. Armed troops have kept the inhabitants inside (...)
Palestinians in Fiction for Young People
Monday 10 February 2014
Elsa. Marston
Wasafiri Issue 60, December 2009
Elsa Marston
No matter how subtly, or how well wrapped in drama, fantasy or humour, literary fiction for young people conveys values — and surely we would not want it any other way. Of quite a different order, however, is the reflection of a (...)
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter
Monday 10 February 2014
Anne Carter
Award Letter
February 2, 2009
Dear Staff of Groundwood Books,
On behalf of the International Reading Association’s Notable Books for a Global Society, it is my distinct pleasure to inform you that our committee has selected one of the extraordinary titles from your publishing house (...)
ICBD 2014
Monday 10 February 2014
Letter to the children of the world
International Children Book Day 2014 Ireland
Readers often ask writers how it is that they write their stories – where do the ideas come from? From my imagination, the writer answers. Ah, yes, readers might say. But where is your imagination, and what is (...)
