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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
Stories by the Children of Jerusalem Illustrated by the children of Gaza "On love and Occupation"
Monday 17 December 2018
Malak Sayyed Ahmad 13 Years
Nadia Khalil - 15years
Love has Levels
I was born in Jerusalem I like imagination and my imagination is very wide, it came to me out of my passion for reading. I read many books, stories and novels, among them the novel “the Remains of Mary’ and I connected it (...)
Stories by the Children of Jerusalem Illustrated by the children of Gaza Our Life in Jerusalem
Monday 17 December 2018
Hala Saleh -13 Years
Riham al Zaaneen- 15 years
My name is Hala, I was born in 2005, on a day of Eid el Fitr, it was at a late hour of the night. I like playing and to fun and my favorite color is rose. I live in Jerusalem, it is the most beautiful city in the world in my opinion. I will talk (...)
Stories by the Children of Jerusalem Illustrated by the children of Gaza The Oppressed Jerusalem
Monday 17 December 2018
Nasra Hamed- 13 years/ Jerusalem
Mahaba Shrim 13 years/Gaza
I write in these lines about Jerusalem, the precious Jerusalem and the closest place to our hearts. Yes and I speak of specific places in it and I mean the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in its spirituality and the beauty of its (...)
Stories by the Children of Jerusalem Illustrated by the children of Gaza My Favorite Child
Monday 17 December 2018
Hala Jaabari – 8 Years
Imad Hissi & Hamza Abu Sinieh 13 years
I live in Jerusalem, like a bird whose heart is full of sorrow, despite that no one can resist the joy of being in Jerusalem; so I promised myself to liberate Jerusalem at all costs, nothing will stop me, I will resist, and (...)
Stories by the Children of Jerusalem Illustrated by the children of Gaza Damascus Gate
Monday 17 December 2018
Hizar Ja’bari – 8 Years
Minna Allah Hassan – 12 years
I am Hizar. I am eight years old, I live in Jerusalem, and I will tell you my story. Let us begin: I like Damascus Gate because it has the market where fruits and vegetables are sold, the sweets I love, like the cake of the feast, and sesame (...)
The Campaign for Encouraging Reading in Palestinian Society
Wednesday 28 November 2018
The campaign “Dad read to me” from within the campaign of encouraging reading in Palestinian society, organized by Tamer Institute every year. The two libraries of IBBY Palestine participated in this campaign. The children in the Shawka library discussed the story “Mama Zooms” and it is a pretty (...)
PBBY Honors the Palestinian Winners in IBBY International Honor List
Wednesday 24 October 2018
IBBY/ Palestine held, on the seventeenth of October, a celebration to honor the distinguished winners of the International Honor List for the two periods 2014-2016 and 2016-2018 in an atmosphere of intimacy and pride:
The successful meeting was led by Mary Fasheh vice president of PBBY. She (...)
Expressive, Creative and Therapeutic Arts
Friday 5 October 2018
In mid September there was an interesting meeting of IBBY Palestine with Khitam Edelbi who is specialized in expressive arts in psychotherapy and works in the early childhood Resource Center (also preparing for doctorate “playback theater therapy” which is to relate the stories coming from the (...)
(36 IBBY )Writings by Palestinian children in Gaza
Sunday 30 September 2018
In the 36 IBBY Congress in Athens a large textile Banner prepared by the children of IBBY’s two libraries in Gaza was presented. The distinguished Banner that has some of the children illustrations including in the midst, the Palestinian flag.
Many of the children wrote about their love for (...)
A problem solved
Thursday 23 August 2018
My Favorite Personality
Thursday 23 August 2018
I love jerusalem and I love reading
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Dreams of Freedom in Words and Pictures
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Dreams of Freedom in Words and Pictures
A Children book by Amnesty International Below is the part about Palestinian Children FREEDOM TO HAVE A HOME
One day we will return to our homeland snug and warm with our hopes ... Oh, heart, no matter how far the winds scatter us We will return to our (...)
Recreation and Learning Day - Love of Books & Life!
Wednesday 18 November 2015
This distinguished activity is an important psycho-social tool to reduce the great stress and sufferings of Palestinian children in occupied and besieged Gaza still traumatized by the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
It was a day that gathers the children in an open relaxing place where we (...)
Solidarity Appeal with Palestinian Children & People
Friday 23 October 2015
A new generation of Palestinian spontaneous rebellion!
Palestinians have never surrendered to occupation. Today, the young generation of Palestinians ‘is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up against Israel’s brutal, decades-old system of occupation, settler colonialism (...)
