Characters Archives - Beyond the frontlines https://beyondthefrontlines.com/category/characters/ resistance and resilience in Palestine Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:54:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Rula Abu Diho https://beyondthefrontlines.com/rula-abu-diho-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:38:42 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=41 Former political prisoner and Addameer* member

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]]> Rula Abu Diho was a political prisoner and is a member of Addameer, an NGO supporting Palestinian political prisoners.

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]]> archbishop Theodosios Atallah Hanna https://beyondthefrontlines.com/archbishop-theodosios-atallah-hanna-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:57:15 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=33 Archbishop of Sebastia of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem

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]]> Mgr Theodosios de Sebastia (born Atallah Hanna) has been the head of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem since 2005

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]]> Deema and her children https://beyondthefrontlines.com/deema-and-her-children-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:28:25 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=44 Mother and resident of Jérusalem-East

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]]> Deema Zalloum lives in Shu’afat, an East-Jerusalem neighborhood. She managed to prevent three Israelis from kidnapping her son.

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]]> Ghadir Shafie https://beyondthefrontlines.com/ghadir-shafie-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 10:25:52 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=47 Co-director of Aswat* : feminist movement for equal sexual rights and freedoms

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]]> Ghadir Shafie is co-Director of Aswat (Arabic for “voices”), a feminist and queer Palestinian women’s group. An activist against pinkwashing, she is also engaged in the international Boycott Disinvestment and Sanction (BDS) Campaign.

→ Article on pinkwashing published in Kohl titled; Pinkwashing- Israel’s International Strategy and Internal Agenda. (kohl, summer 2015) → docmh.com

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]]> Samah Jabr https://beyondthefrontlines.com/samah-jabr-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 09:29:21 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=51 Psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer

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]]> Dr. Samah Jabr is a Palestinian psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer.
She graduated from Al Quds University (Jerusalem), Pierre-et-Marie- Curie University and Diderot University (Paris), and the Israeli Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She addresses the individual and collective psychological damage of the Israeli occupation.
Born in East-Jerusalem, Dr. Samah Jabr works in various cities of the West Bank. She was Head of the Ramallah Community Mental Health Centre and is now Chair of the Mental Health Unit at the Ministry of Health. As a clinician, she holds a private practice as well, and also works as a medical trainer and advisor for local and international NGOs.
She has been writing since the late 1990s, and has testified to the Palestinian daily experience in numerous articles and lectures. Alongside the documentary, her eponymous book Derrière les fronts : chroniques d’une psychiatre psychothérapeute palestinienne sous occupation [Beyond the Frontlines: Columns from a Palestinian Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist under Occupation] was published by PMN Editions (Paris, 2018). http://www.pmneditions.com
In 2018, she has launched a petition with the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, protesting the decision by the Board of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy to hold its 2019 international conference in Tel Aviv.
→ pmneditions.com
→ everyaction.com
→ What motivates the commitment of Mental Health Professionals for Palestine

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]]> Khodr Adnan https://beyondthefrontlines.com/khodr-adnan-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 08:31:41 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=55 Baker and former political prisoner

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]]> Sheikh Khodr Adnan was a political prisoner. He led a successful 55-day hunger strike to protest against administrative detention in Israeli prisons.

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]]> Damascus Gate https://beyondthefrontlines.com/damascus-gate-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 07:34:05 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=58 ...

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]]> Abaher Al-Sakka https://beyondthefrontlines.com/abaher-al-sakka-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 06:36:33 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=61 sociologist

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]]> Dr. Abaher El-Sakka is a native from Gaza, holds a PhD in Sociology and currently chairs the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Birzeit University.
→ Abaher El Sakka & Sandra Mehl “The humiliation ceremony” , Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2015

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]]> Jerusalem Parkour https://beyondthefrontlines.com/jerusalem-parkour-5gzm/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:55:47 +0000 https://beyondthefrontlines.com/?p=65 باركور القدس

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*Video made by Parkour Jerusalem

Invented in the 90’s in the French suburbs to appropriate the urban space, the young people of Parkour Jerusalem also play with the walls: by practicing their art of displacement, they live in their city and bring another impetus to it.

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