Palestinian Refugee Project

  Fattoush Dish.    I would like to share with you the Fattoush salad, which is one of the most important and essential dishes in the holy month of Ramadan. To share with you also the health benefits of Fattoush as it contains many vitamins and minerals that are good for the body after fasting all day. For instance, the Parsley is very cleansing, and loaded with antioxidants, cancer fighting agents and is a wonderful way to support bone health.  The sad fact is the thought that the Palestinians in the diaspora in Lebanon cannot easily secure food in the month of Ramadan, due to the soaring prices of food and cooking materials. This is because of the conditions the Palestinians are forced to live in, the unemployment crisis, because of the Lebanese laws that do not allow them to work outside the camps and of course the collapse of the Lebanese Lira which has been forgotten about because of covid-19. The Fattoush dish is the crown of the Ramadan meal, and it is...

Sobhia Krayem I would like to introduce you to one of the faces of the Palestinian women’s struggle, the beautiful ambassador of Palestinian heritage, Sobhia Krayem. Her family are originally from Saffuriyya in the District of Nazareth, but she was born in Lebanon 70 years ago, a few years after her family were forcibly expelled from Palestine by the Zionist occupation forces during the Nakbah. She is a strong woman who has fought and suffered due to the daily rules of the patriarchal society, the forced Palestinian displacement, the Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 1982, racism and the Lebanese civil war. Palestinian Embroidery However, this did not prevent her from retraining and carrying out various activities. After the Israelis invaded Lebanon, there was a time where she with her husband hosted a big number of people from all different nationalities and religions and provided them a shelter and flour to cook, one of the people who came for shelter, was Naji Al-Ali the Palestinian ...

Ms. Hayat Balha Abu Shmeis, met by chance with Haji Salim Muhammad Salim Abu Junaid, from the town of Al-Khayriyah, Jaffa, where he was born in 1936. During this meeting, this witness to the Palestinian Nakba spoke heartily about his memories in his village, and when he was displaced from it. He talks about the British army, before its withdrawal in 1948 and how they gave their weapons to the Jewish gangs such as the Haganana, the Irgun Stern, and trained them in 1947. Haj Salim described the street of Jamal Pasha as it was beautiful and one of the most beautiful streets in the Middle East at that time. It had Eucalyptus trees lining both sides of the street, and in the middle, there was an island of water.  He added that he was working for Yasser Arafat as a translator to explain to foreigners about the Palestinian Catastrophe /Nakba. Since the promise of the Balfour, who promised to the Jews that he would make a government for them in Palestine. He recounts in his spe...