Palestinian Refugee Project

  The Palestinian Musakhan is a popular Palestinian dish, as well as sometimes being considered the traditional dish and a symbol of the Palestinian heritage. It is often called the national dish of Palestine. Although today, it is often difficult for the Palestinians in the diaspora to prepare it, and perhaps for those in occupied Palestine too. This is due to the excessive cost of living for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a country that is going through financial hardship beyond imagination, and has a pathetic economy. Lebanon is a beautiful country that has a rich history of culture and urbanization, but it lacks any pity towards the Palestinian refugees who were hosted there after the Nakbah in 1948. Lebanon has stripped them of their civil, political, and economic rights. A significant percentage of Palestinians who live there, against their will, still live in camps surrounded by Lebanese army checkpoints, some of these camps are fenced with high walls, which magica...

  Among the Palestinians, whether they are from the occupied Palestine or the diaspora, there are those who are pure Palestinian origin and there are who are of mixed race; you will find amongst them a variety of people with brown eyes, just like the colour of the Palestinian soil in the Holy Land, or black like the colour of the darkness of the night, or the blue colour of the sea, or the green colour of the meadows dressed up by the beautiful spring coat. Some of them have black, brown, red, or blond hair colour. There are who are tall, short, and middle stature. There are Palestinians with a beautiful skin colour, tanned after their skin is kissed by the sun, and those who are either with a darker or lighter beautiful skin colour. We have the heavenly religions, the Abrahamic religions and we do not call ourselves BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic), we do not use categories or labels. In 2019 I came across the term BAME, and I was not happy about it. I remember growi...

  I am proud of what we have done, and I usually look for quality, not quantity. And although there is double standards, hypocrisy, and public preference between Palestinians and other victims of wars, I was expecting that there would be no presence at this event, I know that, and the truth is that others know that too. Still, I insisted that I hold this gathering, which I knew would be attended by a small number - with the help of some People which you can count on the fingers of one hand – to mark the memory of the Nakba, which has been going on for 74 years.   Let everyone know that the Palestinians will continue to struggle, with or without the crowds. Whoever claims they support us and will stand for us and then does not then help, it shows they are just playing politics for show and do not truly mean it. You can’t fool me, I was born to this sort of behaviour, I know what is real and what is just sham. For example… There are those who claimed that they would co...