Reuters
| May 21, 2013
Raha Moharrak, 25, has stepped over sexist stereotypes in her nation to become the first Saudi female and youngest Arab to cllimb the world's highest mountain. She was part of team who call themselves "Arabs With Altitude," and included the first ...
Reuters
| May 15, 2013
With no hope of return in sight, Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of the Nakba -- "Catastrophe" -- when hundreds of thousands of them were forced from their homes in the 1948 war that established Israel. Reuters speaks to an 83-year-man wh...
Euronews
| May 6, 2013
Google's decision last week to label its home page in the Palestinian territories "Palestine" has hit Israeli officials' last nerve, and delighted Palestinians who see it as one more step in their bid for statehood. "They can do Google 'Never Neve...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 11, 2013
The Syrian civil war has forced thousands of Palestinians to flee the country. Many of these "double refugees" have gone to Lebanon, but some have made their way to Gaza, where they say they have met a warm welcome despite the tough living conditi...
Euronews
| Apr 7, 2013
The mysterious hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched a new cyber attack, called "OpIsrael," against Israeli government and banking web sites to protest the nation's Palestinian policies. Israeli officials insist that web sites are continuin...
Euronews
| Apr 5, 2013
The people of Gaza are facing yet more hardship after the United Nations' chief humanitarian agency suspended operations in response to protestors angered by aid cutbacks storming its headquarters. Around two-thirds of Gaza's population depends on...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 4, 2013
Israeli soldiers and Palestinians have been fighting on the streets of Hebron as thousands gather for three funerals in the occupied West Bank.
In Hebron, a prisoner who died from cancer in an Israeli jail was laid to rest. And two Palestinians s...
Associated Press
| Mar 30, 2013
Israeli troops clashed on Saturday with Palestinians in the West Bank marking Land Day, an annual day of protest against Israel's land policies. Demonstrators hurled stones and set tires on fire at Israeli checkpoints to voice their discontent.
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 29, 2013
Christians marking Good Friday in Jerusalem are part of an ever-shrinking minority, Al Jazeera finds. The city's Christian population has been dwindling since 1946 and has now fallen below 10,000. The believers, most of them Palestinian, say Israe...
— Oct 1, 2011 at 10:35 am
...away again. * Israel, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert makes the ultimate capitulation to Palestinian demands -- 100 percent of the West Bank (...
— Dec 1, 2011 at 12:50 am
— Dec 10, 2011 at 06:34 am
...should be the basis for negotiating peace with the Palestinians. Middle East experts said that Mr. Gingrich's views did not represent those of ...
— Dec 10, 2011 at 06:05 pm
On Friday, Gingrich stirred controversy by denouncing Palestinians as a people, Xinhua reported.
“I think we have had an invented Palestinian peopl...
— Jan 2, 2012 at 03:31 am
JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians announced Sunday that their chief peace negotiators would attend a gathering of international diplomats in ...
The Culture of Palestine is closely related to those of the nearby Levantine countries such as Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and the Arab World. Cultural contributions to the fields of art, literature, music, costume and cuisine express the Palestinian experience despite the geographical separation between Palestinian territories, Israel and the Diaspora.
Al-Quds Capital of Arab Culture is an initiative undertaken by UNESCO under the Cultural Capitals Program to promote Arab culture and encourage cooperation in the Arab region. The opening event was launched in March 2009.
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