Recently Al-Jazeera aired Special series called Made in Palestine. Its an interesting and a must watch series.
The documentary looks at the last keffiyeh maker in the West Bank: 76 years old, he has finally fallen victim to a cocktail of competition from China, globalisation and Israeli occupation.
Read More Post a comment (3)The keffiyeh is an ancient Arabic headdress, designed to keep you cool in the hot Middle Eastern summers and warm in the chill of winter.
But it is more than just a practical headdress and over recent decades it has come to symbolise the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
At one time, small factories in the West Bank were producing thousands of keffiyeh’s a day, but the forces of today’s global economy means that cheap imports are now much more available.
Recently Al-Jazeera aired Special series called HollyLand Grab. Its an interesting and a must watch series. The whole series is basically on Israel’s plan to use eviction and archaeology to weld Jerusalem together.
Read More Post a comment (0)Jerusalem has been fought over, dreamt about and worshiped in for hundreds of years.
Israel was the city’s most recent conqueror, capturing the eastern part of the city in 1967, bringing the whole of Jerusalem under its control – in defiance of international law.
In the 30 years since the country has been working with determination to weld the two parts of the city together to form the eternal, indivisible capital the Jewish state envisions…
