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Movie review – The Syrian Bride

If you are reading this in April 2020, there’s a good chance you’re among the 2 billion people stuck inside right now to help contain the spread of the corona virus. It can be dull, but there is no better time than now to engage with high quality, thought provoking films! Green Olive is producing […]

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Dustcloud

By Yahav Zohar – September 2015 – For the last few days fine dust has replaced much of the air in  parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel-Palestine. Media has referred to it as a dust-storm, and responded mostly with photos of pedestrians in surgical masks, set against the yellow-grey apocalyptic sky-scape. Photo: NASA But […]

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Multiple Displacement – The Case of Palestinian Refugees in Syria

By Miri –  Since their forced displacement from Palestine in 1948, the scattered Palestinian refugee community has been severely affected by pretty much all of the major conflicts that have been shaking the region, many times leading them to flee their newly established homes yet another time. Escaping the violence in their host countries, be […]

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Ghajar – A Village Under Crossfire

By Miri – “There’s nothing the Arab respects more than a strong steady white hand drawing arbitrary lines betwixt their ridiculous tribal allegiances”   Sir Archibald Mapsalot III It is widely accepted that the geography of today’s Middle East was carved out by Britain and France with no consideration of the thoughts of the people actually […]

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The Syrian Killing Zone

 – by The Green Olive Team – Those of us who have never been in an active war zone can hardly imagine the scale of the suffering in Syria. The recent tragic and criminal poison gas attack, killing about 1,400 civilians in the Jobar Neighbourhood of Damascus, is however dwarfed by the slaughter of over 100,000, […]

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Conflicting Identities, Conflicting Loyalties – The Case of the Druze in Israel

By Miri –  Druze Religion The Druze are a religious community which emerged around the 11th century from Ismailism, the second largest branch of Shia Islam. The main distinguishing factor from other branches of Islam is constituted in the Druze acceptance of the divinity of Hakim, the third Fatimid caliph of Egypt, which also forms […]

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