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From left to right, the author's aunt, mother and grandmother on the land they used to harvest in Jordan. (Photo courtesy of the author.)

Three generations after the Nakba, still struggling to define home

For Madlaine Ahmad, born and raised in Doha to Palestinian parents with Jordanian citizenship, the answer to ‘where are you from?’ is never simple, and always seems to be wrong. By Madlaine Ahmad I changed my Facebook profile picture the other day. It was a photo of a fair woman covered in gold and henna.…

By +972 Magazine October 26, 2018

Illustrative photo of Palestinian youth in front of a Nakba ruin. (YouTube screenshot)

Meet the Palestinian youth planning their return

A group of young Palestinian citizens from the northern city of Umm al-Fahm, descendants of families displaced in 1948 of their villages, meets every week to discuss identity, national oppression, and the Nakba. As part of the ‘Odna’ project — return in Arabic — the teenagers focus on planning of the return of the Palestinian refugees.

By Social TV August 14, 2017