Dundee-Nablus Twinning Association

Dundee–Nablus

Twinning Association

رابطة توأمة نابلس دندي

News

DNTA Convener's report 2018

Strategic developments

Alister Rutherford, Convener of DNTA, records our activities over the last year and sets out plans for the coming year.

AGM 2018

AGM

New committee elected

DNTA members elected a new commitee and completed their formal business..

Tuesday 12th June 2018

"Hope in Nablus"

AGM

Tales from the Nablus Festival 2018

Sandy Stuart and Mike Whitehead visited the 2018 Nablus Festival in our Twin City of Nablus. They described their delight at the range of performers and exhibitions. Their illustrated talk captured the music, the people they met and their experiences of Nablus.

The AGM is open to all but only DNTA members can vote. We welcome new members - you can join at the meeting.

Meeting with Lord Provost Ian Borthwick

Promoting the twinning

We had a productive meeting with the Lord Provost of Dundee, Ian Borthwick on Monday 12th Feb 2018. As an official twinning, it is the Lord Provost of Dundee and the Mayor of Nablus who are responsible for the formal links between our cities.

DNTA works to build friendship and understanding by engaging with the people of Dundee to encourage visits and relationships.

We look forward to continuing our programmes with the help of the Lord Provost and Dundee City Council. It will be our 40th Anniversary in 2020 when we will celebrate with events and activities.

1001 Olive Trees

San Ghanny choir event

San Ghanny Choir

We were very pleased to welcome this Edinburgh-based San Ghanny community choir to Dundee. We were entraced by their performance.

They included songs and experiences from their visit to Palestine in April. During this time they performed in Nablus at the Cultural Festival.

We were saddened by some of their stories, engrossed by their descriptions and uplifted by their songs and tales of joy and hope amongst the Palestinians.

Six Day War testimonies from Nablus

It is 50 years since the Six Day War of 1967, the invasion of Nablus and the start of an occupation which continues to this day.

The invasion was a terrifying experience for the people of Nablus. We asked six people to recall their memories of that time - they make very moving and compelling testimonies.

Our booklet with these testimonies is now available online

Read our booklet here (or as a PDF)

Older news

You can also read about some of our Older news and events

Some of the included items:

AGM 2016
Convener's report 2016
Palestinian literary festival 2015
Embroidery project 2014

About DNTA

Welcome to the Dundee-Nablus Twinning Association

We encourage friendship and understanding between the people of Nablus and the people of Dundee.

We welcome members who share our objectives. So for enquiries, to leave comments about the website, or to join the Association, please email our secretary, Mike Whitehead: secretary@dundee-nablus.org.uk

Current projects

Children in traditional Palestinian dresses

Schools twinning

As part of the studies of Global Citizenship, pupils in Dundee are making contact with pupils in Nablus. They will be able to discuss their lives in their different cities, their favourite activities and their hopes.

Child Trauma Recovery - Nablus

Our project is training school counsellors in Nablus to deliver effective relief for trauma. They will be using the acclaimed manual on complex grief and trauma developed by the Children and War Foundation of Norway. Training will be delivered by Dr Ian Barron of the University of Dundee through the Palestinian Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE). We are appealing for funding for this project.

DNTA Films

Our films about the people of Nablus shows the city and lets you hear about their lives in their own words. Making this film celebrated 33 years of twinning between Dundee and Nablus.