Dundee – Nablus Twinning Association

رابطة توأمة نابلس دندي

Welcome to the website of the Dundee Nablus Twinning Association. We exist to encourage friendship and understanding between the people of Nablus and the people of Dundee.

For enquiries, to leave comments about the website, or to join the Association, please email our secretary, Mary Henderson: maryhenderson@uku.co.uk

Exhibition of Tartriz

University of Abertay foyer, Tue 2nd - 19th June 2009 Free.

An exhibition of Palestinian embroidery with an echo of Scottish Tartans. Also photos of Nablus by Claire Pouget Wright.

View photos available on our website by clicking the picture below.

Events

Recent news

March/April 2009 Come to the Souk!
Stalls, exhibition, talk, quiz, smells, food and music giving a taste of Nablus and its people. More ...

8th March 2009 Eat and Meet Palestinian Women
Two women from the Nablus "Family Defence Society" came to talk about their work with domestic violence. More ...

week of 17th November 2008
Visitors from Nablus came to Dundee to help us celebrate Nablus week. The Lord Provost hosted a Civic Reception and made the delegates welcome. They visited Ninewells Hospital, Tayside Fire & Rescue and Waste Management. We took them to Edinburgh to see the Scottish Parliament and Edinburgh Castle.

Older news

23rd August  2008 DNTA at Youth Festival 2008
Nablus delegates unable to travel because of visa problems but DNTA members carried the flag for Nablus. More ...

20th November 2007 Nablus Dinner at Dundee College
A special event with delicious food (Scottish and Palestinian) prepared by the excellent chefs at Dundee College.  Includes wine.  More ...

18th November 2007 - Nablus Day leaflets
Members of DNTA will be distributing leaflets in the City centre to tell the people of Dundee about the Twinning and encouraging them to join DNTA.

18th November 2007 - Nablus Day
Churches in the Dundee area have been asked to remember Nablus as we celebrate 27 years of twinning between these two linked cities.

August 2007 Succesful visit from Nablus
In August 2007, a group of 10 members of the National Youth Band and three adult leaders came from Nablus to visit Dundee.  They participated in the Lord Provost of Dundee's Youth Festival.  They played at the DCA, the Shore and at a special Palestinian/Scottish Ceilidh called "Music & Mezze".

This was organised by Dundee Nablus Twinning Association in aid of the Red Crescent Children's Hospital, Nablus. Click here to see a PDF format A4 flyer of the event.

August 2007 Acting Mayor unable to come to Dundee

April 2007 Twinning Contact with Nablus Set To Improve

August 2006 Nablus Mayor Adly Yaish is unable to visit Dundee
(scroll down for Lord Provost's statement)

November 2005 Celebrating 25 years of twinning between Dundee and Nablus