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Fighting fire with fellowship
Red Pepper is an independent media project of left politics and culture. They have recently published an article by Rachel Spence reporting on the multiple threats faced by firefighters under occupation. Rachel highlights the acts of solidarity and support between international workers. The piece focuses primarily on the role of the Fire Brigades Union in…
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Dundee and Nablus – An Entwined History
Kate Khair is a DNTA committee member from Bethlehem. She is currently studying for MA in Intellectual History at St Andrews. She has recently published an article on the twinning between Dundee and Nablus on the Woven Together Dundee website. Below we reprint the first part of her article. The whole article is available here…
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Speak Oot Festival – DNTA & FONSA meeting
Monday 20th April at 6.15pm (for 6.30 start) Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) meeting room; 152 Nethergate, DD1 4EA. Hear two speakers, via video link, direct from our twin city, Nablus. Tasame Ramadan & Xavier Abu Eid from SEEDS, a non-profit organisation in Nablus, will speak about the realities of living under Israeli occupation.
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Palestine Comedy Club – The Movie
8pm Tuesday 21 April 2026 Dundee Contemporary Arts centre More information & book tickets here What’s funny about life under occupation? Palestine Comedy Club is a rollercoaster road-movie that follows six Palestinian stand-up comedians from Haifa, Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron and the Golan Heights who devise and tour a stand-up comedy show exploring the unlikely, often…
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Films to mark International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day, DNTA and Dundee Contemporary Arts, in collaboration, will be showing two films by Palestinian film makers: a short film, Daggit Gaza, will be followed by the feature film, Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. Daggit Gaza Daggit Gaza can be translated as the spicy tomato salad made in Gaza (called daggah)…
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Meeting – Life Under Occupation: A Guide to Cultural Survival
Friday 13th February 7pmJust Bee, Meadowside St Paul’s Church114-116 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4EH (West Marketgait entrance)Hosted by the Dundee & Angus Scottish Green Party As cultural, history and walking guides in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, brothers George and Nidal Rishmawi, from Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, have broad experience of what it is like…
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DNTA, Glasgow & Bethlehem
Glasgow and Bethlehem have had a formal friendship agreement since 1992 which became a recognised “twinning” in 2007. However, the twinning is not well known in Glasgow which also has another nine ‘twins’. Glasgow Bethlehem Twinning Association (GBTA), an independent voluntary organisation, was established in 2024 to support the Council’s twinning with Bethlehem. It has…
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Yanoun: Death of a Village
Yanoun, a small Palestinian village a few miles east of Nablus, has recently been erased from existence. Since the mid 1990s, illegal Israeli settlers have been intimidating and perpetrating acts of violence against Yanoun’s residents in an attempt to drive them out. After many years of resistance, in December 2025 the Israeli military forcibly evacuated…
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Sacred Gardens: Understanding Islamic Garden Design
Workshop exploring Islamic gardens, their divine inspiration, and their symbolic use within Islamic art and poetry. Discover how faith, nature, art, and design come together in Islamic garden traditions. Date: Sunday 18 January 2026 Time: 12.00 – 16.00 Venue: V&A Museum Dundee Free. All welcome. No prior booking needed. For more information
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Statement from New Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus on World Children’s Day
To mark World Children’s Day, the following statement was issued by the Askar Refugee Camps’ Association for Community Development. On the occasion of World Children’s Day, which marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the children of New Askar Refugee Camp remind the world that their rights…