Tag: Dundee
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Nurses & Midwives graduate
Fundraising success: We have received graduation reports from Reem and Suha, two of the students we helped through university in Nablus via our charity partner FONSA. They write that our support is not just financial but provides an emotional antidote to the damage from living in an escalating military occupation. Reem writes: I would like…
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Childcare Cooperative in Nablus
In May, we were contacted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU). Together they were looking to establish a childcare cooperative and nursery in Nablus. The nursery is now operational with 4 children registered and more joining in July. The main aim of the project is to…
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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 Get Together
‘Dundee Get Together‘ is a vibrant new event celebrating the city’s cultural diversity while promoting kindness, inclusion and community spirit. Enjoy a lively programme featuring a Dundee Kindness Exhibition, created by school pupils across the city, alongside a colourful parade showcasing local community groups and cultures. There will also be free interactive activities, diversity music,…
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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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Artworkers for Palestine Dundee: Palestine Reading Circle
Join a peer-led study group, sharing historical accounts, as well as stories, poetry, posters, films and music by Palestinians. Each month will build our understanding of how Palestine has been shaped through periods of colonisation, partition, occupation, resistance and revolution. Together, we’ll study the people’s history of Palestine, the creativity and diversity of the Palestinian resistance,…
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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…