Following this I’ve been invited to participate in a short podcast done by international journalism students at City University for Guardian Unlimited. It’s a quick look at City University’s Olive Tree project, where 12 Israeli & Palestinian students come to the UK to take undergrad’ studies and to spend some time together.
* [The person who will solve the problem of my-voice-on-audio-sounds-oh-my-god-so-horrific should be rich and famous.]
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That was very interesting - thanks for posting it. And your voice is nice! quite sexy actually
I would love to be able to do some work with Palestinian and Israeli young people - but I feel very ashamed that my Arabic is so poor, having lived in the UK all my life. (particularly as my father was a professor of Arabic!) It’s so interesting how separate Palestinian and Israeli culture can be. I met an Israeli academic at a conference and he was worried when he found out that I was Palestinian because he genuinely thought all Palestinians wanted Israelis dead. He was not a young man! probably in his 40’s (I don’t mean that’s old - after all I am over 50, but not a youth) We spoke at length and when he went back he set up an Israeli-Palestinian cultural exchange group based on food (my suggestion) in his university and after a slow start it went really well apparently. The Palestinian in the podcast was quite skeptical about how much could change from the Olive Tree programme but it is remarkable what can grow from a small seed.
Posted 23 Nov 2007 at 12:57 am ¶Thanks snowqueen - thats very kind.
There are so many things that could be done….we need an extra 8 hours in a day.
I hope we’ll be able to meet up soon and chat about stuff.
Posted 28 Nov 2007 at 5:33 pm ¶That would be nice - I do come up to London from time to time.
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