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Screenshot from the film Twice Displaced
Video Twice Displaced: Three Generations of Forced Displacement

The story of Palestinian displacement and dispossession passed down from one generation to the next. 

Video Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah—Amal Qassem

Amal Qassem, lifelong resident of Sheikh Jarrah, shares the story of how the home where she was born in 1960 was targeted for takeover by Jewish settlers.

Video Coming of Age in Silwan: Detention and Home Arrest

Detention and home confinement as experienced by three Palestinian high school students in the neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem

Screen shot from the film The Awaited Cannon
Video The Awaited Cannon

The firing of the Ramadan cannon is a centuries-old tradition. How did it begin, and what meanings and memories does it evoke for the community?

Video Yearning for Ramadan

A jeweler in the Old City shares his wistful dreams for the holy month of Ramadan as it approaches. What’s he wishing for?

Video Behind the Wall

Teresa, 22, lives in Ramallah, but she’s never seen nearby Jerusalem due to Israel’s Separation Wall and permit regime. What lies behind the wall?

Headshot of Mohammed El-Kurd of Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem
Video Home Front: Mohammed El-Kurd

Mohammed El-Kurd, 14, narrates his experience of sharing his family home with the Jewish settlers who forcibly expelled the El-Kurds from the two-room extension they added in the 1990s.

Rifka El-Kurd resists Jewish settlers taking over part of her home in Sheikh Jarrah on December 1, 2009
Video The Takeover of Part of the Rifka El-Kurd Family Home in Sheikh Jarrah

What does a forcible home expulsion actually entail? 

A house in Wadi Yasul, Silwan, Jerusalem
Video Wadi Yasul: The Jerusalem Neighborhood Slated for Demolition and Replacement by the “Peace Forest”

Residents of Wadi Yasul share their daily lived realities as targets for intended erasure from the landscape.