Video: Can Africans Raise Enough to Save Freezing Norwegians?
This short film (3:45) satirizes fundraising for Africa. It’s entertaining, provocative and timely. I Loved it! Please share your comments, and join the growing movement to revolutionize aid from a...
View ArticleVideo: Community investment in Palestine
I recorded this short video with Saeeda Mousa, Executive Director of Dalia Association. In it, she talks about the amazing potential return on investment in the Palestinian community, but it’s not the...
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What internationals should in Palestine is… (Aljazeera appearance)
Click on the image to watch the February 16, 2013 edition of Aljazeera’s “Counting the Cost.” The show is 25 minutes and focuses on aid to Palestine and Kenya. Let me know what you think! The post...
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Palestinian children in Jerusalem perform, just like yours
For those who ask me about daily life in Jerusalem, I’m happy to share this collage of clips from recent cultural performances by children. The halls are packed with proud parents. The children beam...
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Video of book launch: “New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home”
The American Colony Bookshop hosted a conversation with Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson and Rema Hammami, editors of New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home on May 22, 2013. Here are the best 27 minutes...
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Women: Dealing With the Past
It was a tremendous honor to be invited by the impressive and inspirational Community Foundation for Northern Ireland to speak at a learning workshop in Belfast. My talk, intentionally provocative, was...
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Though you’ve never heard of Red-Dead, you should care
One advantage of living here in Palestine is that I often hear about problems or trends long before they hit the news. For example, one full year ago I proposed (unsuccessfully) to a fellowship program...
View ArticleIntroducing Hekmat
This is a one-minute teaser for a series of video interviews with Gazans that I’m releasing in the month before my 50th birthday. A Muslim Palestinian originally from Gaza, Ms. Besisso, 44, currently...
View ArticleMy appearance on RT’s CrossTalk
Please comment. The post My appearance on RT’s CrossTalk appeared first on Nora Lester Murad.
View ArticleNajla Shawa talks about #GazaUnderAttack on July 23, 2014
Follow Naja at @WhateverInGaza. (20 min.) And if you love Najla as much as I do, you may want to see previous conversations we’ve recorded: July 17, 2014 on ground invasion during #GazaUnderAttack (8...
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In Solidarity with Ashraf Fayadh
Read about Ashraf Fayadh, Palestinian poet sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia here: http://arablit.org/2016/01/11/newly-translated-poems-to-read-for-ashraf-fayadh-on-january-14/ In solidarity with...
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Iftar on the rubble
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss here. My father was a social worker on Los Angeles’ skid row for decades. He felt deeply about the humanity of homeless people, and he did what he...
View ArticleThe Militarization of Palestinian Aid
When I was still with Aid Watch Palestine, I co-authored an article with Alaa Tartir about the militarization of Palestinian aid. It was published by Reality of Aid and IBON International here and in...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter: Race & Power in Philanthropy and Development
Segal Family Foundation sponsored #FutureSummit2020, “…a space where we invite our diverse global community of change leaders to deconstruct and reshape trends in Africa from all angles.” It was a...
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Build Palestine’s Social Innovation Summit: Overcoming Donor Dependency.
Overcoming donor-dependency: How can philanthropy tackle the root cause? (47 minutes) Note: If you can’t access this video, try using the code “RADICALIMAGINATION” or email me at...
View ArticleInterview on Boston Media Theory with Marcus Breen
Recorded on October 24, 2020. Available at: https://vimeo.com/469881556 The post Interview on Boston Media Theory with Marcus Breen appeared first on Nora Lester Murad.
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Fiction, reality, the US police, the Red Cross & Palestinians
TV commercials showing beautiful people with windblown hair driving along the California coastline in a convertible have a disclaimer in small print at the bottom of the screen that says something...
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Podcast: Mouin Rabbani interviews Nora Lester Murad & Alison Glick on Jadiliyya
This 50-minute conversation, recorded on November 9, 2021, covers how Allison and I “found” Palestine, what it has meant to us as “foreigners” and Jews, and how we wish to contribute to social justice...
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