From culture and food, to music and literature, We Are Palestinian is a celebration of Palestinian heritage. Brought to life by award-winning writer Reem Kassis, every spread is filled with wonderful anecdotes, fascinating facts, memorable quotes and beautiful illustrations by Noha Eilouti, an emerging Palestinian-Canadian illustrator. Discover all about the history of iconic Palestinian symbols like tatreez embroidery, or the inspiration behind Mahmoud Darwish's poetry. As you turn every page, you'll find yourself lost in the world of Dabke (the folk dance of Palestine) and amazed by its famous old cities, you'll try traditional food like knafeh, explore the different religions, and find out much more. Each spread of We Are Palestinian is accessible, richly inspiring and visually stunning. Young readers are going to love discovering more about Palestine. This is the perfect book for parents and caregivers wishing to explore new worlds of culture and custom with children.
Mass unemployment between the wars produced one of the most imaginative and combative oranisations in British working-class history, the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. This is the first overall history of the NUWM, and traces its previously unrecorded final years as well as making clear the movement's impressive achievements and enduring legacy.
We Rise: Voice and Survivorship began as a series of workshops led by vocal practitioner Marged Siôn in collaboration with We Rise Hub in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
The project explores the possibilities of Voice as an embodiment practice to support women and non-binary people, who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse and gender-based violence. Through different exercises, we connected with our breath, resonance, body alignment, and imagination, as resources for vocal liberation.
Below are some of the questions that emerged from the project:
- How do we speak from our hearts?
- When is telling our stories healing and transformative?And when is it re-traumatising? And how can we create capacity within ourselves to know the difference?
- How can voicing and sounding together enable us to find strength in collectivity?
- How can working with the voice lead to personal and social transformation?
Following a two year collaborative process, we decided to create a free resource to share our experiences and exercises with other survivors, organisers, and practitioners, who are working towards futures free from intimate, interpersonal and state violence.
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We Rise: Voice and Survivorship resource. Commissioned by Serpentine Civic in collaboration with We Rise Domestic Abuse Hub. Photo: Matthew Ritson
This booklet illustrates buildings which until recently were thought to be just a commonplace background to everyday life. It is not a history of industrial housing in Wales - that has yet to be written - but it does try to link the variety of house form which can (or rather, could) be seen in our towns with the conditions of life experienced by our ancestors. After this introduction, there are five sections in the booklet, each dealing with one aspect of the development of house design.
The first ever picture book addressing how a disabled child might want to be spoken to.
What happened to you? Was it a shark? A burglar? A lion? Did it fall off?
Every time Joe goes out the questions are the same . . . what happened to his leg? But is this even a question Joe has to answer?
A ground-breaking, funny story that helps children understand what it might feel like to be seen as different.
In "What Is to Be Done?", Lenin argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert the working class to Marxism, Lenin insists that Marxists should form a political party, or "vanguard", of dedicated revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers. The pamphlet partly precipitated the split of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) between Lenin's Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks and is perhaps the hallmark of Leninism.
“I’ve had my suspicions for a while. But now I know the truth. Someone has replaced my sister with a girl that looks a lot like her...”
And so a young girl sets out to find out exactly what happened to her sister. Who is this new sister? Why does she never want to play anymore? For anyone who has ever felt left behind, Simona Ciraolo, paints a touchingly sweet portrayal of the transience of childhood and how adolescence and growing up can be a truly mystifying experience.
A children's book that talks about Palestine’s history, culture and identity. The story is about a little girl called Zenah, who was playing with her friends at school in Canada, when she was surprised to learn that her friends didn't know Palestine and had never heard of it! Luckily, her grandmother was visiting from Palestine, so Zenah rushed to Grandma to ask her to tell her the story.
Gboyega Odubanjo’s debut marks the start of an exciting career. His is a voice that draws you in, intrinsically contemporary, grounded in something timeless. With an enviable lightness of touch, he explores themes such as race, mortality and the fallibility of faith—‘i believing foolish in the heat of it / assumed sweat was communion / fever god given’. The poems in While I Yet Live beat to a luxurious musicality; prayers and confessions, these are poems to read to yourself aloud.