Mixed Cities course meeting
Mixed cities group met on May 3,2019 for a bilingual conversation, they talked about the last Knesset elections and attended a lecture called “ Berlin as a mixed city” by a Syrian refugee in Berlin.
The lecture was about struggles refugees face there, facing right extremists, and dealing with dictatorships around the world.
The group also discussed motivations behind being active at this period of time. Mirvat, a Palestinian participant from Lod shared a children’s story “The Attentive Rabbit” through the story she reflected her need for understanding in order to be active. At the end participants introduced initiatives they work on.
Among the initiatives were:
Common residence space in Lod, database for cultural bilingual activities, Arabic-Jewish photography course, an association for promoting Arabic culture, Narrative creativity space in Jaffa, Nakba stories evenings