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Of Mosul and Ice Cream
" Forget art, put your hope in ice -cream " Words by Charles Baxter that our Kids from Mosul definitely agree with. 5 pm on Friday...
Jul 16, 20173 min read


That first sight...
" There is no warning for the sight of a first child. There should be a song for women to sing at that moment, or a prayer to recite. But...
Jul 12, 20174 min read


Magnificent Behavior
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty...
Jul 10, 20172 min read


Video: The horrors of ISIS (Hebrew)
Lisa Miara speaks at the Herzliya Conference #English #Video
Jul 4, 20171 min read


Saving the Kids - Tales of Former ISIS Child Prisoners
Source: https://clarionproject.org/saving-kids-tales-former-isis-child-prisoners/ #Video #English
Jun 8, 20171 min read


Of March, almond blossom and dignity in mud
Years in Jerusalem have taught me not to trust March. Or almond blossom. Just about always it would be on those so called perfect days,...
Apr 17, 20173 min read


Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody Dies
So wrote the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Childhood should be sounds, smells, hopscotch, skateboards, pink tutus and ballet shoes,...
Apr 17, 20174 min read


VIDEO: Journey into Iraq's Kurdistan with Lisa Miara
Michal Michelle Divon of i24 News' "High Definition" segment in an Interview with our Lisa #English
Feb 14, 20171 min read


Feb 14, 20171 min read


Jan 31, 20171 min read


Desolation Dwellers and a Pop Up Shop
The Nobel Prize Winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel was a believer in words and a believer in questions. He said, that to not...
Jan 31, 20174 min read


The Darkness Dwellers
In her book " A Court of Mist and Fury," Sarah Maas spoke about darkness. " There are different kinds of darkness. There is the darkness...
Jan 31, 20174 min read


My Kid and his Mission
My kid. Yes that one. The ten year old going on forty. Intelligent and sharp. He dropped by today for tea. Came with his sister and...
Jan 31, 20172 min read


Saad's Project
Here in Shariya Village there is never a dull moment. But some things happen with boring regularity such as garbage. One morning, same as...
Jan 31, 20174 min read


December Diary
A pictorial chronicle of a cry and call to responsibility. Of lives touched by gentle acts of kindness and compassion given with love and...
Jan 4, 20172 min read


Remember Ralph McTell?
I don't but some words of a vague ditty went through my head on one of those freezing Kurdistan days so I just had to look him up. (...
Jan 1, 20176 min read


VIDEO: Slideshow of our work
#English
Dec 6, 20161 min read
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