The Global Grassroots Movement To

Reframe the Arab World

afikra is a pioneering global media and educational platform that evolved from a grassroots movement into a leading engine that fuels intellect in and cultural understanding of the Arab world.

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Salman Abu Sitta

A Realistic Plan of Return For Palestinians to Their Homeland

Dr Salman Abu Sitta lived through the Nakba. In this episode of This Is Not A Watermelon, we hear about his experience, writing his memoir "Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir," and founding the Palestinian Land Society – an organization dedicated to the documentation of Palestine's land and people.

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This is not a watermelon

Palestinian history and culture will not be erased. History warns us how media's dehumanizing rhetoric can pave the way for targeted aggression and allow society to permit atrocities as grave as genocide. It is resolutely within our mission to counteract this dehumanizing narrative. Afikra has always stood in unwavering solidarity with our Palestinian sisters & brothers and individuals of all nationalities and faiths around the world who bravely protest the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and condemn the state violence of the Israeli colonial settler project.

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