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The Palestinian Perspective

What the World Looks Like from the West Bank and Gaza

by Pamela Olson

This hour-long talk presented on the Google campus offers an overview of the situation in the Palestinian territories. The first half-hour features photos and personal stories about life in Palestine while the second half-hour explains the basics of the occupation.


Click here to watch it on YouTube




A Few Pictures from Around Palestine



Ramallah


Al Manara Square - The center of Ramallah


Near Al Manara Square


Mural in downtown Ramallah


Yummy green olive pizza and Italian chicken sandwiches


Pronto - The Italian restaurant where I spend entirely too much time


Ziryab coffee house


Palestine's beer, Taybeh. Taste the Revolution.


Snobar outdoor cafe and public pool on a long, lazy summer Sunday


Ramallah at dusk


My friend John's wedding in the Latin Church in Ramallah


A pretty corner in this lovely church


Poster for Circus Behind the Wall


Palestinian Circus School - adult training session


My first Trapeze lesson


Ramallah Cultural Palace


Concert at the French Cultural Center by a mixed Palestinian and international group


There had to be one, right?


Jawwal, Palestine's cell phone company, has a swanky new headquarters


Plaza Mall in Al Bireh just north of Ramallah


Bir Zeit University, the most prestigious university in Palestine, a few miles north of Ramallah


Acqua Viva - A fun park north of Ramallah


The Freedom Theater in Jenin Refugee Camp


Harvesting olives in Salem village, near Nablus


All the land in the photograph (except the most distant mountains) belongs to Salem, but Israeli settlers have built an Israeli-only road as well as an enormous trench through it and taken control of huge areas of it


While shepherds watched their flocks by night...


View of Salem village from the fields


Harvesting those dusty dark lavender fruits