Saturday, June 16, 2012

Memory Lanes


The people of Palestine have experienced numerous dislocations, pressures, and assaults over recent generations which have destroyed and dispersed thousands of families and entire cities.
 


 For a population which had lived in a comparatively static and traditional culture for centuries, these shocks have not been easy to adapt to. One small ongoing strategy of national recovery is to remind themselves of the lives of preceding Palestinians in the region – in the form of mini-biographies of those for whom the local streets in Ramallah have been named.
 

 
These histories serve to remind pedestrians of the achievements of Palestinian and Arab era in this region . . .

 . . . . . and also as a reminder of the price in human lives which the conflict continues to impose.

 

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