Mujawarah for Life and Development
World Refugee Day: What Is the World Really Afraid of in Refugees? Maree Bashir Founder and Director of Mujawarah for Life and Development Every year, World Refugee Day arrives accompanied by the same images: boats crossing dangerous waters, rows of tents, exhausted faces, children waiting at borders, and statistics that
Mujawarah Launches Training Programme for Community Initiative Coordinators and Facilitators Mujawarah for Life and Development has launched its training programme for coordinators and facilitators of community initiatives and projects during an opening session that brought together participants from Palestine (the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) as well as Palestinians
مكانة التعاونيات في الدستور الفلسطيني المؤقت قراءة في حوارية متخصصة حول مكانة الاقتصاد التعاوني في الإطار الدستوري The English version is provided below في ظل النقاشات الجارية حول مسودة الدستور الفلسطيني المؤقت، تبرز مسألة مكانة التعاونيات ضمن الإطار الدستوري للنظام الاقتصادي بوصفها قضية ذات أهمية خاصة. إذ تُظهر قراءة المسودة
An Introduction to a Workshop That Reveals More Than It Discusses Writer and researcher Nour Hoteit opened the workshop by placing the Beit Sahour experience within a wider Arab landscape where the right to healthcare is collapsing under the weight of crises. From Lebanon’s economic freefall, to Gaza’s hospitals turned
Bizzaria: When Isolation Turned into a Collective Women-Led Initiative Among the hills stretching to the north-west of Nablus, the village of Bizzaria stands as though encircled by a belt of isolation. Three governorates surround it from every direction, yet proximity never meant ease of movement—especially during the Second Intifada, when
Mujawarah / Palestine The image was flickering, the sound cutting in and out - yet one thing in the conversation remained clear: the will to continue. Nour Hoteit, facilitator of the session on behalf of Mujawarah for Life and Development, opened the dialogue by reflecting on the Gazans who have
Dialogue with the Beit Emmaus Cooperative – Jerusalem: When Women Create the Act of Life Where Bread Meets the Earth In Jerusalem, where the scent of bread mingles with the scent of the soil, stories are born from working hands. In the village of al-Qubeibeh, northwest of the city, a
In Palestine, life is not measured by what people own, but by what they manage to preserve amid constant attempts at erasure. There, where the everyday becomes a struggle for survival, the cooperative movement rises as one of the most resilient and enduring forms of steadfastness. These are not merely
Context: Mujawarah is an Arabic concept centred on encounter and dialogue. It reflects a way of being together that becomes a social medium for learning, exchange, and shared community life. From Absence to the Question In many parts of the world, September brings the sounds of children heading to school,
By: Maree Bashir In a world growing increasingly fragile, and at a time when grand narratives are breaking down, the word “development” carries a weight it can no longer bear. We hear it in speeches, we see it in projects, but it rarely resembles the life we know — a
