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The Palestine/Israel Education Project (PEP) is an initiative of educators and activists based in New York City, created to engage students in critical thinking about the culture, history and current living conditions of Palestinians and Israelis. PEP's objectives include the development of creative, interactive lesson plans and activities in formal and informal educational settings, the compilation of a free-access virtual resource library, and the creation of a well-trained, dynamic team of PEP facilitators. Through this project we are employing popular education methods to empower ourselves and youth as educators and as active members of our communities.

We use Palestinian hip hop videos, lyrics, digital stories, role play exercises, documentary footage, and more to facilitate conversations around racism, occupation, and resistance. We explore ways to raise awareness about the Palestinian struggle while developing with youth in the U.S. ways to articulate and address their own connections to the issues of colonialism, racism, and militarism. We provide concrete activity suggestions, lesson plans, curriculum development, and audio-visual materials for educators and others in similar roles to use on their own.
 
Brooklyn 2 Palestine Music Videos

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Brooklyn 2 Palestine (Part I)

Brooklyn 2 Palestine (Part II)

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US-Palestine Youth-Solidarity Network

U.S.-Palestine Youth

Solidarity Network:


Building partnerships between 

youth leadership programs in

Palestine and the United States



We are excited to announce that PEP has joined with Break the Silence Mural Project, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and a growing network of Palestinian youth organizations in the West Bank to coordinate the U.S.-Palestine Youth Solidarity Network (www.youthsolidarity.net ).

The purpose of this project is to build the media arts capacity of Palestinian youth organizations while building a partnership that builds the youth leadership and development capacity of both Palestinian and US-based youth organizations, primarily those working within immigrant and low-income communities of color.

This summer (2007), we are bringing together staff, facilitators, and leaders from US and Palestinian media arts and cultural organizations to collaborate on workshops that combine youth leadership development and arts-based programming including digital storytelling, spoken word, traditional forms of music, hip hop, and web design.  more...

Great News:

In January 2007, Break the Silence Mural Project, PEP (Palestine Education Project), and MECA (Middle East Children's Alliance) joined an intergenerational team of Palestinian facilitators and completed a 6-day digital storytelling workshop with Ibdaa and Lajee , two youth centers in the West Bank.

The workshop brought new media arts technology and skills to support the existing oral history and youth development work of both organizations. It also gave us the opportunity to develop educational tools about Palestine created by Palestinians for use in the U.S., as well as outreach and fundraising materials for the U.S.-Palestine Youth Solidarity Network. more...