Look at our Lives

Organised by Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association

Funded by Youth in Action

Click here for new project: Women's visit 2012

11-21 November 2011: LOOK AT OUR LIVES:

Meetings of British + Palestinian students.

Leaflet: pdf pdf

"Dar Assadaqa celebrates Human Rights Day" [Sawt alMedina, Arabic]

Look at Our Lives: report on the London visit [Al Quds University]

Look at our Lives in the news

Students from Al Quds University visit LSE

Dar Assadaqa group return to homeland [Maan - Arabic]

Younes talks about Motassem [Youtube]

Photos from Palestine

Photos from Britain - coming soon....

Project summary:

Look at our Lives (Meetings of Palestinian and British students)

This exchange will bring eight students from Al Quds University, Palestine to spend nine days with students from UCL and SOAS in London. They will meet to compare their experiences and find out about their lives as students through a photography project that will become the basis for stronger links between the student bodies in the two countries.

Before travelling, the Palestinian group will take photographs of their lives as students to become material during the exchange visit. British students will prepare to host the exchange. The two groups will meet using the computer messenger in order to make arrangements for the visit.

Their programme together in Britain will be an exploration of London and student life with a camera. They will prepare photographs for an exhibition that will compare student life in Palestine and Britain, their rights as students and human rights issues.

The exhibition will be launched in a final workshop day with other students from London. Other students from Al Quds University will join through a computer link. The final session of the workshop will be a discussion between the two groups about future activities between the student groups.

Following the visit, the exhibition will continue to be used with student groups and the photographs will be put on a website and in small booklet in English and Arabic to allow use in both countries.

Students visit leaflet pdf