Thalge is a young woman in her twenties living in Deir Al-Balah city in the middle of the Gaza Strip. She has a B.A in biology and suffers from partial visual impairment. After graduation, she worked in an educational center for 4 years and then worked as a private school teacher for a year. Iman […]
By/ Salem Elrayyes About two months ago, the siblings, Mohammed and Mai Khatib decided to launch their own business, Al-Wafa for cleaning supplies in Jabalia north of Gaza. They set up a small 5*3 meter space in their home garden and bought the needed tools and raw material. 30 year Mai and her brother Mohammed, […]
Near the Nusseirat market in the middle of the Gaza Strip, Abd Al-Karim is sitting on his wheelchair, facing a wooden desk with many broken cell phones and small pieces of equipment used to repair cell phones. Al-Qarnawi, 29, has a motor disability. He’s married, holds a degree in applied accounting and attended mobile phone […]
In the middle of the market, surrounding the “Sewadi” UNRWA clinic in Gaza City, Mohammed Al-Amarin, sits behind his small street stand, displaying a variety of accessories of Chinese gold. Simply displaying his jewelry and accessories on a wooden board, Al-Amarin sells them in low prices to provide for his family on a daily basis. […]
In the middle of her small room, Seham Abu Owaida sits on the floor covered with various kinds of beads and threads. She uses the needle and string to make a wide range of accessories, antiques and gifts selling them to customers. Like many girls in the Gaza Strip, Abu Owaida who is in her […]
By/ Salem Elrayyes Inside her one bedroom home in Shatai Camp near the shore, Nabila Al-Dadla sits smiling behind her sewing machine turning traditionally embroidered fabrics into elegant Palestinian women wear. Al-Dadla has a partial physical impairment. She learned to sew 20 years ago in a shop for a local organization. She perfected the […]
Omar Abu Rahma stands inside his small workshop, which he built on a part of his home garden. Amidst carpentry equipment and machines, he cuts large timber into small certain-sized pieces he needs to make frames and wooden boxes containing local embroidery. As soon as he finishes cutting the pieces he needs, he sits on […]
By/ Salem Elrayyes In the town of Beit Hanon, north of Gaza Strip, Amani Shabbat sits behind a desk at her shop “Al-Sham” for selling wedding and birthday supplies and decorating wedding cars to serve costumers’ orders and needs. Amani, 30 years old suffers from a spinal condition. As a Social Science graduate from […]
Nearly two years ago, young woman Hanadi (24 years), from Gaza City, went to bed and she was quite all right. Few hours later, when she woke up, Hanadi was shocked as she could not see anything around her. She was terrified and panicked; she loudly shouted to ask for her mother’s help. “Oh Mom, […]
At her 12 age, she forced by debilitate disease to seat at wheel chair, she stooped her school to get busy with her osteoporosis that comes after she starts to get her dermatosis’s medication. Fedaa Al-Refi stays at her room in order to face her disability by paper and pen. She literary starts writings with […]
