We have availability for this program around Easter. Based in Bethlehem with day trips to safe areas around Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Nazareth. For more information send an email to kristelguide@gmail.com

Thobs & Tatreez
A new episode of Stories from Palestine podcast!
Listen to it on your favorite podcast player or use this link:

storiesfrompalestine.buzzsprout.com/1297634/epis...

I enjoy reading this new book 'Under Jerusalem' that I got from the Educational bookstore today!
"The buried history of the world's most contested city" by Andrew Lawler

Thanks to one of the diplomats who once connected me to the responsible person at the Awqaf in Jerusalem, I am able to organize visits for non Muslims inside the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque. A great opportunity to experience these beautiful buildings.

New Macklemore song with strong lyrics and images

youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...

Palestinian sense of humor 😅

People are starting to sign up for this visit in April! The program takes place in safe areas and is adapted to the current situation. Besides sites in and around Bethlehem and Jerusalem it also includes a day trip to Nazareth and the Lake of Galilee. For more details send a message to Saleem!

Seems that a lot of people are showing solidarity and buying books at the Educational bookstore! Mahmoud and Ahmad were released today.

"To open an incitement investigation, the police need approval from the prosecution. It seems they realized they had no chance of getting that approval, so they switched the charge to the more generic 'disturbing public order' offense." Nasser Odeh, lawyer. (Educational bookstore Jerusalem)

Booksellers Mahmud and Ahmad Muna of the Educational bookstore in Jerusalem were arrested for interrogation. They confiscated books and damaged many others.

The best Palestinian Arak is made in Beit Jala by Nader Muaddi. During the Art & Arak tour you can learn everything there is to know about the history of alcohol in general and Arak in particular. I recorded one of the visits as a podcast episode: 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/17yD...

Today in Jenin

I organize visits to the Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock in cooperation with the Awqaf so that non Muslim visitors with genuine interest in the history and architecture and religious beliefs of Muslims can visit the buildings from the inside. Today for a group of 20 people from all over the world!

As I was talking to my mom on a video call while she was walking a block around the neighborhood she showed me this! In Amersfoort! Netherlands!

*Visit Palestine program* (centered around the Bethlehem and Jerusalem area plus a day to the Galilee)with licensed tour guides. 1400 dollar (not including flight - you book and travel by yourself) small groups. Focus on history, heritage, nature, political reality, food and connection.

A tour in #bethlehem to meet inspiring #Palestinian #artists and #artisans including a music instrument maker who makes the 'ud and qanun, a Palestinian woman with muscular dystrophy who produces art calendars and a very enthusiastic #Arak distiller
Saturday 1 February

We needed twenty people holding hands to circle around the 5000 year old olive tree in Al Walaja, the oldest olive tree in Palestine!

I am organizing a visit to the #palestinian #heritage museum in #jerusalem as well as a visit to the American Colony hotel next door. You can join on Tuesday 4 February.