Tamara Ben-Halim is a co-founder, trustee, and former director of Makan, a Palestinian-led nonprofit based in the UK that works to strengthen voices for Palestinian rights through educational and capacity-building programs. She also co-founded Cycling4Gaza, an initiative that has raised over $1.2 million for vulnerable Palestinian communities in Gaza since 2009. She holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and an MA in Modern European Languages from the University of Edinburgh.
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Critical connections and interdependence are key for any liberation movement. Aline Batarseh of Visualizing Palestine and Tamara Ben-Halim of Makan join host Yara Hawari to explore how the work of their organizations intersects with that of Al-Shabaka, and how we can collectively build stronger communities in the struggle for justice, freedom, and equality.
With so much to tackle in the struggle for Palestinian rights, some question why time and energy should be invested in developing the Palestinian narrative and discourse. Al-Shabaka analyst Amjad Iraqi argues that a unified narrative and discourse is essential to the struggle’s success and outlines its key elements and strategic potential.
Why is a collective narrative important to the Palestinian liberation struggle? What challenges do the Palestinian people face in promoting their narrative, and who has legitimacy to promulgate it?
