Diaspora: Is the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture). Focusing on peoples' Diaspora, it means the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland or people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location, or people settled far from their ancestral homelands.Focusing on the Palestinian Diaspora in the Arab Gulf, we can find out websites several important facts about them from the following websites.
This website has many important facts about the Palestinian community and their Diaspora that reached up to 5.2 million from the whole Palestinian population which is around 10.1 million. It also provides information about the reasons that forced huge numbers of Palestinians to flee away from their own homeland. One of the main reasons is the establishment of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) in 1948. Additionally, this website discussed clearly several other aspects such as waves of Palestinian displacement, and characteristics of the Palestinian Diaspora. This website also includes a lot of caricature and cartoons about the Palestinian cause and especially the issue of Palestinian refugees living all over the middle-east. The sarcasm in these cartoons helps communicate a lot of sensitive issues and ideas that couldn’t have been expressed by words and articles and would’ve been censored.
This website is devoted to a project run by Palestinian and American activists in California. This project is called “Al Awda” in Arabic; which means the return in English. It is about the Palestinian cause and specifically the Palestinians living outside Palestine that constitute the Palestinian Diaspora. It includes a lot of facts about Palestine’s history and the evidence of the Palestinians right in their land whether those who were forced to leave in 1948or in 1967. There is also a link that directs you on how you can donate for the cause and help the organization pursue their goals. It includes audios and videos about Palestine and the Palestinian refugees, and how they live in camps and what their conditions are.
This website is an entertaining Palestinian website. It includes a lot of fun activities and links. There are several sections in the website: Music, movies, jokes, celebrity pictures, TV series, news local and international, etc. There is also a section for chatting in which Palestinians living all over the world can chat and exchange ideas and get to know each other.
Whenever you click on this link, it will take you to particular page on a website. This page is actually from an online book. It talks about the Palestinian Diaspora in Arab Gulf region from 1990 until 1995, and how they have been suffering since 30 years ago. Most of the pedestrian who left to the Gulf countries were professionals, physicians, engineers and teachers who become urban lower class after their immigrant. This is because of the lower class jobs they acquired in the Gulf region such as build port, rail and residential facilities. However, with the existence of the oil in the Gulf countries, Palestinian citizens became much better and they established themselves by creating their own business.
This website carries an important topic about Palestinians and their rights to be treated and recognized as a part of the community they live in because they have been suffering because of the Israeli occupation. This occupation which forced them to flee from their own beloved country, Palestine.
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Rina
I actually checked the websites you posted ,, I did not think that a Palestinian website will be interesting. I had a stereotypical view on the Palestinian websites, but actually "Jsor"
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