Circus gorup

Suffer and Creativity .

Two months and Half me and my Freind Ibrahim started three years project in lebanon . the Project name is ( Circuna -Our Circus) . the idea is to train 15 Palestinain refugees youth ( stregthning and focusing on the local talents ) ,we toured all the palestinian refugee camps looking for people have the passion to be artists . we have now amazing group , they are beyound our expactations , they are so apssionate .

For the fisrt time the palestinian christian from Dbyeih camp , met with Muslim Palestinian refugges from many diffrent camp .Dbyeih camp has been neglected for many years by P.L.O beacuse of political reasons . its rare to find palestinians know about Dbeyeih camp , about 2500 christian palestinian refugges are living in tht camp and its only the chirsitian camp in lebanon .

one of the greates points ofthe project is that , there are 5 women wants to be circus artists , they want to be on the stage .

the project is funded by the Goverment of Sweden , SIDA ( The swedish international development agency )
for three years the group will get , pedagog , circus and admistrative training .

the teachers ( trainners ) they come every month for 7 to 10 days to lebanon from Sweden . they set diffrent kinds of trainings , Acrobte , jugling , and clowning .starting from february 2008 , the group will get modern dance and physical theater training plus the above mentioned trainings .

a local teacher Called Sharif Abed AL NOur is training the group every saturday .
In April 2008 , the group will be on the satge officially for the first time . they will tour country for 7 days .

in the last two years of the project , the group will be able to teach and preform
in the last year of the project , they will get admistrative training beacuse they will be independent group acording to the plan. to be able to manage it self and taking a step forward some where to change the human suffer of some body into human creativity as it happened to them .

We are working in beirut for more information:
tele:03560036
beirut/al4sanaye3- mofti allaiah street- baadarani bild- 4th floor.
www.circuna.org ( the website will be issued in the tenth of december 2007)

Shaker al Absi or The lebanese army Win

The formula is :

Shaker Al Absi appears suddenly in naher al bared camp.
The lebanese army attack the camp to arrest Shaker al absi .
The lebanese army determinat the battle and Shaker al Absi disappeared again.

So how come the lebanese army celeberate and Shaker al absi is free, and 44000 people are homeless. why they didn't celeberate when the lebanese resistant beat the israelians in the last war against lebanon?

Congratulation michale suliman , you will be the presidant in lebanon.

Two Razans


Razan Ghazawi

Razan abdel haque


My destiny to meet two Razans in two following bromana summer camp, First Razan and she is arabian syrian with palestinian roots, she was one of my best friends, we spent beautifull time in lebanon and she is studying in lebanon, and she is going to continue her studying in USA to come back a strong active women in her society, The most important thing that she helps me in changing my believs towards the Arab world and women in our arab world she is amazing girl, i will miss her .

Razan Abd al haque and she is jordanian with palestinian roots too , she is amazing active girl in her society especiall with her program in jabal al natheef with children and the society , i met her in bromana summer camp, she is Arabian 100%. No words to say about her just i miss her and i believe that i will meet her again.

I'm writing about them because really i will miss them, because they effect on me in many directions especially my thoughts, god bless you both and thank you for the fantastice time my friends , i would like them to know each other .

Cheers my friend

Our next Generation

she likes to play chello but she can't

palestinian smileThe new resister
Yacine my best friend from france he insist to play Music like this
My workshope with Children

Cigarettes Map of Palestine

Like this we see our land, Palestine . This photo of me was taken by my friend razan.

45 DAYS

I didn't expect that i will live in the north for 45 days to work with a humanitarian organization and that was my hope.
I saw a reversed image than i saw in in July 2006, i worked with Lebanese refugees came from their village to hid in the camps now i saw Palestinian refugees escaped to hid in another refugees camp.. what's the hell i saw?
25000 people from naher al bared + 20000 the initial people of al badawi camp living in area made for 20000 people!! everybody imagine the situation.. so...no comment.

Racist people took the space now to show their racism toward others especially Palestinians now they are the victims after the Syrians before and the Syrians still .

i faced many problem in the bus with Lebanese civilian tried to attack me because I'm Palestinian, one of them he is 45 years old and he didn't shy to attack me and to say Racist words like we will kill you Palestinians.

I have a message from the people of naher al bared that live in al badawi camp and it is:
We know that naher al bared is completely destroyed now, but we will return until if we want to live in tents again, we will rebuild our homes, we want to return back for the place that we will return from it to Palestine.

The dignity of 11 Lebanese army more important than the dignity of 44 thousand Palestinian refugees left their homes and lost their children and parents.

AS we said" destroy our homes we don't care, because we know that we have a god"

No comment

It's the 10th days since i cam to albadawi camp, i can't describe the situation i don't know a word meaningfull more than disaster, Al Badawi camp include only 20000 people and Naher al bared people now are about 30000 thousand people , so there are 500000 people in Al badawi camp.
From where can i start... actually i don't know, from the diseases that start spread between the people who live in the schools under a bad situation of healthy inviroments? The people who are runing from place to place to find somethings to eat or to register there names to get foods or breads? The people that i saw in the midnighg with there children looking for a place to sleep?
No body in the world accept to his self this situation.
I'm working in al badawi camp, i'm teaching music for the al bared's children, when i asked them to play i feel that i'm in war they play the sounds of bombs, shouting, playing violently.

In Al badwi camp there is a big list for the civillians that killed in al bared camps and till now they are 20 civillians not like what the medias told.

so the question is where we are going?

Demonstation In Al Rashidieh Camp





25/5/2007 A crowded demonstration starting off at al Rashidieah Camp to joint laiability with our people and famillies in Naher al bared Cam, and it end 100 m far from the army check point and the pople yelling words against what the army doing in the camp asking for a political soultion to avoid civillians inside the camp.
and about 20 famillies from Naher al bared came today morning to the camp, and they are now distibuted to houses, and we can't imagine the cooperation iside the camp to provid and support these famillies.

CHECKPOINTS

Everybody know that there is a checkpoint in every gate of each camp, yesterday after i came back from my friend's house at night, i stopped in the checkpoint of the lebanese army in my camp, I face a new soldier , i didn't see him in the checkpoint before, he asked me to comedown from my care by unrespectfull way, he asked me to open my car's box, then he said " you are the next inshallah" awww... then my face got red and i got angry and i told him ok we are the next but you will shoot ur self to escape from the battle, then i drive my car back home, and i'm still thinking... why they or some of them hate us? what did we do? did the armies member who bomb to naher al bared thinking like him?
The answer maybe i will get it later.

WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP

We all surprised, fighting stopped sudenly, and the civillians who can leave.. left the camp and others stayed there. briefly allah yoster men el next step.
What i heared and i'm living in a camp which, and heared from a securital source that the palestinians will enter the fight now, and it will be used as a cover for what the lebanese army did against everybody( fateh al islam and civillians), now the struggel will move inside the camp, if not today tomorrow, if not tomorrow later... The army realized that he can't do anything without palestinians help... but if that true and i hope it's not, they should tell al the civillians to leave the camp, and the last statistics said that there are more than 400 terrorists inside the camp.
Not only this ,but also some palestinian orgainzation will not keep silent about this situation if the army renew the bombin.
The seen here, people donate by their clothes, money and foods to send them for the double refugees.
finally i want to say allah yostor.

I LOVE YOU PASSIONATLY

I LOVE YOU PASSIONATLY
I love you passionately
Not because you are children, but because u are human
I love you passionately
Not because you are exiled, but because you are human
I love you passionately
Not because you are Palestinian, but because you are human
I love you passionately
Not because you are human; but because you are alive
I love you passionately
Not because you are young, but because you grow
I love you passionately
Not because u are silent, but because you struggle
I love you passionately
Not because you struggle, because you are able to laugh
I love you passionately
Not because you laugh, but because you cry
And I will continue to love you passionately
Not because you cry, but because you glow
I love you passionately
Not because you ….. But because you …..
I love you passionately
Yes passionately
Passionately

By: N . Gandour
May 2005

رسالة طفل من مخيم نهر البارد


قاسم
لا فتح ولافتح الاسلام بل اطفال المخيمات
محاولة ، كتبها صديق هذا الصباح وكان يبكي انقلها كما هي : يعبثون بجسدي يا أبي ليل نهار . يعبثون بقلبي يا أبي كدمية جديدة بيد الصغير . لم تدخل سيارة الإسعاف بوابة المخيم . لم تنقل قلباً صغيراً مسفوحاً أمام الدار . تعبر السيارات على الاجساد لتعيد تشكيل التراب مرة اخرى . بقايا قلوب صغيرة ورمل المخيم ، انهم يعبثون بي يا أبي . يا الله اعرف انك خلقت الانسان من تراب وانك لم تخلقه من دم الاطفال

Email from My friend

Daer Ashraft
i hope ya r doing good .
i have some news tht u can write about it .
i get this new from tripoli and Bedawi camp

from bedawi camp ,the youth are walking again towards naher el bared camp trying to break down the army bolockade they are carrying with them food water and mediaction .
but it seems very difficult to reach their goal and to get into the borders of the camp , tht because TYARE EL MOSTAKBLA guys are armored they are shooting at them .
TYARE AL MOSTAKBLE GUYS , are shooting at the ambulances tht going in the direction of Naher el bared CAMP these ambulances are carrying water , mediactio, , food and when it go out of the camp it will move dead and injuried people .

Tyare a mostakbale guys at Minyeh in tripoli , they set up check points and they arresting according to the ID , they are not arrestiong only palestinian men but also girls and women

inside Naher El bARED , the army shooting with tanks and heavy weapon randomly , one woman said , i have three dead civilian people and one injuried infront of my house door , no one is able to move them
the people taking there hosues rooms as shellters 60 to 80 PERSONS most ofthem children and women in the same room . no drink water since 3 DAYS
the army shooted with heavy weapon underground shellter ,people says we have no news about them if they are still alife or dead , to notice tht ; in tht shellter there is at least 100 people

Stop Bombing Nahr El Bared NOW!!!

.
" Naher al bared " is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon, this camp is subjected to violent bombing from the Lebanese army in an attempt to vanish the a terrorist movement called " Fateh al Islam" which is Al- Qaieda ally in the region.
i just call my friend in the camp " Naher al bared", an he told me the Lebanese army is bombing the camp randomly, many houses fall down on their owners, they bombed clinics, and some houses for " Fateh al Islam".

Ahmad, a friend of mine, living in the camp, told me that they don't have water now, nor bread, nor hospitals. They are starting to feel hungry, they can't take the injuries outside the camp nor the dead, mostly civilians.
There are no reasons to bomb all of the camp, and we should not. The attacks on the Lebanese army happened
yesterday outside the camp, and they discovered those terrorists inside a house in Tripoli.
The Palestinians inside the camp offered the Lebanese government help to cooperate with them to fight this terrorist movement but the government rejected the offer.

So what is the reason for these bombings The camp is facing a disaster if they don't stop bombing NOW!!

dialog between me and my friend live in verdun

My friend x and she lives in verdun, i remembered her when i heard about the explosion there, i send her sms she didnt reply because as usuall all the telephone stopped from sending and recieving calls , then i catch her online, and thanks god she was ok , but she said" AShraf how can u do that as a palestinian" , oh my god my friend said that, when i told her everything about the situation and that fateh al islam are not palestiniane and they are more than 60 Saudi, 20 Algerian, 10 Jordanian, 30 Afghani, 12 palestinian, she surprised and she said : lebanese didn't know that, then i think and i hope she changed her mind, but what make me worried if all the lebanese thinking like that.

We are sorry for what happened in the beautifull lebanon.

You should know

The 17 members who were killed yesterday that belong to Fateh al islam : 10 lebanese and 4 syrians and 3 suadian, and they were outside the camp, so while they still bombing the camp?

where are you Palestenian leaders

where are you Palestenian leaders..
what are you doing..
are you happy with your coffe infront of your fucking 42" plazma TV..
are you happy with your wonderfull N95 mobile calling the channels to say that you are against that..
so what ..

Its our turn palestenians

Its our turn palestenian to be a part of the durty play that arabs with the americans are playing in the lebanese stadume.. but no 10000000 no we r not the wood for ur fire what ever you are ..

Naher el bared is not bared any more

in fact..
what is happening there is only a play and civilians are always the victimes ..
look at your self ( lebanese outhuroties) , ask your self : from where these groups inter your country, who is funding them and why in naher el bared..
for sure your leaders know but they are not able to do any thing unless killing ennocent people .
where was your tanks during last summer.. but if any one wants to have the answer he can go back to Marj eyoon..
im not deffending fath el islam.. for me and for all palestenians, they are not fateh and they dont know any thing about islam..
but we are talking about 54000 people who are living under the lebanese army bombing since 20/05/2006..
so what..
we are asking all of you .. lebanese.. arabs..muslims..christians ..people.. WE AS PALESTENIANS WHAT SHOULD WE DO .. WHERE WE CAN GO.. WE ARE OUT OUR HOME LAND , WE ARE FACING ISRAELIAN TANKS EVERY MOMENT.. BUT WE WERE NOT EXSPECTING THE FRIENDS FIRE IN THE COUNTRY THAT WE WERE ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE THAT ITS OUR SECOND HOME ...
WHAT DO YOU WANT..
STOP THAT..
there is 1000 ways to remove this fucking movement, dont use the easiest one and the usless..
please dont do that..

Stop this silly game

Fateh al islam is a terrorist movement, and it's danger for both lebanese and palestinian, so stop acting like that.i got many calls from my friends inside the camp, and they are live in a bad situations, and the lebanese army didn't seperate between civillinas and the military posotions, there are many civillinas victims inside the cam.
Ahmad, ziad , manal , da3d, ibrahim , ibrahim hassan, hatem , wessam all of them my firiends more and more... so Stop this silly game.
You are lebanon not israel, we are going to be angry.. so fight fateh al islam and they are only 150 members it's don't need your bombs, wake upppppppppppp.

ما الذي ينتظرنا؟

يشكل اللاجئون الفلسطينيون في لبنان حوالي 11٪ من مجموع سكان لبنان ، ووفقاً لتقارير (الأونروا) وهي المنظمة الدولية المسؤولة عن رعاية شؤون اللاجئين الفلسطينيين، فإنه في عام 2004 يعيش في لبنان 396890 لاجئاً فلسطينياً يتوزعون على 12 مخيماً وهي: نهر البارد، البداوي، برج البراجنة، ضبية، مار الياس، عين الحلوة، الرشيدية، برج الشمالي، البص، شاتيلا، المية ومية.ويعاني الفلسطنيون في لبنان من مشاكل اقتصادية واجتماعية متعددة، فحالات العسر الشديد فيهم هي الأعلى في كل مجتمعات اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في المنطقة "وتطال 11091 أسرة، أي ما نسبته 11.68% من مجموع الفلسطينيين. وهم ممنوعون من العمل في لبنان بموجب القرار 289/1 لسنة 1982، وممنوعون من التملك بموجب قرار صادر عن مجلس الوزراء في 31/3/2001، في حين تكتظ مدارسهم بالتلاميذ ، وتتردى أوضاعهم الصحية باستمرار" وهم لا يحصلون على حقوقهم في التعليم والطبابة والعمل والضمان الصحي والاجتماعي والانتساب إلى النقابات.
تداعيات القرار 1559 على اللاجئين الفلسطينيين :
بقي الأمر على هذا المنوال حتى جاء القرار الأممي 1559 القاضي بنزع سلاح الفصائل الفلسطينية والذي كان من تداعياته ازدياد مخاوف الفلسطينيين في لبنان على مستقبلهم وما عزّز من هذه المخاوف : • انسحاب القوات السورية من لبنان، التي كانت تدير مباشرة الملف الفلسطيني في لبنان وتتحكم بتفاصيل العلاقة اللبنانية-الفلسطينية .• غياب مرجعية سياسية فلسطينية رسمية تمثّل الفلسطينيين حقيقة وتعبّر عن تطلعاتهم وهمومهم.• "عدم وجود تفاهم رسمي فلسطيني – لبناني على مجموعة من العناوين والمصالح الرئيسة والمشتركة. فاللجنة الوزارية اللبنانية التي كلفت عام 1991 للتحاور مع الفلسطينيين توقفت بعد فترة وجيزة عن ممارسة مهامها دون التوصل إلى نتيجة، في حين ظلّت هناك قضايا كثيرة عالقة.• ازدياد مستوى التدخل الدولي في لبنان، وانكشاف الواقع اللبناني بعد صدور القرار 1559 على التجاذبات الدولية بشكل أكبر من ذي قبل. وهو ما يمكن أن يدخل العاملين الفلسطيني واللبناني في تجاذبات شائكة.• وجود مصلحة إسرائيلية مباشرة عبّر عنها وزراء ومسؤولون في الحكومة “الإسرائيلية” تبيّن من خلالها النتائج الإيجابية الكبيرة، التي ينتظر الإسرائيليون تحقيقها نتيجة لتنفيذ القرار 1559، سواء لجهة انسحاب القوات السورية، أو جمع سلاح حزب الله والقوى الفلسطينية".

wonderfull

IT DESERVES OUR LIVES

Camps

If you don't live in lebanon, and i told you i'm from xxx Camp, first thing u will think Tents,poor people. Actually This image should be clear for all, in 1948 when our grands escaped from palestine toward lebanon They live in camps ( tents), but now We are live in houses and we have schools supported by UN with bad services.
If you are going to enter a certain Camp in lebanon you will face a checkpoint for the lebanese forces and if u are not lebanese or palestinian you will not enter the Camp accept if u have a permession from the special authoroties.
So if i'm not palestinian and i passed beside a camp and i saw the checkpoint i will afraid and i will not enter the camp and i will say that there are terrorists live inside So the first problem we face the checkpoint, That we should register daily to enter the camp.
what made me laugh when the soldier in the checkpoint said" hi Ashraf, plz give me ur id", What the hill he know that i'm living there ... So why he always asking to view my id? The answer : They are so smart and they have nothing to do.

We'll Return



59th years since the Nakbah , and we still believe that we'll Return. We don't want to live as a refugees in any place , our land is very beautifull and it deserves our lives.

It's Sham to live in an Arab country like lebanon with no civil rights.. but we are alive and working for our return.

We will return soon inshalla.