Podcasts about palestine museum

18/03/2025 Join Saad Ahmed for Tuesday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: 'Frenemies: struggle of toxic ties and Climate of Conflict: The environmental fallout of war' Frenemies: struggle of toxic ties Social media often presents an unrealistic image of friendship, making people feel inadequate or isolated. True friendships embrace imperfections and influence our thoughts, actions, and happiness. Join us as we discuss the power of social circles and explore how to be a compassionate, trustworthy friend.  Climate of Conflict: The environmental fallout of war War doesn't just take lives—it devastates the environment, poisoning water, destroying forests, and leaving the land uninhabitable. From Gaza's bombed-out landscapes to desertification in the Sahel, conflict accelerates climate change and causes long-term ecological destruction. Join us as we discuss the hidden environmental costs of war, and how faith and ethics shape our responsibility to protect the planet. Guests : Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestinian scientist and author, founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University). Doug Weir (undertaking research and advocacy on the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts and military activities since 2005). Producers : Rana Dua Dilawar and Zohra Mobashir

Highlights from 2024: Solidarity and Resistance3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nation – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.//Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh//Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh speaks about ecocide, resistance and the links between Palestine and so-called Australia. Professor Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian environmental scientist and author who has written several books including Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine. He is also the founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History(PMNH), as well as the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS), founded in partnership with his wife Jessie Chang in 2014. This is a conversation from May 2024.//Michelle Fahy//We revisit the work of Independant journalist Michelle Fahy, who spoke to Thursday breakfast host Priya Kunjan about Australia's place in the global supply chain of Lockheed Martin's F-35 combat aircraft, which the Israeli military has been using to wreak widespread destruction across Gaza. Michelle has been investigating militarism and the arms trade since 2009, and recently reported that Lockheed Martin has deleted website details about its operations in Australia. You can read and support Michelle's work by subscribing to her substack, Undue Influence.//Teachers for Palestine: Bill Abrahams//We hear an interview from Thursday breakfast host inez winters and Bill Abrahams who discuses the resource Teaching for Palestine: Challenging Anzac Day and australia's historical and ongoing repression of Palestinians, how offical remembrance obscures the realities of war and promotes imperialism and militarisation, and the role of teachers and school staff in dismantling the myths set up by offical remembrance.//Prison to deportation pipeline: Sanmati Verma//Legal Director at Human Rights Law Centre Sanmati Verma who joined Priya earlier in 2024 to break down the violence of mandatory visa cancellation and the different experiences of non-citizens incarcerated in so-called Australia.Sanmati Verma and Dr Claire Loughnan from the University of Melbourne explored these issues in a recent report on the Prison to Deportation Pipeline, which found that there has been a tenfold increase in visa cancellations on 'character' grounds since 2014, leading to a significant rise in people held in immigration detention for this reason. You can read the report at Human Rights Law Centre's website.//Yoorrook: Professor Maggie Walter//Yoorrook for Justice is a truth telling commission that documents past and present injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria. The commission has seen thousands of people speak truth in court and on Country. The final interview features Palawa woman and Yoorrook Commissioner and Professor Maggie Walter. Maggie Walter has authored six books and over 100 journal articles in the fields of Indigenous sociology and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Today, Maggie speaks to us about the importance of data sovereignty for First Nations justice and gives insight into Closing the Gap data released last week, along with updates on Yoorrook for Justice during the last week of submissions in 2024.//

With the UN reporting on acts of genocide in Gaza and the ongoing violent colonisation of multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic Palestine continuing, a global understanding and response to the situation is vital.  Eight million of the 15 million Palestinians are refugees or displaced peoples, excluded from their historical homeland by Zionist leaders whose actions indicate the desire for an ethnically cleansed state. Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh joins the podcast and explains that despite the popular naming of the conflict as incredibly complex, the model is simply settler colonialism, the same motivation and mechanisms experienced by the Indigenous people of Australia. Professor Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientist and author, founder and Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University. The Rev'd Dr Greg Jenks joins Dom and Sue in this important truth-telling conversation, listening and reflecting on some of the flawed narratives that dominate this conversation in the Church and the lack of political will to work for a just peace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nasser presents a longform conversation with Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian scientist, researcher, teacher, author, founder and director of Palestine Museum of Natural History and Humankind, and Lecturer at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability of Behtlehem University.They discuss Prof. Qumsiyeh's Nakba story, his life in Bethlehem, his experience and knowledge of the violence and environmental impacts (ecocide) of the israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, effects of zionism and settler colonialism on the environment, the dis/connection to land, and the lessons learnt. More information on Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh's work via qumsiyeh.org.Free Palestine Melbourne rally, State Library Victoria, Sundays 12pm.Updated info on upcoming events and actions via Free Palestine Melbourne Instagram.Daily broadcast updates via Let's Talk Palestine 

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// First up today we will hear an excerpt from a conversation between Tina McPhee, Philip Jacka and Phillip Jenkins for the series Our Voices Unlocked. Our Voices Unlocked features guests with lived experience of incarceration and a rotating series of hosts from the Justice Reform Initiative. The following conversation unpacks mutual aid, how this might look for formerly incarcerated people who collectivise, and how meeting our own survival needs can transform people's lives. If you'd like to hear more about the work that Justice Reform Initiative do, you can head to www.justicereforminitiative.org.au.// Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh is Palestinian environmental scientist and author. He is the founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History(PMNH), as well as the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS), founded in partnership with his wife Jessie Chang in 2014. Professor Qumsiyeh has written several books including Popular Resistance in Palestine, and today he joins us to speak about ecocide, resistance and links between Palestine and so-called Australia. You can attend Proffessor Qumsiyeh's talk "From Nakba to Genocide, A History of Human & Environmental Injustice" on Monday 13 May, 6pm at Costa Hall 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong VIC 3220. This event is presented by Free Palestine Geelong, NTEU4P Naarm/Contingent Group and the Deakin NTEU Palestine Solidarity Group. Register here.//  Friends of the Earth Australia's Offshore Fossil Gas Campaigner Jeff Waters joins us to discuss serious concerns about plans by fossil fuel industry heavyweight Esso's plans to construct a multi-storey toxic waste dump in the middle of a uniquely biodiverse wetlands area at Corner Inlet on Victoria's Gippsland Coast. Esso intends to dump multiple decommissioned "topsides" from oil and gas platforms at the site, which will release a multitude of hazardous materials at the site.// Nick Chesterfield, human rights, civil resistance and environmental justice journalist and member of MEAA for Palestine, joins us to provide updates and critical analysis of domestic and international mainstream media's coverage of israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. This conversation happens in the wake of the zionist entity's decision to shut down Al Jazeera offices in occupied Palestine prior to its lethal escalation of aerial bombardment in preparation for a military ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. It also follows this week's galling announcement of the New York Times as the Pulitzer prize winner for international reporting in 2024 "for its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas' lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel's intelligence failures and the Israeli military's sweeping, deadly response in Gaza.//

How do museums act as places of discovery, dialogue, and healing? These spaces engage with critical, often complex, issues important to the communities they serve. This includes, for some, the current war between Israel and Hamas, and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza. This week and next, we're going to bring you to two museums to explore that question, and speak with Dr. Macushla Robinson about the power of art and curation. Next week, we'll spend time at the Museum of Jewish Civilization at the University of Hartford, a teaching museum working to tell the stories of Jewish people and how they lived. This hour, we take a tour of Palestine Museum US in Woodbridge. It's the first museum in the country centering Palestinian arts and culture, with a mission of humanizing Palestinian people. Hear from the museum's founder and executive director, Faisal Saleh. "Art speaks to the heart, politics speak to the mind," says Saleh. "You don't need to translate anything, because it's a universal language of the art." What role do museums play in your community? GUESTS: Dr. Macushla Robinson: Assistant Professor in Residence, University of Connecticut; Director, Contemporary Art Galleries at the University of Connecticut Faisal Saleh: Founder and Executive Director, Palestine Museum US Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arts Respond with Lucy Gellman: Faisal Saleh, Director and Founder of the Palestine Museum U.S. by WNHH Community Radio

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Faisal Saleh, the Director and Founder of Palestine Museum US, speaks about the Museum's Collateral Event Exhibition at The 59th Venice Biennale, "From Palestine With Art." For more information on "From Palestine With Art": https://www.ctinsider.com/entertainment/article/CT-Palestine-Museum-Venice-Biennale-17067349.php https://www.palestinemuseum.us/books/from-palestine-with-art-the-book-of-the-venice-biennale-collateral-exhibition For more on Palestine Museum US: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/ https://www.facebook.com/PalestineMuseum.US/ https://www.instagram.com/palestinemuseum.us/ https://twitter.com/palmuseumus?lang=en

In this episode Faisal Saleh - founder and director of the Palestine Museum US - and Nancy Nesvet - curator of the 'From Palestine with Art' exhibition at the Venice Biennale - tell us about their amazing work. Palestine Museum US was founded by Palestinian American Faisal Saleh who, after over 40 years of entrepreneurial work, tuned his attention to managing the most ambitious Palestinian media project in the United States. Located in Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA, the museum opened its doors on April 22, 2018. Recently, through the idea of Preserving Palestinian history & culture telling the Palestinian story through the arts, they were able to exhibit Palestinian works at the Venice Biennale. https://www.palestinemuseum.us/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/jerusalemunplugged. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Mike Merli in conversation with Faisal Saleh, Chairman and Founder of Palestine Museum US, located in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Faisal discusses the Israeli Occupation Forces' recent murder of well-known Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; the 74th Anniversary of the Nakba; and the Museum's recent exhibition at the Venice Biennale. For more information on Palestine Museum US: www.palestinemuseum.us https://www.facebook.com/PalestineMuseum.US/ https://www.instagram.com/palestinemuseum.us/

Jess & Jamal discuss the timing of Israel's meeting with top diplomats from four Arab countries (Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, and Morocco) and the United States. Was this just another photo op, or are Arabs helping Israel whitewash its Apartheid? Faisal Saleh, founder of the Palestine Museum in Woodbridge, CT talks about the museum's latest exhibition in Venice, Italy: “From Palestine with Art,” which will be presented at the 59th International Art Exhibition- La Biennale di Venezia starting April 2, 2022. For more information: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/biennale-press-release

The Palestine Museum founder, Faisal Saleh, shares his vision of researching and preserving Palestinian history, culture, and art. To learn more: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/ Virtual online auction: https://pmu.betterworld.org/auctions/ihs-pmus-auction Jess & Jamal examine US foreign aid, as the Biden administration contemplated imposing new conditions on aid to Egypt due to human rights abuses, while US Congress progressives renewed effort to prohibit the delivery of US-made bombs to Israel due to its targeting of civilians in Gaza.

In 2019 Mohammad Najajrah and Mazin Qumsiyeh from the Palestine Museum of Natural History, at the University of Bethlehem, carried out the first ever study of ladybirds in the West Bank. They found 35 species. In this episode, I talked to them about their work, how the Israeli occupation is affecting nature and the environment in Palestine, how ladybirds are viewed in Palestinian culture and more.  You can read the study here: https://www.palestinenature.org/fr/research/Najajrahet-al-2019.pdf  https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol23-1/an-environmental-nakba-the-palestinian-environment-under-israeli-colonization/ - Mazin's article on the environmental effects of Israeli policies.  https://smujo.id/biodiv/article/view/3587 - Article about birds in Gaza by Abdel Fattah Abd Rabou.  https://www.dw.com/en/70-years-of-nakba-the-ongoing-struggle-of-palestinian-refugees/a-43798899 - More about the Nakba and interviews with survivors.   View the museum's website here: https://www.palestinenature.org  Follow the museum on Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH/ Donate to the museum  here: https://www.palestinenature.org/donations/ Buy Mazin's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mazin-B-Qumsiyeh/e/B001KMCXP2/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1  Buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/hwabpodcast Follow me on twitter: @HWABpodcast or Instagram @365.ladybird  Like my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenwingsandbloodlust Get redirected to the right podcast app here: https://podfollow.com/hidden-wings-and-bloodlust   

One of the most challenging topics in interfaith settings is Israel/Palestine. How do we begin to address this subject, create space for meaningful dialogue, and take steps towards action? How can those outside of Palestine and Israel better inform ourselves? What is our role? We explore some of these questions, acknowledging the difficulty of even agreeing on a shared view of history, language, and responsibilities. Featuring Faisal Saleh, founder of the Palestine Museum US, and Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine. Learn more about: Palestine Museum https://www.palestinemuseum.us/ Tikkun https://www.tikkun.org/

Host Mike Merli in conversation with Faisal Saleh, founder of Palestine Museum US, in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Faisal speaks about Israel's escalating violence against the Palestinian people; the history and legacy of the Nakba; the vital mission and work of Palestine Museum US; and Palestine Art Week, running now until May 21st. For more on the Palestine Museum US, and Palestine Art Week: www.palestinemuseum.us https://www.facebook.com/PalestineMuseum.US/ https://www.instagram.com/palestinemuseum.us/ https://twitter.com/palmuseumus

This weeks guest is Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, a founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at the Bethlehem University.  Professor Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke, and Yale Universities. He and his wife returned to Palestine in 2008 starting a number of institutions and projects such as a clinical genetics laboratory that serves cancer and other patients. Qumsiyeh has published over 140 scientific papers on topics ranging from cultural heritage to biodiversity to cancer. His many published books include “Bats of Egypt”, "Mammals of the Holy Land", "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle" and "Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment". Mazin's website is http://qumsiyeh.org

On a sunny day in January 2021 we visit the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem. We speak to the founder Mazin Qumsieh and his wife Jessie Chang and we take a tour around the ethnography museum and the garden. This is where the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity is teaching children AND adults about the rich flora and fauna of Palestine. Palestine is located between Europe, Asia and Africa with an area of 27000 km2 in the western part of the Fertile Crescent where humans first developed agriculture. The unique geography and geology gave Palestine more biological diversity than some countries ten times its size.The museum has a section with fossils and stuffed animals. There are also several animals that are being rehabilitated before they are released back into the wild. The museum demonstrates methods for cultivation, composting, recycling and upcycling. Listen to this episode to learn more about Palestine's biodiversity and the Natural Museum of History and visit the website to read more and see the photos of the visit! https://storiesfrompalestine.info/2021/01/16/palestine-museum-natural-history/If you want to support the podcast with a donation please go to https://ko-fi.com/storiesfrompalestine I REALLY appreciate it!Website: https://www.storiesfrompalestine.info Facebook: Stories from PalestineInstagram: Stories from Palestine Youtube: Stories from PalestineAll the social media links in one place on: https://podspout.app/storiesfrompalestine

We spend the hour with director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History, scientist, author and organizer, Mazin Qumsiyeh.

Sama Alshaibi’s practice examines the mechanisms displacement and fragmentation in the aftermath of war and exile. Her photographs, videos and immersive installations features the body, often her own, as either a gendered site or a geographic device, resisting oppressive political and social conditions. Alshaibi’s monograph, Sama Alshaibi: Sand Rushes In (New York: Aperture, 2015) presents her Silsila series, which probes the human dimensions of migration, borders, and environmental demise.Alshaibi has been featured in several prominent biennials including the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (Italy), the 13th Cairo International Biennale (Egypt, 2019), the 2017 Honolulu Biennial (Hawaii), the 2016 Qalandia International Biennial (Haifa), and FotoFest Biennial, Houston (2014). Alshaibi's recently held solo exhibitions at Ayyam Gallery (Dubai, 2019) and at Artpace, where she was participated as the National Artist in Residence (San Antonio, 2019). Alshaibi received the 2019 Project Development Award from the Center (Santa Fe), 2018 Artist Grant from the Arizona Commission on The Arts, and the 2017 Visual Arts Grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (Beirut). Alshaibi was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in 2014-2015 as part of a year long residency at the Palestine Museum in Ramallah, where she developed an education program while conducting independent research.Alshaibi has exhibited her work in over 20 national and international solo exhibitions including Artpace, Texas (2019), Ayyam Gallery (2019), NYU Abu Dhabi (2019), the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, NY (2017), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (2016); Ayyam Gallery, Dubai (2015); Ayyam Gallery, London (2015); Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2011) and Selma Feriani Gallery, London (2010). Her over 150 group exhibitions include Pen + Brush Gallery (NYC, 2019), American University Museum (Washington D.C., 2018), 2018 Breda Photo Festival (Netherlands), Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona (2017); Marta Herford Museum of Art, Germany (2017), CCS Bard Hessel Museum and Galleries, New York (2017); Museum De Wieger, The Netherlands (2017); Palais De La Culture Constantine, Algeria (2015); Pirineos Sur Festival, Spain (2015); Arab American National Museum, Michigan (2015); Abu Dhabi Festival (2015); Photo Shanghai (2014); Venice Art Gallery, Los Angeles (2013); University of Southampton (2013); Edge of Arabia, London (2012); HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna (2012); Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris (2012); Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah (2012); and Headlands Center for the Arts, California (2011). She has also exhibited at the Bronx Museum in NYC, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO. Her over 40 time-based works (video art and films) have screened in numerous film festivals internationally, including Mapping Subjectivity, MoMA (NYC), 24th Instants Video Festival (Mexico and France), Madrid Palestine Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece) and DOKUFEST (Kosovo). Her art residencies include Artpace International Artist Residency (San Antonio), Darat al Funun (Amman), A.M. Qattan Foundation (Ramallah) and Lightwork (NY).Alshaibi's works have been collected by public institutions internationally, including the Center for Creative Photography (Tuscon), the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell (NY), The Houston Museum of Art (Texas), Nadour (Germany), the Barjeel Collection (Sharjah), En Foco (NYC), and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Tunis (Tunisia). She has been featured in Photo District News, L’Oile de la Photographie, The Washington Post, Lensculture, NY Times, Ibraaz, Bluin Artinfo, Contact Sheet, Contemporary Practices, Harpar’s Bazaar, The Guardian, CNN, Huffington Post and Hysteria.Born in Basra to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother, Sama Alshaibi is based in the United States where she is Professor of Photography, Video and Imaging at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Alshaibi holds a BA in Photography from Columbia College and an MFA in Photography, Video, and Media Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Alshaibi is represented by Ayyam Gallery. http://www.samaalshaibi.com/http://www.ayyamgallery.com/artists/sama-alshaibihttps://crystalbridges.org/exhibitions/state-of-the-art-2/https://www.artsy.net/artwork/sama-alshaibi-the-cessationhttps://www.artpace.org/works/iair/iair_spring_2019/until-total-liberationhttps://www.photographersofcolor.org/https://twitter.com/photogsofcolorhttps://www.instagram.com/photogsofcolor/https://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/art/

Palestinians have developed a number of creative, non-violent ways to challenge the brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine. One of the more widely known forms of non-violent resistance is the BDS (Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions) movement that was started in 2005 by about 150 Palestinian civil groups and joined by activists all around the world. When we spent a month in Palestine, based in Bethlehem, this past summer with the Holy Land Trust, one very innovative form of non-violent resistance came to our attention. We met Dr. Mazin & Jessie Qumsiyeh, who founded the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability and the Palestine Museum of Natural History that is associated with Bethlehem University. This 14 minute video is a talk by Dr. Qumsiyeh, given at the meeting of the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) on Dec. 4, 2017. The meeting was held at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo. Professor Qumsiyeh’s paper dealt with challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the 21st century with globalized systems. He highlighted the example of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University in areas of research, education, and environmental conservation. As the only Palestinian speaker at this conference, Prof. Qumsiyeh took the opportunity to also highlight the issues of Israeli colonial policies that effect sustainability in Palestine.

On a month long trip to Palestine and Israel, I was very fortunate to meet Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian, who came back to Bethlehem from a career in the US at Yale and Duke Universities, teaching and researching in the field of genetics. He now teaches and does research at Bethlehem and BerZeit Universities in Palestione. He is the director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Institute for Biodiversity Research. This 6 minute video about Dr. Qumsiyeh by Existence Is Resistanc pays honor to a trully remarkable individual.

Join us as we share audio from Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh’s talk “From Palestine to New Mexico: Human Rights and Environmental Justice”, at Nahalot Shalom, which is a spiritual and cultural center for Jewish Renewal in the Southwest. Dr. Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientist, author, expert in conflict resolution, a professor at Bethlehem University and is the Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History.