Female Chimeras

Amira Frijat

"Land would not fail those who work hard for it"

Amira is a citizen who grew up in the village of Al-Auja in Jericho, since her childhood she worked in agriculture, and it was her main source of livelihood for her and her children.

Fatima AbdulKarim

"I decided that I shouldn’t stay silent, I can’t stay silent"

Fatima has been silent for 5 years, She was suffering in silence, But today she is one of the fighters of this disease; Endometriosis disease!

Halimah Sarabta

"What does music therapy mean for a deaf girl?"

Halima, a young Palestinian woman from Bethlehem, who inherited the deafness from her mother, along with her four sisters, was mocked because she is deaf. Halima refused to get a cochlear implant, and preferred to be a deaf treating children with music!

Laura Theodory

" I became more aware of people’s different needs, I became stronger"

Laura is from Jerusalem, She holds MA in economics from Birzeit University, She has two identical twins. Her life changed when she found out that her children Kinan and Kayan are on the autism spectrum, Since then, The journey of autism began with Kinan and Kayan.

Amnah Al-Rimawi

" We want to talk about our right to peace and a life with dignity "

Amna al-Rimawi, born in the village of Beit Rima in Ramallah, when she was 17 years old, she worked in a biscuit factory, and felt the suffering of the workers, especially working women, that's why she began organizing labor gatherings. Amna is considered the first unionist in Palestine, and she is the one who founded the Labor Unity Bloc. She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, as a recognition of her work and struggle. Amna passed away just two months ago.

Fidaa Abuhamdiyah

"Food to me is my way of resistance to talk about Palestine"

She lived the details of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre and used food as a tool to tell the stories of Palestine. Learn about the story of Chef Fida Abuhamdiya, It has a lot of Sumac, Maqluba and Musakhan!

Anwar Shawamreh

"Never be a number, It’s time for women to know their true value"

Anwaar is 27 years old. She is from Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa village in Hebron. She studied Business Management, Since her childhood, Anwar has faced many difficulties. She wanted to improve her village and increase women's participation in public life.

Fedaa Hammed

" I wanted to put all my pain in a recipe to forget about it and be free of it"

Fedaa is 45 years old. She is from Silwad village in Ramallah. Fedaa grew up in a large family, She is the eldest among 7 sisters and 3 brothers. Since a very young age Fedaa had great responsibilities. Her husband's injury affected her greatly, but the biggest affect was when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, since then, she started her chocolate business "Thawq" to make her life tastes better.

Laila Khaddash

"If you’re healthy, you should thank god at every moment"

Laila is a mother to 4 kids, She used to work as a school principle and always wanted to be the perfect knight. in 2018 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and her life has changed since then. At first, Laila was shocked and lost the ability to think, but she decided that she must be strong and must be alive for her kids, and that what gave her the power to continue her life.

Bushra Alatrash

"When I turned 12, I wasn't allowed to ride the bike although I loved it"

Bushra is 33 years old, She has a master degree in Teaching methods,Specifically, teaching using drama and theatre skills. She's always loved Arabic, but she didn't want to become a teacher, her experience with theater was one of the most distinguishing things that affects her personality but was not an easy career path in Hebron’s society, she kept a long with her theatre career and what gave her strength was the thought of herself standing on stage and representing women's life and struggles in society.

Why Should we fight?

" We women, will no longer be relegated"

International women's day is a worldwide event that celebrates women’s achievements from the political to the social while calling for gender equality. It has been observed since the early 1900s and is now recognized each year on March 8. Women still fighting to achieve full gender equality. A gender pay gap persists across the globe and women are still not present in equal numbers in business or politics. Figures show that globally, women’s education, health and violence towards women is still worse than that of men.

Izdihar Syouri

"They used to think; a woman with no children, is like a dead woman"

Izdihar is 58 years old, She got married when she was 19 to the person she always dreamed of, but after years, She knew that she will not be able to have kids. At first Izdihar was afraid of losing her husband, and couldn't handle being a second wife after her husband got married again, so she managed to open a nursery to share her love to children and help herself to move on.

Heba Tebakhi

"Many people told me; “Are you crazy? Marrying a farmer?"

Heba is a lecturer at The Free University of Berlin, She is coming from a very conservative family from Hebron, for 19 years Heba has never lived with, talked to, nor befriended with other people outside the city of Hebron, but in 2004 her life changed after she lived in nunnery at Bethlehem University.

Nadeen Odeh

" I might be speaking on behalf of many girls who’ve faced the same problems I’ve faced "

Nadeen Odeh is 17 years old rap singer, She grew up in Dheisha Refugee Camp in Bethlehem and she always believed that singing "Rap" is a way to express the unseen problems that females face in Palestine despite the occupation.

Shireen Shawar

" Instead of playing pretend houses, I use to play pretend company"

Shireen Shawar is a businesswoman, She grew up in a family where her father was a businessman so she always loved the idea of having a business, in 2014 she established her project " Allar bags" to turn handworks and Palestinian embroidery into a professional female product.

Emtyaz Al-Moghrabi

"You have chosen a path that you should complete"

Emtyaz Al-Moghrabi is a Film director from Ramallah, She has worked in the film field for five years now, because she feels that Palestinian films and the Palestinian struggles need documentaries to show the world the reality of Palestinian life.

Wafaa' Al-Adhamy

"They say, Wafaa’ makes a thing out of nothing"

Wafaa' Al-Adhamy is a plastic artist, She is married and has 6 kids, She wanted to study Plastic art in the University, but the only option for her was to study interior design In Hebron, She mastered drawing through the Internet, and she was able to make a drawing clay after 3 years of experimenting.

Amal Shawamreh

“Miss, why your hands look like this"?

Amal is a counselor in Omar Al Khattab school in Hebron, She was born in a different way and she started to feel that when she went to school, she started to notice how people looked at her, at first the society and people didn't accept her because she was different, but at the end she was able to convey a message about the importance of being different.

Amal Al-Jubeh

“They used to tell me cover your hair"

Amal is the head of women’s center for legal counseling in Hebron, she studied sociology in Ramallah-Birzeit university, she always wanted to make a change in her own city,she is not wearing a veil so people there used to talk many things about her, also critiques everything that she does, she want to help women in hebron that they face violence, inheritance, discrimination between women and men, she manage to wear hijab in some places in Hebron, and after that women started to accept her more than before.

Salma

" He was trying to kill me"

Salma (not her real name) is 35 years old, divorced woman, she was forced to marry a guy when she was 18 years old against her will, her husband abused her and she suffered from psychical, emotional, oral violence, her family was trying to push her always to come back to her husband, he used to beat her always, and he tried to kill her, but after a long fight she got her divorce.

Sawsan Rateb

"People looked at me as if i was an alien"

Sawsan is divorced and she is living alone in old city in Hebron, she studied laboratories, but she has been dreaming about making her own project which is sewing traditional Palestinian embroidery in order to introduce foreign people about Hebron culture, so she established her project “ Memories from Hebron” She is helping 22 woman in this project by giving them the opportunity to work and have their own money.

Sharifa Sharif

" I was the first woman in Hebron who obtained this certificate"

Sharifa (50) years old, she was divorced once and then she got married to an old man, she was the first girl in hebron as tour guide, she was wearing hijab, she faced problems from people who always saw her as something unusual and not acceptable, since she was young she always wanted to introduce people about her own city, she lived near old city, she saw how Israeli occupation trying to Judaize the old city, because of that she decided to describe the situation for foreigners.