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Discover who we are and what we stand for. Learn about our mission, vision, and values.
Inspiration
Palestine House is a safe and creative space inspired by Palestinian culture, a home-from-home for those who have faced displacement and oppression, and a centre for work, events and meetings. Our team has backgrounds in culture, business, charity, heritage, literature and law and we are working to achieve charitable, development and humanitarian projects. Palestine House is a registered CIC and adopted as a charity by Prospero World.
OUR VALUES
Palestine House is for everyone, a place not just for Palestinians, but for all those people from lands where they have been made into refugees and seek a sense of belonging. A place where we can accumulate all of this pain and sorrow and convert it into strength and beauty. A place where we celebrate diversity and encourage difference to be our strength rather than our weakness.
Our team
Osama Qashoo
Founder
MA National Film & Television School, Osama is a filmmaker, artist, and human rights advocate from Palestine and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement which resists the Israeli occupation through nonviolent direct action. He also co-founded Free Gaza to challenge the Israeli blockade by sea and was aboard the Freedom Flotilla in 2010 when ten civilian passengers were killed by the Israeli military
Peter Chappell
Co-Director
Peter is a photographer and filmmaker who has made award-winning documentary and fiction films throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East that explore human experience through culture and conflict.
Alexandra Lort Phillips
Co-Director
Alexandra is a producer and development manager with experience in performing arts, culture and heritage projects, events and human rights research and activism in Edinburgh, London, Wales and internationally, including the Gaza Strip.
Steering Group
May Abdalla
An acclaimed director and artist known for using physical experience, technology and storytelling in ground-breaking ways. She directed a number of character-led documentary films internationally which were screened by the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera and also selected for Semaine De La Critique at Cannes.
Rawan Abu Asad
A Palestinian journalist from Gaza, dedicated to the field of digital journalism. She is a Chevening Scholar and has had the opportunity to work with Twitter, Al Jazeera English, and Bloomberg. Driven by a commitment to truth and storytelling, Rawan brings important stories from the Middle East to a broader audience.
Holly Aylett
A filmmaker, writer and cultural sector director. An Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, London University she is also directs the UK’s Coalition for Cultural Diversity, and sits on the board of the International Federation of civil society coalitions, IFCCD, implementing UNESCO’s Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions, 2005.
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