Palestinske sanje | Palestinian Dreams

Protagonistke in protagonisti pomembne, aktualne in pretresljive knjige so mlade Palestinke in Palestinci. Slednji so knjigo soustvarili s samoportretom in razmišljanjem o prihodnosti. Nasmejani obrazi, polni upanja, želja in sanj. Kako živijo danes, šest let pozneje, kaj do skrajnosti stopnjevano nasilje pomeni za njihove sanje in upe? Ne moremo jih vprašati. Lahko pa si vtisnemo v spomin njihove mlade obraze, prisluhnemo njihovim mislim. Ta knjiga je dokument in je mnogo več kot to. Je pričevanje o tem, da si ljudje povsod po svetu želimo ustvarjati, ljubiti, graditi skupnost in živeti v miru in slogi. A onim, ki so si vzeli pravico upravljati ta svet, ni mar za ljudi, za življenje. Ubijajo jih in njihove domove spreminjajo v ruševine. 

Leta 2018 sta Bojan Brecelj in Barbara Vodopivec izpeljala projekt Semena palestinske prihodnosti/The Seeds of Palestinian Future. Iz semen je letos v založbi Sanje vzklila knjiga Palestinske sanje. Prihaja v čas, ki je še bolj nasilen, tragičen in negotov. V publikaciji Semena palestinskih sanj (2018), v katerem sta kot slovenska partnerja sodelovala Društvo Humanitas in Zavod Proja, sta avtorja naslavljala mlade Zahodnega brega Palestine, jih spraševala o željah za življenje in o tem, kaj jim pomeni Palestina. S pomočjo uporabe samoportretne fotografije in kratkih intervjujev jim je projekt dal glas, lahko so ubesedili svoje doživljanje, videnje osebne in kolektivne identitete. Ko mladi ljudje govorijo o lastnih življenjih, hkrati govorijo o Palestini. Ko opisujejo svoj dom, opisujejo tudi svojo domovino. V njihovih zgodbah Palestina ni nekaj abstraktnega, temveč nekaj, kar doživljajo in izkušajo v vsakdanjem življenju. To pomeni, da je nemogoče ločiti osebne sanje od želja in upov za prihodnost Palestine.

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The book Palestinske sanje/Palestinian Dreams is the work of the initiator Bojan Breclj, the editor Barbara Vodopivec and ninety-nine young Palestinian women and men. The latter co-created the book through self-portraiture and their reflection on the future. A book is a document, and at the same time much more than that. It is a testimony to the desire of people everywhere to create, to love, to be part of a community and live in peace. 

The publication Palestinian Dreams was one of the results of the project Bringing Culture and Art to the Streets of the West bank and the Gaza strip in 2018, in which the following organisations cooperated: Humanitas – Center for Global Learning and Cooperation; Proja – Center for the Realization of Good Ideas; Palestinian organizations Palestinian Vision and Youth Without Borders. The project at the time was supported by the European Union.

The editor Barbara Vodopivec shared her thoughts on the current situation in Palestina, strongly condemning the genocide which is happening in front of the eyes of the world: »At a time when genocide is taking place in Gaza, when Israel has killed thousands and thousands of Palestinians, mostly women and children, it is all the more important to realise that behind numbers there are unique human beings: human beings with names, ideas, aspirations and dreams. This book, though produced in the colonised and occupied West Bank and not in Gaza, clearly illustrates that every Palestinian man and woman has her or his own life path, desires and dreams, which are intertwined with the collective desire and struggle for freedom, with the desire to end Israeli colonisation and apartheid. We hope that this will soon become a reality. For a free Palestine.«