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At the end of the Winter 2012 term I was offered on opportunity to volunteer as an intern in the community of Neve Shalom, Wahat-as-Salam, the Oasis of Peace, a community of Israeli Jews and Arabs. Founded in the 1970s, NSWAS was founded as a cooperative village, proving to the world that Arab/Palestinians and Israelis can live together in peace and prosperity.

I will be interning at Peace College within NSWAS this summer. Peace College offers courses in conflict prevention and peace-building and I will interning with them for a period of four months this summer.

NSWAS and Peace College have given me an opportunity to travel to Israel/Palestine, something that I have wanted to do since I was 12 years old.

Here I will post entries and pictures of my experiences within Israel and Palestine.

Blogger: Chris MP
Mission: World Peace
Place: Israel/Palestine


Sunday, 8 July 2012

Israel and Palestine: Ink'd

I was asked to give some details on one of the graphic novels I mentioned in an early post. 
Joe Sacco is a writer and journalist who has worked in the former Yugoslavia and the Palestinian territories.

He has several graphical novels out on his experiences; "The Fixer" "Palestine" "Footnotes from Gaza"

He's definitely worth checking out.

Here are a few panels of his work from the Palestinian territories. These are some of the panels that really stuck with me and I have been experiencing during my time here so far. 

 I really have enjoyed his works so far and his comics have been one of the driving forces of my passion for this area and indeed my support for the Palestinian people and the peace process. 


His stories are great and his art is different and he tells great stories, many of which I have experienced first hand. Check him out the next you are in your neighborhood comic shop.


 

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