The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: culture
Mar 22, 2026
2025.09.07: A Celebration of Culture, Resistance and Liberation in Oak Creek
Cherrie Hanson, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Sep 12, 2025
2025.09.08: “From Rubble We Dance,” Palestine Dance Troupes in Madison
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2025.09.07: “From Rubble We Dance,” Palestine Dance Troupes in Milwaukee
Oak Creek, 350 E. Puetz Rd, 6 pm
2025.07.28: Read Palestine! Discussion with Author Shadi Salem
Online, 7 – 8 pm CT
2025.05.03 Update: Palestine Solidarity Fair
Friends Meeting House, 1704 Roberts Ct, Madison, 2-4:30 pm Open House
2025.04.14-18: UW Against Apartheid Week
Students for Justice in Palestine UW-Madison
2025.04.05: Read Palestine! Celebrates Arab American Heritage
Goodman South Library, 2222 S Park St, 1:30 pm
2025.03.08: Overture Center International Festival
Madison, 10 am – 5 pm
2025.03.21-30: Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), February 10, 2025
2024.12.14: Holiday Craft & Cookie Sale for Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem
Memorial United Church of Christ 5705 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg 9 am – 12 noon All…
2024.11.29-12.06: Read Palestine Week
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2024.11.11 & 25: Children’s African Story Hour
Children’s African Story Hour: Egyptian LullabyFrom the Middle East Studies Program at UW-MadisonNovember 11, 4 -5…
2024.10.19: Madison Video of Gazan Poet Mosab Abu Toha
Wisconsin Book Festival Video View this post on Instagram A post shared by Read Palestine…
2024.10.27: Celebrating Palestinian Cultural Resistance
UW Memorial Union, Great Hall5-9 PM View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Special Back-to-School Appeal: Please support Read Palestine!
During the past year the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project joined with a group of local…
24.07.18: Crafts Sale & Conversation with Laila Hasan of Women in Hebron
July 18, 2024 Goodman Community Center, Merrill Lynch Room 6 – 8 pm Another chance to meet…
2024.06.29: International Festival
Overture Center201 State Street, Madison10 am – 5 pm Join Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Palestine…
Visiting Palestinian textile artist has a message for Madisonians
Miquéla V. Thornton, The Cap Times, June 6, 2024 When Laila Hasan thinks back to…
Al-Khalil, art, Cap Times, Cassandra Dixon, checkpoints, culture, embroidery, Europe, FBI, Gaza War, genocide, Hamas, Handala, Hebron, Israel, Israelis, Jerusalem, Laila Hasan, land, Madison, maps, Middle East, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), military, MRSCP, occupation, October 7, olive trees, online, Palestine, Palestine Partners, Palestinians, peace, protest, Rafah, settlers, tatreez, travel, United States, violence, West Bank, Women in Hebron2024.06.09: Laila Hasan’s Embroidery & Jewelry
Listen to Laila Hasan and Esty Dinur on WORT 89.9 FM’s A Public Affair, 5/31/24…
2024.03.24: Read Palestine! Presents These Olive Trees
Room of One’s Own Bookstore 2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison 1 pm Written and illustrated by…
2024.02.08: Gaza Poet Yahya Ashour at UW-Madison
Yahya Ashour is an emerging poet known for his profound and moving reflections on the…
2023.12.16: Dar al-Kalima University Cookie and Crafts Sale
9:00 – noon Memorial United Church of Christ 5705 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg This will be…
Women in Hebron at Change Boutique
Nikki at Change Boutique, corner of Williamson and Baldwin on the eastside, has some Women…
2023.12.02-10: Madison-Palestine Solidarity Week
Some events require registration See @solidaritymadison | Linktree
2023.12.02: Fair Trade Holiday Festival
Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival Monona Terrace 8 am – 3 pm Madison-Rafah Sister City…
2023.10.16: Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art
Monday, October 16, 12 noon – 1:05 pm Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and…
2023.10.15: Spectrum News: Madison’s Olive Harvest filled with somber celebrations
RHONDA FOXX, SPECTRUM NEWS 1, OCT. 16, 2023
calendar, Cassandra Dixon, civilians, culture, economy, Gaza War, Hamas, Hezbollah, hostages, human rights, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), land, Lebanon, Madison, Middle East, Milwaukee, MRSCP, olive trees, Palestine, Palestine Partners, Palestinians, peace, Playgrounds for Palestine, protest, Rafah, West Bank2023.10.15: Madison Celebrates Palestine and the Olive Harvest
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, October 16, 2023 We will be covering the situation in…
2023.09.22-23: More September Events!
Friday, Sept. 22: Palestine Writes Literature Festival Live-Streamed Session From 12:30 pm CT to end…
Cat Cafe to De-Stress Residents Opens in Gaza Strip
Owner hopes playing with felines will offer therapy to those scarred from the strip’s devastating…
2023.08.29-10.16: August to October Events
Tuesday, August 29, 7 pm CT Reparations and the Palestinian Right of Return as Teshuvah…
Searching for Saboun Nabulsi
NATALIE JABBAR, SALON, JULY 8, 2023
2023.03.01-04: March Events
Wednesday, March 1: MENA event “Night at the Bazaar” Thursday, March 2: What’s next for the…
2022.12.10: Cookie and Crafts Sale for Dar Al Kalima University Scholarships
9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Memorial United Church of Christ 5705 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg This…
2022.10.29: “You Can Be the Last Leaf” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She’ll read poems…
calendar, California, checkpoints, Chicago, culture, human rights, images, Jerusalem, land, literature, Middle East, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), Nablus, New York Times, online, Palestine, Palestinians, peace, petition, poetry, prison, prisoners, Ramallah, refugees, travel, violence, West Bank2022.10.02: Turath Baladna: A Celebration of Palestine’s Olive Harvest
And here’s a link for donations to cover the costs of this event.
Gaza is Not a Breaking News Cycle
The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy August 11, 2022 Good Morning, As you might…
2022.04.09: Celebrate with Sister Cities International
Celebrate Palestinian Heritage and Culture with Sister Cities International 11 am Central Join Webinar
They think we Arabs are uncivilized?
Amer Zahr, YouTube, 8 March 2022 Amer Zahr is a Palestinian Arab American comedian, speaker,…
2022.03.19: International Festival at Overture Center
10 am – 5 pm FREE Come celebrate the rich cultural heritage and diversity of…
Born of war: How a Palestinian woman responds to trauma through art
Indlieb Farazi Saber, Middle East Eye, 5 January 2022
art, censorship, culture, Gaza, Gaza City, healthcare, images, Italy, land, Middle East, Nakba, occupation, Palestine, Palestinians, peace, prison2021.09.22-28: Virtual Delegations to the South Hebron Hills
Visit with Youth of Sumud and your guides Bana & Sami September 2021 Join us…
2021.09.13: Arab Americans: We’re Not White, a Talk by Amer Zahr
Register Amer Zahr, founder and producer of the annual 1001 Laughs Ramallah Comedy Festival, is…
2021.08.16: Webinar ‘From Bethlehem to Gaza’ with Laila El-Haddad and Vivien Sansour
Palestinian Culinary Resilience & Liberation! Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) Laila El-Haddad and Vivien Sansour…
2021.06.15 Update: Book Launch of The Gaza Kitchen, 3rd ed.
6 pm Central Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad’s The Gaza Kitchen cookbook is back in…
Ancestors of Palestinian Liberation
Palestine Advocacy Project has partnered with Anemoia Projects to bring you Ancestors of Palestinian Liberation: …
2021.04.18: Gather for Gaza: UNRWA Virtual Cooking Event
2 pm CT Join UNRWA USA, Mama’s Palestinian Kitchen, and three celebrated culinary artists —…
2021.02.27-03.05: International Festival Online
Opens 10 am Saturday, February 27 The International Festival usually takes place throughout Overture Center.…
2021.02.21: Palestine on a Plate!
Middle East Children’s Alliance Webinar, 10 am CT Only $10 donation, REGISTER NOW! Join the…
Palestine Partners and Women in Hebron
Dear Friends, Last year at this time my friend Laila was visiting the US, bringing…
2020.11.11: Madison’s Virtual Fair Trade Holiday Festival is Open!
Our online store, Madison-Rafah Marketplace, has added crafts to our olive oil sales. We offer…
2020.11.11: Virtual Fair Trade Holiday Festival
Dear Members and Friends of MRSCP, Mark your calendars for the upcoming Madison Fair Trade…
Israel Raids Cultural Centre and Conservatory of Music
Date: 23 July 2020 Time: 09 30 GMT On Wednesday, 22 July 2020, Israeli occupation…
Palestinians say Israel stole ancient baptismal font from Bethlehem town
YUMNA PATEL, Mondoweiss, JULY 20, 2020
2019.04.23-25: War Over Peace: Israel in the eyes of a Critical Sociologist
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Sociology, University of Haifa The Havens Center, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison…
2019.04.19: Palestinian Culture Night: Existence is Resistance
UW-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine Memorial Union UW-Madison 800 Langdon St 7:00 PM –…
2019.02.23: International Festival at Overture Center
201 State Street Madison 10 am – 5 pm Once again Overture celebrates the rich…
2018.06.14-16: Palestine: Unlimited Photo Exhibits in Madison
Now Through Saturday, June 16: Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, 1502 Parkside Dr., Madison…
Palestine: Unlimited
Elaine Pasquini, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 2017 March-April Throughout the month of December,…
2017.02.25: International Festival
Overture Center State Street, Madison 10 am – 5 pm Take a trip around the…
2017.02.23: UW Debka Lessons Night 1
UW-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine Thursday, February 23 at 7 PM – 8 PM…
2016.02.13: Students for Justice in Palestine Palestinian Culture Night
Saturday, February 13 Red Gym, On Wisconsin Room UW-Madison Campus 5:00 PM Students for Justice…
2005.11.03: Ibdaa Dance Troupe in Madison
IBDAA! We are excited to announce that on Thursday November 3 the world-renowned Ibdaa Children’s…
