Shabab FM

Birzeit area, composed by 12 villages northern Ramallah, from 1967 is characterized by a conflict and a military occupation that have dramatic effects on all the population, such as poverty, violence and psychological traumas. The persisting and the increasing of the Middle East conflict, with the intensification of the military occupation in West Bank, produces a continuous worsening in the daily life of people.

In such a framework, the social breakup is the most dramatic consequence, that denies a democratic evolution and an effective participation of people in social life. For a part of Palestinian society, most of all women and youth, there is lack of tools and spaces in order to meet, aggregate, exchange experiences, self-represent and communicate ideas, points of view, proposals. They have great potential innovative capabilities, but they can’t express themselves, because a threatened society is always authoritarian, and because of some traditional customs in Palestinian society, such as in most of the world societies.