Voices from the West Bank – USA Palestine Mental Health Network

“All That’s Left of You,” Not just a film, but an experience worth watching

The film “ All That’s Left of You,” speaks directly to those of us born in refugee camps, who grew up in narrow alleys and inherited memory without having lived the first moment of the Nakba itself. It is not simply a story about the past; it is a mirror through which we are invited to see ourselves today.

Nakba 2023

More than 2300 people (children, women, elderly men, and young men) were arrested in the last month, and 90% of them ended up in administrative detention, which means they have no charges against them

Update from Palestine – October 16, 2023

The situation here gets worst and worst! We are under a complete lockdown in the West Bank. There is lack of food, the internet keeps cutting off! Above all settlers are attacking us. I always thought that our Nakba that happened in 1948 because people back then were not educated and didn’t know the term humanity. Now, we witness another Nakba but in front of the whole world!

Once upon a time in Palestine

Saed Zboun is an Arabic teacher as a second language at Bethlehem University and an English literature and translation graduate, with a higher diploma in educational psychology. He is an advocate and one of the founders of the Information Center in Aida Camp

Resistance as a Path to Healing: The Quest for Mental Health in Palestine

A few years ago, I attended a mental health conference with some Palestinian psychologists and psychiatrists--the vast majority of whom were from the territories occupied in 1984, while the rest were from the West Bank. Seminars started to flow one by one, until the facilitator announced a lecture titled “An Israeli in the Psychotherapy Room.” The lecturer addressed the case when a Palestinian therapist tries to mentalize the psyche of an Israeli patient.