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During the last week I was lucky to participate
in a meeting in Tunisia concerning a great storytelling project named HAKAYA.
The project has the interesting and important objective of improving the
collecting and future making of stories. At the same time the project is a partnership
between organizations from north (Denmark, Sweden, France) and south (MENA
countries) which improve inter-cultural interaction and capacity building on
both sides. The head organization is Arab Education Forum which works in Jordan
and MS is only one out of many partner organizations.
This meeting gave me a new way of thinking about stories. Especially the words of Munir from Ramallah on the picture below made a great impression on me...
Stories are not just tales. They are also people’s current life-stories that constitute different ways of writing contemporary history. Promoting storytelling is to strengthen the voice of the people. If we fail in this project we will lose the world of experiences made up by earlier generations. Stories also form an important way of healing from perceptions and convictions that we gained through difficult experiences. Part of what distinguishes stories from other means that are usually used for healing is the fact that they are owned by the people. It is the art of the people, of daily life and daily interaction.
Here you can download the (4 page) newsletter covering January and February. This gives an overview of our work, at the Regional Office in Amman and the first two months I have spend in Jordan.
