Western Europe’s largest artificial lake was meant to save Alentejo. It may be doing the opposite
GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE (August) The Alqueva dam promised prosperity for Portugal’s parched south. Instead, it’s fuelling a corporate-driven monoculture that ecologists and farmers warn is destroying the land and the way of life it sustained. On a bright winter morning, Eva Barrocas watches over her sheep as they graze in the olive grove her grandparents planted […]
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‘An ecocide’: How olive oil giants are using a mega dam to intensify production in Portugal
EURONEWS (13/4/25) Standing under an enormous olive tree, José Pedro Oliveira gently caresses its gnarled trunk. “It is more than one thousand years. Maybe older than Christ,” he says. Located near Serpa, in the gently rolling hills of Alentejo in southeastern Portugal, his 30-hectare olive grove is part of a mosaic of oak and fruit […]
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Conferência A Palavra escrita, a mulher e a paz
FUNDAÇÃO JOSÉ SARAMAGO (8/3/2025) Painel “A Palavra Escrita e a Visibilidade do Invisível” sobre a importância que a criação do «outro» tem na promoção da violência, o poderoso papel que a palavra escrita tem na desconstrução dessa ideia. https://www.clubedasmulheresescritoras.com/conferencia-paz-sessao-3
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Discurso Prémio Gazeta de Imprensa
O artigo “A liberdade lá em cima” sobre observadores de aves em Gaza, publicado pelo Expresso na primavera de 2023, recebeu o prémio Gazeta de Imprensa. Discurso na cerimónia dos prémios em Lisboa, no dia 3 de Janeiro de 2025. Dedicado ao Fuad Abu Khammash, fotojornalista morto por Israel, e a todas as jornalistas palestinianas […]
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“A oliveira é considerada a árvore da paz, mas estão a torná-la numa arma de guerra”
PÚBLICO (8/12/2024) A época da apanha da azeitona é a mais importante para comunidades rurais palestinianas. Mas com o intensificar de ataques do Exército e colonos israelitas, é também a mais perigosa. Apesar dos riscos, os palestinianos continuam a cuidar das suas oliveiras, e a colher os frutos de uma tradição com milhares de anos. Walaja, Palestina […]
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Los aceituneros palestinos y los árboles milenarios que los arraigan a la tierra
EL SALTO (8/12/2024) A mediados de noviembre, cuando los cielos se llenan de nubes y las primeras lluvias del otoño finalmente llegan a Palestina tras largos meses de sequía, Salah Abu Ali anuncia el inicio de la cosecha de uno de los olivos más antiguos del mundo en Walaja, un pueblo confinado entre Jerusalén y […]
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Waging a war on Palestinian olive trees
NEW INTERNATIONALIST (5/12/2024) After the first rainfall of autumn, Salah Abu Ali announced the harvest of one of the world’s oldest olive trees in al-Walaja, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He spread red mats around the enormous gnarled trunk, fetched wooden ladders to reach the high branches and gathered his family under the monumental tree. ‘Everyone […]
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Israeli army kills Palestinian grandmother picking olives from her own land
THE NEW ARAB (27/11/2024) When Hussam Abu Salameh received permission from the Israeli military to access the olive grove that has been in his family for generations, he decided to wait. His land, located east of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, is next to the separation wall, where he had previously been shot […]
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Nurturing Seeds of Freedom in Palestine
YES MAGAZINE (5/8/2024) Surrounded by a 26-foot-high separation wall, barbed wire, and a watchtower, a group of young Palestinians prepares a 3.5-acre piece of land for the growing season in spring. The noise of their hoes shaping the soil mixes with the humming of construction cranes from the nearby Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit. Established […]
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‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies
THE GUARDIAN (6/6/2024) Sitting in the shade of an olive tree in the valley of Ein Qiniya, northwest of Ramallah, wildlife photographer Mohamad Shuaibi starts to enumerate the birds he can spot that spring morning. Swifts and swallows flit and swoop around, a short-toed eagle hovers in the distance, a jay sits perched on an […]
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