Yalla (journal)

Yalla is an award-winning collaboration between young Canadian Arabs and Jews that focuses on humanizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression.[1]

The project began as a literary journal by students at Montreal, Quebec's McGill University in 2004.[1] The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic and Hebrew slang word “Yalla”, meaning “Let's Go!”

The Yalla project is a not-for-profit international initiative aimed at stimulating dialogue and demonstrating the human side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of mainly Jewish and Arab youth.[1] Yalla brings together poetry, short stories, essays, art, music and photography of Arab and Jewish youth. The journal is distributed worldwide.[1]

Yalla has a board which is equally balanced between Jewish and Arab members. Yalla is a collaborative effort and is not politically affiliated. Yalla has published two journals and is slated on publish a third on in late 2009.

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The Yalla editorial board is currently centered in Toronto and comprises the following members:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 McGill University Reporter "Let's Get Going: Jewish and Arab youth unite with Yalla" by Erica Zelfand, Volume 38, January 26, 2006

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