Writer Ahlam Bsharat and artists Haneen Nazzal and Hiba Saleem
- Phase 1 (11–16 Oct): Creative Writing (17+)
- Phase 2 (18–22 Oct): Illustration (17+)
- Phase 3 (24–29 Oct): Shadow Theatre and Film Direction (12–16)
Place: al-Sheikh Sa’ed village and the Palestinian Museum

Participation is free, registration is required here.

On 15 March 2010, the Israeli Military Court approved a plan to separate al-Sheikh Sa’ed village from the rest of Jerusalem with an eight-metre-high annexation and expansion wall. This series of workshops will explore the impact of this violent action on the identity, social relations, and economy of the village through creative writing, comics, animation, and shadow theatre.

Over the course of six sessions per workshop (18 sessions total), the first participating group (aged 17 and above) will work with author Ahlam Bsharat to develop stories that narrate the lived experience in al-Sheikh Sa’ed based on a visit to the village. The second group of participants (design students over 17 years old) will illustrate the written stories in the form of comics. Finally, the third group (students aged between 12 and 16 years old and their educators) will reinterpret the previous workshops’ stories and comics using shadow theatre and animation. The series will result in a short film, a comic book, a booklet with the final texts, and artistic captioned postcards.