Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumIn Israeli City of Haifa, a Liberal Palestinian Culture Blossoms
HAIFA, Israel At Elika, a bar in the Hadar neighborhood of this hilly port city, a 30-something psychodramatist rolled a cigarette and sipped coffee with her father, a well-known actor in Israel. The bartender poured tall beers for two women who wandered in for an afternoon pint. Nearby, a 22-year-old woman with a partly shaved head and colorful tattoos sat alone, working on her laptop.
They were among the many coifed, pierced and tattooed women and men who populate a slice of Haifas social scene that resembles that of the well-heeled hipsters of Tel Aviv. But here the cool kids are Palestinians, and they have unfurled a self-consciously Arab milieu that is secular, feminist and gay-friendly.
Haifa is a center for Arabs, like Tel Aviv is a center for Jews, said Asil Abu Wardeh, the Elika patron who practices a performance-based form of psychotherapy. There is a cultural movement. There is a youth movement. Theres a kind of freedom here.
We have our own parties. Our own places. Our own discos. We dance. We drink. We do it all in Arabic, she added. This all began in Haifa.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/world/middleeast/in-israeli-city-of-haifa-a-liberal-palestinian-culture-blossoms.html?_r=0
King_David
(14,851 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)Liberal washing.
The Arabs of Israel are supposed to be poor downtrodden victims of oppression who want to blow shit up because of how the evil Jews treat them.
Not this.
Anything but this.