Across Palestine, spring flowers are filling the landscape with their vibrant red, yellow and purple colors, welcoming in the new season and the transformative renewal that comes with it. On Friday, April 18, 2014, in the National Theater of Palestine, East Jerusalem, a different type of blossoming took place as boys and girls aged 14 to 17 from East Jerusalem took to the stage […]

Graduation Ceremony On 25th June at the Movenpick Hotel in Ramallah Al-Mada organized a Graduation Ceremony for those who completed 2 courses at Al-Mada: “Introduction to Music Therapy” and “Advanced Training in Music Therapy”.    UNRWA Deputy Director Mr. Tim Henry attended and gave a speech, in which he thanked Al-Mada and WFD for their contributions and spoke very highly of Al-Mada’s work with […]

Ramallah, Cultural Palace, April 9th, 2014 @ 7:00PM In 2012, John came to Palestine with Remember Shakti for the first solidarity concert by major international artists. In 2010, John donated his entire cash prize award from the Jazzahead Festival in Germany to support Al-Mada’s music therapy center in Ramallah, the first of its kind in Palestine. A letter from John McLaughlin  Dear Friends: I would […]

Ramallah, Cultural Palace, April 9th, 2014 @ 7:00PM In 2012, John came to Palestine with Remember Shakti for the first solidarity concert by major international artists. In 2010, John donated his entire cash prize award from the Jazzahead Festival in Germany to support Al-Mada’s music therapy center in Ramallah, the first of its kind in Palestine. A letter from John McLaughlin  Dear Friends: I would like […]

Ramallah, Cultural Palace, April 9th, 2014 @ 7:00PM In 2012, John came to Palestine with Remember Shakti for the first solidarity concert by major international artists. In 2010, John donated his entire cash prize award from the Jazzahead Festival in Germany to support Al-Mada’s music therapy center in Ramallah, the first of its kind in Palestine. A letter from John McLaughlin  Dear Friends: I would like […]

Al Mada Association for Arts Based Community Development together with UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East under the auspices of Commission General Filipo Grande are proud to announce that grammy award winners, guitarist John McLaughlin and tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain will play a one off concert with their world-renowned group Remember Shakti, at the Ramallah […]

On Friday, 24 January 2014, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded five others in two separate incidents in Beit Lahia and Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.  Israeli forces opened fire at them after they had thrown stones at the Israeli soldiers. According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 15:40 on Friday, a group of […]