Sharing the Beauty of Palestinian Food
By Robert Leslie I held the photograph of bairns enjoying splashing through waves on a beach in Gaza for a while. I can’t recall how many of them our Gazan host Diline told us had been killed in Israeli air strikes, but it was enough to know that several of these innocent peedie bairns were no longer with us. Kara and I were part of an audience of around 70 folk that sat round tables in the St Magnus Centre on Friday 2 August as…
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Another hidden cost of war is not the fact whole generations are being wiped out (we can see this happening) but it is the culture, food, traditions, stories that are at risk of being erased, we will lose so much of the heritage to this conflict.
As we are also seeing with the attacks on the internet, old websites are being lost, along with the information / data therein, each photo is a snapshot of tine, tells a story and has meaning to the people in the photo, once these are lost or the connections are lost then they can be lost forever, so the point of this last bit is, that we are at risk of losing Gaza and eventually all online records too, as we can't just preserve old websites.
