The video seen here is one example of many from the bus tour in Jaffa with Yochai Avrahami and Scandar Copti, which took place in the framework of the project "Jaffa; Autobiography of a City" by AYAM; Association for Recognition and Dialogue. Ayam began as an organization of young Palestinians and Jews from Jaffa in 2000. They registered as an amuta in 2005. Its leaders are professionals in various domains—education, the arts, etc.—who have set themselves the goal of conducting a public multicultural dialogue, using it to uncover and document and to make people aware of the importance of the history, memory, and untold story of disempowered populations, as part of the process of future reconciliation and healing.
The organization’s main strategy is using various media (text, sound, video, pictures) to document the historical and contemporary stories that do not find a place in official historiography or the contemporary mass media and then to post this material on the Internet. Another strategy involves educational activities in the formal and non-formal educational systems.
The organization works in Jaffa to create a model and a technological platform for activities that can be applied in other mixed cities as well.
Catalogue no. 1159
File: Jaffa – Autobiography of a City
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
