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LA ProgressiveTeaching Real History: Why Complexity, Not Myth, Builds Informed CitizensAcross the country, classrooms are under pressure—politically, ideologically, and pedagogically. One quiet but powerful force distorting how young people understand the world is reductionist reasoning and erasure of marginalized perspectives in the teaching of history.Dick Price and Sharon Kyle invited Nora Lester Murad to discuss her first hand knowlege of the erasure of Palestinians in Israel. Nora is the author of the award-winning young adult novel, Ida in the Middle. A story about a Palestinian-American girl who eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents’ village near Jerusalem. An impo...2025-06-1236 min
LA ProgressiveTeaching Real History: Why Complexity, Not Myth, Builds Informed CitizensAcross the country, classrooms are under pressure—politically, ideologically, and pedagogically. One quiet but powerful force distorting how young people understand the world is reductionist reasoning and erasure of marginalized perspectives in the teaching of history.Dick Price and Sharon Kyle invited Nora Lester Murad to discuss her first hand knowlege of the erasure of Palestinians in Israel. Nora is the author of the award-winning young adult novel, Ida in the Middle. A story about a Palestinian-American girl who eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents’ village near...2025-06-1236 min
Sumud Podcast: Inspired by PalestineNora Lester Murad: Identity & Resistance | Sumud PodcastThis week on the Sumud Podcast, we're joined by author, educator, and longtime activist Nora Lester Murad. Nora has spent decades working at the intersections of aid, justice, and Palestinian liberation. From co-founding Aid Watch Palestine to raising Palestinian children as a Jewish mother, her journey speaks to the power, and cost of solidarity.
Nora shares moving reflections on parenting under occupation, including the stark contrasts between safety in the U.S. and Palestine, and the painful reality of watching her daughters face military interrogations as teenagers. She also unpacks the harm caused by...2025-05-081h 14
Unpacking ZionismFrom Above: CAMERA with Sana Fadel and Nora Lester MuradWARNING: the word "rapist" appears in this episode several times in the context of Zionist smears. At the 15'48" mark, there is a mention of a Jewish man being shot by a CAMERA-affiliated agitator.In this episode on CAMERA and the Camera Education Institute, we’re hearing from education organizers Sana Fadel, a member of Sawa: Newton-Area Alliance for Peace and Justice, and Nora Lester Murad, of Drop The ADL from Schools. We talk through how Zionist institutions are using education as a platform for much broader political leverage, the split between the ways those institutions aim fo...2025-05-0637 min
Come Back to CarePower-With With Gaza at Your Child's School with Nora Lester MuradToday’s episode invites you to take direct action and practice power-with at our children’s schools through a campaign called Drop the ADL from Schools. ---------------------------Get full show notes and more information at: comebacktocare.com/podcastFor more BTS of this podcast, follow @comebacktocare on Instagram!Sign up for our weekly Care Collective Newsletter for information and inspiration on topics like decolonized parenting, embodied, body-based centering practices for you and your children, intergenerational family healing, and more.I invite you to join me in a virtual gathering once...2024-11-051h 07
Read With Your Ears, Explore With Your Heart With Full AudiobookIda in the Middle Audiobook by Nora Lester MuradListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 813869
Title: Ida in the Middle
Author: Nora Lester Murad
Narrator: Jeed Saddy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:14:50
Language: English
Release date: 08-27-24
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Kids, Historical
Summary:
Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents' village near Jerusalem. An important coming of age story that explores identity, place, voice, and belonging.
Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what's coming next. Some of her classmates treat her like it's all her...2024-08-275h 14
Cyn's WorkshopIda in the Middle ReviewToday, we're reviewing Ida in the Middle, a moving story about one girl's journey to find her passion and discover a stronger connection to her Palestinian roots.
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Lighter Impact with Besan19. Liberatory Giving for Palestine with Nora Lester MuradNora Lester Murad is an activist, writer and educator who has been involved in the Palestinian cause for over 40 years. She has dedicated her life to advocating for peace with justice and has worked with various organizations to promote narrative change and empower local decision making.
Key Takeaways:
Times of crisis present both opportunities and challenges for making an impact and creating narrative change.
Giving during a crisis should be done with an understanding of the systems and constraints that affect how the resources are used.
Liberatory giving involves supporting organizations working towards...2023-10-3045 min
ConnectionsNarrations of Palestine with Alison Glick and Nora Lester MuradOn Wednesday, 9 November Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Alison Glick and Nora Lester Murad about the challenges and rewards of narrating personal experience and political realities in Palestine. This episode of Connections examines the personal and political journeys they undertook, and the impact it has had on their writing and activism. GuestsAlison Glick is a writer and activist based in Philadelphia. She previously lived in an Israeli kibbutz and a town near Haifa for nine months, an experience that opened her eyes to the realities for Palestinians living under Israeli control. After...2022-11-0150 min
On the NoseThe Mapping ProjectIn early June, an anonymous collective of Boston-area activists published “The Mapping Project,” an interactive map listing various institutions in Massachusetts and descriptions of their complicity in Zionism or US imperialism. The list includes universities, foundations, nonprofits, schools, and police departments. The group said they set out to deepen activist “understanding of local institutional support for the colonization of Palestine,” as well as how Israel’s colonization of Palestine is connected to US policing, US foreign policy, and the displacement of local communities. Mainstream Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League reacted to the map with outrage, claiming that listing Je...2022-06-3053 min
Just World PodcastsStory-Backstory ep.7: Palestinian Jerusalem faces Israel's assaultsJust World Educational President Helena Cobban and guest Nora Lester Murad discuss Israel's continuing waves of attack against Palestinian life in Jerusalem, which Ms. Murad describes here as "The front-line of the Palestinians' ongoing Nakba." Ms. Murad is the co-author of the recently published book Rest In My Shade.This episode is a complement to the column Ms. Cobban published on this topic in Mondoweiss on April 3, 2019.Support the show2019-04-0534 min