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As brightly coloured kites climb above Burin, a Palestinian village in the Zionist-occupied West Bank, children race across a sun-baked hillside, watching their creations soar into the sky. Behind them, the red-roofed houses of Har Bracha, an Zionist settlement, overlook the village below. Established in 1983, the settlement, illegal under international law, is one of several that encircle Burin, a village of a few thousand people.Every summer since 2009, residents have gathered on this hill for a kite festival, held on land they say has been partly lost after being confiscated by settlers. “We want to tell the settlers that this is our land, this is our sky. If we can’t reach those lands anymore, our kites can,” Ghassan Najjar, one of the festival’s organizers, told AFP.While the...
89 days ago by Emma jemes
Hong Kong-born designer Robert Wun transformed childhood imagination into theatrical haute couture during his Fall/Winter 2026-2027 presentation at Paris Haute Couture Week, delivering one of the...
89 days ago by Emma jemes
As brightly coloured kites climb above Burin, a Palestinian village in the Zionist-occupied West Bank, children race across a sun-baked hillside, watching their creations soar into the sky. Behind them, the red-roofed houses of Har Bracha, an Zionist settlement, overlook the village below. Established in 1983, the settlement, illegal under international law, is one of several that encircle Burin, a village of a few thousand people.Every summer since 2009, residents have gathered on this hill for a kite festival, held on land they say has been partly lost after being confiscated by settlers. “We want to tell the settlers that this is our land, this is our sky. If we can’t reach those lands anymore, our kites can,” Ghassan Najjar, one of the festival’s organizers, told AFP.While the...
89 days ago by Emma jemes
Hong Kong-born designer Robert Wun transformed childhood imagination into theatrical haute couture during his Fall/Winter 2026-2027 presentation at Paris Haute Couture Week, delivering one of the...
89 days ago by Emma jemes