Zaytoun is a social enterprise inspired by a love of Palestinian culture, communities and cuisine. We exist to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade – 100% of our profits are reinvested into delivering this mission.
Palestine at Home
February 3, 2025Home is peace. Home is safety. Home is love.
For many of us, it is the space we are most at ease, a space where memories are created and happiness forged. When our homes are secure we are free to live and thrive surrounded by community and those who love us. Our need for home connects us all.
Open Brief: Israeli Violations of Palestinian Food Sovereignty
February 3, 2025This visual will look at Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid through the lens of Palestinian food production as defined by Via Campesina. The story will be grounded in principles of food sovereignty and will build on Visualizing Palestine’s series on environmental justice in Palestine.
Jumana Manna
February 3, 2025Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of architecture, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and its regeneration. Jumana was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.
Vivien Sansour
February 3, 2025Vivien Sansour is an artist, storyteller, researcher and conservationist.
She uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for the protection of biodiversity as a cultural and political act.Vivien works with a global network of farmers and seed advocates to promote seed conservation and agrobiodiversity.
Mirna Bamieh
February 3, 2025Mirna Bamieh explores the politics of disappearance and memory production by unpacking the social concerns and limitations of Palestinian communities amid contemporary political dilemmas. Since 2019 the artist has also been reflecting on the process of fermentation through text, ceramics and video works incorporated into site-specific interactive installations. Bamieh sees fermentation as a way to extend life, nurture beneficial ecologies, and shift flavors and textures—making it both a metaphor and a method in her multidisciplinary practice.
Nahla Tabbaa
February 3, 2025I am an interdisciplinary artist, working across gestural drawing, ceramics, ecology, food and alchemy. I am also an educator, programme curator, project manager and culinary researcher. Interested in urban and environmental research, materiality, and alchemy, I work within these realms to create works and projects that are socially engaged, robust and intensive.
The Anti-Racist Educator
February 3, 2025The Anti-Racist Educator seeks to engage in partnership work with members of local communities of colour, including allies, as well as established organisations conducting anti-racist work across institutional, educational, political, and personal contexts. The Anti-Racist Educator values practices of inclusivity, integrity, and solidarity that affirm racially diverse identities and experiences.
Mashala
February 3, 2025Call to Action – Our children and communities are bearing witness to the injustice and destruction of lives in Gaza. We are seeing our children being policed, punished, harassed and silenced in their declaration of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We will not be silenced in the face of oppression.
The Runnymede Trust
February 3, 2025Proudly independent, we speak truth to power on race and racism without fear or favour. We are not swayed by political agenda, profit or popular opinion. We are authentic, led by an ethnically diverse team we draw from our lived experience and that of our wide and inclusive community and partnership networks.