Yalla (journal)

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Yalla is a collaboration between young Arabs and Jews that focuses on humanizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression.

The project began as a literary journal by students at McGill University in 2004[1]. The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic and Hebrew slang word “Yalla”, meaning “lets get going!”.

The Yalla project is a not-for-profit international initiative aimed at stimulating dialogue and demonstrating the human side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of mainly Jewish and Arab youth. Yalla brings together poetry, short stories, essays, art, music and photography of Arab and Jewish youth[2]. The journal is distributed worldwide.

Yalla has a board which is equally balanced between Jewish and Arab members. Yalla is a collaborative effort and is not politically affiliated. Yalla has published two journals and is in the midst of accepting submissions for a third as well as developing an interactive website.

Yalla is also becoming a web presence - with a new YouTube Channel, YallaTV as well as a Facebook group 'Yalla Journal' that as of January 2008 has 573 members.

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{{1. "Lets Get Going : Jewish and Arab youth unite with Yalla" McGill Reporter, January 26, 2006. http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/38/10/yalla/ 2. "Holla! Its Yalla!" The Link : Concordia's Independant Student Newspaper. http://thelink.concordia.ca/view.php?aid=38952 }}