Plans for the graphic novels

In Nablus, all university students, government schools and UN schools are undergoing their end of year exam period during the month of May. Unfortunately, because of this the graphic novel programs have been shortened to 3 intense weeks (75 hours) for the University course and 4 weeks for the children from the refugee camps. As the students attention spans can be short during these hot summer months, this will probably work better as the students can keep inside and have short breaks throughout the class, working on their projects. So far, the publication of their short stories has been confirmed to be featured in the coming issue of Yalla - a youth publication for peace that uses both Arab and Jewish submissions of poetry, art and essays www.yallajournal.com Hopefully, we will be able to succefully create our own publication of the graphic stories that includes the students biography's and maybe even find scholarships for them to attend art programs in Europe, Canada and the US. As I hear many times a day in Palestine, insha'allah! At the end of the University program, we will have an exhibition of their work for other NGO's and art centres in Nablus to attend, bringing even more attention to teh University's pool of talent.