An introduction to Ahed Tamimi by Elise Northcote. Subscribe to the Dirrum Dirrum YouTube channel and like Dirrum Festival on Facebook to be notified when Ahed Tamimi's video is made available online. https://youtube.com/dirrumdirrum https://facebook.com/dirrumfestival - - - Ahed Tamimi is a Palestinian eighteen-year-old activist who has been able to spread her message throughout the international community. Growing up in Israeli-occupied West Bank, her father Bassem organised frequent protests in her small village Nabi Saleh. In November 2012, images of then eleven-year-old Tamimi during a protest confronting Israeli soldiers went viral. Tamimi became known for her activism work in the years that followed as further videos of her family’s protests spread, including her at fourteen years old biting the hand of a soldier as he attempted to arrest her brother. In December 2017 Ahed’s fifteen-year-old cousin was shot in the face with a rubber bullet during a demonstration and put into a medically induced coma. Soldiers then entered Tamimi’s home and she was filmed slapping, kicking and shoving them. She was later arrested for assault and the incident attracted international interest and debate. During her imprisonment videos of her being interrogated circulated, which showed male officers commenting on her appearance and threatening to arrest her friends. Tamimi was sentenced to eight months in prison after agreeing to a plea bargain and was released on 29 July 2018. She earned her high school degree while in prison and now wishes to study law to “hold the occupation accountable”. A mural of Tamimi was painted by two Italian artists upon her release. Both artists were subsequently arrested and forced to leave Israel. With flare ups in the Palestine-Israel conflict in Gaza in May this year, Tamimi, described as the next ‘Joan of Arc’ and ‘Rosa Park’, is a continued symbol of resistance and hope for her people. - - - Video produced by Stella Martin, Radford College - - - #dirrumfestivalCBR 2019 Faces of Change | 17 August 2019 For more information about #dirrumfestivalCBR 2019, visit https://dirrumfestival.org/cbr19 - - - #dirrumfestival is an artefact of Dirrum Dirrum, a movement encouraging young people’s engagement in service to the common good. Dirrum Dirrum is a way of seeing others and ourselves bound in respectful relationship, standing in a wide circle of compassionate engagement. It acknowledges a common ground and is an active choice for life beyond the smallness of self-interest. Dirrum Dirrum is the sound of red in Ngunnawal language: the colour of blood and earth. For more information about Dirrum Dirrum, visit https://dirrumdirrum.org/about - - -