Arts in the service of promoting values The experience of establishing the artist group “We” in Gaza during the war Alaa Al Jabari, Mahdi Karira, Fidaa Ziad in conversation with Jenny Karaviti


Published: Nov 29, 2025
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arts artists during the war, Palestine Gaza theatre workshops puppetry visual arts writing education testimonies psychological issues social impact
Jenny Karaviti
Abstract

As part of the 2024 World Theatre/Drama & Education Day events, the Northern Greece Office of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) organised a special event to show solidarity with Palestine. On 7 December 2024 at 11 a.m., they connected virtually with “We” (Nahnu in Arabic), a recently formed group of Palestinian artists who are displaced in southern Gaza. The artists first introduced their team by answering questions about how their group was formed, their experiences as artists during the war and their writing, visual arts and puppet theatre workshops in Gaza.
Photographs and other material from the group’s workshops and performances were shown during the presentation. Afterwards, members of the Northern Greece Office, namely Jenny Karaviti as moderator of the discussion, Irini Marna and Antigone Tsarbopoulou, had a brief conversation with the artists.

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Jenny Karaviti, Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network

Jenny Karaviti is a teacher of Greek language and literature, drama pedagogue and writer. She studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens in Greece, before completing postgraduate studies in Theatre and Theatre/ Drama Pedagogy at the universities of Essex and Royal Holloway in the United Kingdom, respectively. She is a founding and active member of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr). As an author, she has published the poetry collection Ms Sante (2024) and contributed to the book The Orange with the Grenade Pin: Theatrical Exercises and Creative Activities. She has also edited Ever After: 33 'Artistic' Fairy Tales by the Art School of Ampelokipi. She has translated poetry anthologies, When Tomorrow Comes (2025) and Think of Others (2010) by Mahmoud Darwish, as well as poems by Mosab Abu Toha, June Jordan, Chantal Rizkallah and others, into Greek. Her translations also include Christopher Phillips' Socrates' Café, Ghazi Algozaibi's A Love Story and the theatre script The Revolution’s Promise by Artists on the Frontline and The Freedom Theatre (2024). She has also subtitled the film Where the Olive Trees Weep.

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