The Maia Mural Brigade brought artists from The Estria Foundation's Water Writes Project and The Break the Silence Mural Project to travel to Palestine and collaborate with local artists on the creation of public murals depicting local water conditions. We painted 8 murals in 8 days at schools near water filtration systems that provide potable water to over 30,000 children and their families. 

Palestine might not seem like a breeding ground for race car drivers. After all, the area is dotted with checkpoints and roadblocks, hundreds of obstacles that can cramp a driver's ability to explore a car's limits. But that hasn't stopped a group of Palestinian women from driving very fast, winning races and making a name for themselves along the way. 

Sleeping on Stones is the first dramatic feature film to be shot in Hebron and chronicles the lives of three 10-year-old boys as they grow up during the First Intifada. Despite their different identities-Hamza, a talented Palestinian soccer player; Yousef, also Palestinian, with a voice for the old Arabic ballads; and Jacob, a rebellious Jewish-American settler with difficulties adapting to his new life-the boys become close friends through their mutual passion for soccer. 

It's official - the children of the Gaza Strip again hold the Guinness World Record for the most kites flown simultaneously - this time it was 12,350. The record was broken at an event organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency at Al-Waha beach, Gaza Strip, on 28 July last year. I took the first two photos just before taking up my duties as an "observer" responsible for counting the number of kites flying in my assigned sector between the two sirens signifying the start and end point of the official timing. 

Underground train travel to bypass a chaotic traffic system? Welcome to Gaza, one of the world's most crowded places, where a conceptual art installation expresses this tantalising idea. Palestinian artist Mohamed Abusal erected luminous red metro signs in 50 different, and often unlikely places, across the Gaza strip, the dusty coastal territory measuring 40 square kilometres and home to some 1.6 million people. 

Members of the Eastern Catholic Church began their Christmas celebrations in the Gaza Strip on Sunday with traditional prayers in church services. The Protestant community also observed mass in the Dir al Latin church. Reports from Gaza confirm that the ceremonies passed without any untoward trouble or interference, contrary to recent reports of harassment and persecution of Christians in Palestine. 

As Christmas approaches, Palestinian Christians in historic Palestine and the diaspora are preparing to celebrate the holiday season. Occupied Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, is in the hearts and minds of many of them. 

A festival celebrating the artistic achievements of Palestinians with disabilities launched this month at Bethlehem's Palestine Ahliya University. The opening of Palestine's National Festival of People with Disabilities featured an exhibition of drawings by Echlas Al-Azzeh, 37, who lives in Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem and has muscular dystrophy.