{"id":26985,"date":"2021-03-04T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26985"},"modified":"2021-03-04T19:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:05:41","slug":"%c2%aconos-multicultural-jerusalem-campus-opens-pen-of-peace-creative-writing-program-in-hebrew-and-arabic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/%c2%aconos-multicultural-jerusalem-campus-opens-pen-of-peace-creative-writing-program-in-hebrew-and-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00acOno\u2019s Multicultural Jerusalem Campus Opens \u201cPen of Peace\u201d Creative Writing Program in Hebrew and Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"attachment_26986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26986\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/Pen-of-Peace-Program-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Pen-of-Peace-Program-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Pen-of-Peace-Program-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Pen-of-Peace-Program-768x1121.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Pen-of-Peace-Program-1053x1536.jpg 1053w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Pen-of-Peace-Program-1403x2048.jpg 1403w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Pen-of-Peace-Program.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cPen of Peace\u201d Writing Program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ono Academic College invites Jerusalem students to apply to the Amos Oz Memorial \u201cPen of Peace\u201d program.\u00a0 Amos Oz, the prize-winning Israeli author, was one of the program\u2019s founders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPen of Peace\u201d is a Hebrew-Arabic creative writing initiative that brings together Jewish and Arab Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degree students from East and West Jerusalem to write collaboratively.\u00a0 Together, the participants will attend weekly classes covering various writing techniques. They will learn to recognize the stages of the writing process, will practice working in diverse writing styles and will apply creative writing to their own lives and the lives of other writers in Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teaching will take place in English (and if necessary, there will be simultaneous translation).\u00a0 The writing will be in the native language of each participant with a translation made into Hebrew or Arabic, respectively.\u00a0 At the conclusion of the program each story will appear in a book published in both Hebrew and Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>The academic coordinators of the program are Dr. Rana Abbas and Professor Yuval Elbashan.<\/p>\n<p>The program is free for accepted participants.\u00a0 Applicants must submit an entrance essay and participate in an admissions interview.\u00a0 Places are limited.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants are encouraged to send a Hebrew or Arabic writing sample of 1500 words to the email address <a href=\"mailto:etshalom@ono.ac.il\">etshalom@ono.ac.il<\/a> by 15.2.2021.\u00a0\u00a0 Relevant applicants will be invited to an admissions interview in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>(The \u201cPen of Peace\u201d program tagline is \u201cAnd they shall beat their swords into plougshares\u201d (Isaiah 2:4).\u00a0\u00a0 In Hebrew, the words for \u201cpen\u201d and \u201cploughshare\u201d are homonyms.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ono Academic College invites Jerusalem students to apply to the Amos Oz Memorial \u201cPen of Peace\u201d program.\u00a0 Amos Oz, the prize-winning Israeli author, was one of the program\u2019s founders. \u201cPen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":121,"template":"","class_list":["post-26985","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}