for Healing & Liberation
Current Research Projects:
Project in Development:
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Dr. Atallah is currently developing a new research and action-focused project in collaboration with the Palestinian American Research Center. More specifically, this project includes the co-designing and co-writing of an Indigenous, Palestinian-centered workbook with colleagues from Gaza, the West Bank, and the shataat (diaspora). This workbook focuses on identifying several strategies for healing, grieving, and resisting in the face of the ongoing genocide. Once this workbook is fully designed and developed, we will begin to investigate the impact of the implementation of this workbook with Palestinian communities through decolonial, qualitative approaches to critical inquiry.
More information about this project to come....
COMPLETED PROJECT:
CURCUM’s Trees, A Decolonial Healing Guide for
Palestinian Community Health Workers in the West Bank
“CURCUM’s Trees: A Decolonial Healing Guide for Palestinian Community Health Workers” is a fully bilingual workbook
(English and Arabic) focusing on decolonial healing, and can be downloaded free of charge.
For our workbook in English, visit:
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For our workbook in Arabic / للØصول على الكتاب باللغة العربية
https://mayflybooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CURCUMs-Trees-Arabic-Version.pdf
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Please feel free to share and distribute widely on all your networks.
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This workbook was designed to support community workers in Palestine towards deepening understandings for ongoing resistance and healing. There are five chapters, organized around a series of our beloved native trees and Indigenous knowledges rooted in our Palestinian lands and communities.
COMPLETED PROJECT:
Evaluation of Anti-Racism Youth Leadership Programming in Boston
This is a research project that we, the DARA Collective, are honored to have completed in partnership with one of our Boston-based community research partners, The City School. In this project, we evaluated The City School's anti-racist and trauma-informed youth leadership program. We are currently working on publishing articles based on our data analysis, which we completed using qualitative methodologies.
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This project was part of masters’ theses research projects of graduate students Rhyann Robinson & Michelle Del Rio.
COMPLETED PROJECT:
Mapuche Decolonial Resistance and Healing Journeys
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We completed this project in 2019. We are working with our beloved peñi and lamgien (brothers and sisters in Mapudungun) to continue to build on our previous projects and collaborations, which focused on enactments of decolonial solidarity praxis in our research and activism while exploring resilience and resistance from perspectives of Indigenous community healers and frontliners in the Mapuche decolonial movements.
3 Community Partnerships
3 Sites of Struggle & Liberation
