Najla Said's "Palestine," a one-woman Off Broadway show that began previews on Saturday, is a coming-of-age story about Ms. Said's journey to become an Arab-American on her own terms. The daughter of Edward W. Said, Ms. Said guides the audience though her teenage years as a self-described politically agnostic Upper West Side princess to a vision of herself today, a 35-year-old woman who is deeply moved by the very word "Palestine." 

It was six decades ago, but the fallout from the war continues. A few months ago, one fast-rising, rightwing Israeli party tried to introduce a bill that would ban Palestinians from commemorating the Nakba of 1948, their catastrophe. As far as most Israelis are concerned, they won in 1948, the Palestinians lost, and history has moved on. Except, of course, it hasn't. 

On Monday night in Gaza City, seven Palestinian rap groups battled for the top spot in a Norwegian-funded competition. Screaming fans crammed into a concert hall in the Red Crescent complex for the show, applauding each group as they took the stage. The Norwegian sponsors joined via videoconference. The competition (titled Riasalatna - Our Message) was organized by young Gazan women as the end product of a number of workshops in Gaza and the Norwegian city of Tromso. 

This season's episodes of "Shara'a Simsim," the Palestinian version of the global "Sesame Street" franchise, were filmed in a satellite campus of Al-Quds University, a ramshackle four-story concrete structure that houses the school's media department and a small local television station. The building sits in an upscale neighborhood on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, not far from the edge of the Israeli settlement Psagot. 

Many in Gaza are still coming to terms with the 22-day war waged by Israel earlier this year. But one group is trying to lift the blues - by setting up a breakdancing club. The style originates from New York in the 1970s - and now it's being exported all over Gaza. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Gaza.  

In 1979, ten years before Ata Khatab was born, Mohammad Ata and two other young men founded a humble dabkeh group. This dabkeh group would later be known as El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe and would later become one of Palestine's leading dance troupes. Yet, at the time, Mohammad Ata probably had no idea that ten years later he would have a son, Ata. Or that twenty years after that, Ata would be one of El-Funoun's leading dancers. 

UNRWA called it a record-breaking day Thursday as 6,000 of Gaza's children from 119 schools brought their homemade kites out to the Beit Lahiya beach and set them aloft in the wind. Observers counted at least 3,000 kites, shattering the previous record of 710, registered in Germany. The day was organized by UNRWA summer camps, which operate throughout the Gaza Strip and host 240,000 children each summer. 

Barefoot and sun-blasted from a summer job working as a swim coach in upper Northwest Washington, 21-year-old Ramzy Charles Suleiman smiles an easy smile and caresses the keys of his grandmother's upright piano. It's a Sunday at his boyhood home, a day spent creating what he calls "performance ready" compositions for both instrumental -- he plays piano, clarinet, saxophone and many other instruments -- and "spoken songs." Later this year he will earn a degree from the Berklee College of Music.