Designer Lubna Salah uses crystals for healing and empowerment in her own life and in the innovative and inspirational jewelry she designs and crafts by hand for her Beverly Hills-based House of Shakti line. Salah's "jewelry with a purpose" is a product of her own life journey, from her time in the Middle East to her experience as a Kundalini Yoga Instructor in California. 

This is a motion comic pitch for the graphic novel Tear Gas in the Morning: A Story of Nonviolent Resistance, by Katie Miranda. Tear Gas in the Morning is the story of Barbara Silverman, a Jewish-American artist volunteering as an activist and human rights worker in the West Bank. The story is loosely based around the authors' own personal experiences and the experiences of real life Palestinians, Israelis and international volunteers. The story takes place primarily in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Ramallah. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Bazinga Ramallah started the way most coworking spaces do--with too much coffee. "We were building mobile and web apps and we spent our time working in cafes, but we felt we were being too unproductive. And it was too expensive," says Mohammad Khatib. So he and some friends rented a storefront and invited others to join them--a space, among the first of its kind, to foster tech startups in the Palestinian territories. But even now, nearly a year later, nobody has joined. That's not to say there isn't interest. 

On Monday, Palestinian photographer Hisham Sarsour won second place in the Oman Sultanate Competition for Journalists and Photographers. More than 1500 photographers from all over the world - including Malaysia, the Palestinian Territories, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates - participated in the competition. 

The Gaza Strip is known to indulge in political murals but water murals are definitely a new thing. Over the summer months, US activists along with local artists, teachers and school children got together to paint 8 murals exploring the water struggles of the Gaza Strip. Murals were painted on the walls of elementary schools and near water desalination units in areas such as Beit Hanoun, Rafah and Bureij Camp.