Yalla (journal)

Yalla (journal)

Yalla is an award-winning collaboration between young Canadian Arabs and Jews that focuses on humanizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression.

The project began as a literary journal by students at Montreal, Quebec's McGill University in 2004. The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic and Hebrew slang word “Yalla”, meaning “Let's Go!”

The Yalla project is a not-for-profit international initiative aimed at stimulating dialogue and demonstrating the human side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of mainly Jewish and Arab youth. Yalla brings together poetry, short stories, essays, art, music and photography of Arab and Jewish youth. The journal is distributed worldwide.

Yalla has a board which is equally balanced between Jewish and Arab members. Yalla is a collaborative effort and is not politically affiliated. Yalla has published two journals and is slated on publish a third on in late 2009.