Casa Palestina has been made possible by the many friends and family that have come together to donate their time, skills or guidance.
Core Team
Dima Akram
Founder & Creative DirectorTanya Karsou
Ops & Finance DirectorArt & Program DirectorNour Alsholi
Carolina Pereira
Media DirectorProduction DesignLeen El Mobaddr
House OperatorMohammed
ChefHani Zeghmati
Restaurant & Bar ManagerSoraia Monteiro
Board Members
Nour el Tibi
Lara Aladina Carvalho
Carlin Quinn
Patrícia Filipa Gonçalves Baptista Nabico e Lima da Cunha
Diana Ferreira Antunes
Ana Isabel Dias Miranda de Carvalho
Casa Partners
Don’t Skip Humanity is an independent production company and storytelling lab working across cinema, media, and cultural impact. Through politically urgent films, campaigns, educational initiatives, and its digital academy, the organisation develops stories rooted in dignity, memory, and resistance across communities. Its work spans documentary cinema, digital storytelling, community-based education, and cultural mobilisation, collaborating with filmmakers, artists, grassroots movements, and impact-driven organisations.
Aswatna Studio was founded to elevate Palestinian talent to the world stage and reshape global perceptions of Palestine through the voices of its people. Aswatna was established to address these gaps by building long-term, culturally rooted support structures for Palestinian artists.
It empowers artists to access professional opportunities, expand their audiences, and generate sustainable income.
INSANA is a creative collective weaving Palestinian memory into contemporary form through curated and custom goods, including embroidered fabrics, tatreez kuffiyehs, tote bags, and more.
It merges heritage with contemporary feminine expression, honouring the hands that came before while creating for the world today.
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Arabic: مقام, romanized: maqam.
Noun of place from the verb مقام (qama, "to get up), from the root ق و م (q w m).
With a curated selection of English and Arabic titles centred around the arts, culture, politics and history of the Arabic speaking world.
Maqam distribute books, curate shelves and create experiences for our community to gather and learn.
Seeds of Hope (a registered association in Portugal) is a Palestinian-led association founded in 2024 created to defend the right to education and wellbeing for children in Gaza. Operating from learning tents that travel with displaced communities, the organisation provides safe, trauma-informed learning, psychosocial care, and creative healing practices for children affected by occupation, siege, and bombardment.
JABAL AL ZAYTOUN