Wikipedia's first sentence called it “award-winning collaboration between young arabs and jews that focuses on humanizing the israeli-palestinian con”. Today it says “journal focusing on humanizing the israeli–palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Yalla is an award-winning collaboration between young Arabs and Jews that focuses on humanizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression.1 The project began as a literary journal by students at McGill University in 2004 . The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic and Hebrew slang word “Yalla”, meaning “lets get going!”.2 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.3
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The opening as it stood in 2015
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.
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Yalla was a journal focusing on humanizing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression.It was collaboration between young Canadian Arabs and Jews , distributed worldwide.Yalla published two journals, in 2005 and 2007. The Yalla project was 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. The project began as a literary journal by students at McGill University in 2004. Yalla brought together poetry, short stories, essays, art, music and photography of Arab and Jewish youth. The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic and Hebrew slang word "Yalla" , meaning "Let's Go!" [1] McGill University Reporter "Let's Get Going: Jewish and Arab youth unite with Yalla" by Erica Zelfand, Volume 38, January 26, 2006
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Yalla was a journal focusing on humanizing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression. It was collaboration between young Canadian Arabs and Jews , distributed worldwide. Yalla published three journals, in 2004, 2005 and 2007. The Yalla project was 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. The project began as a literary journal by students at McGill University in 2004. Yalla brought together poetry, short stories, essays, art, music and photography of Arab and Jewish youth. The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic origin slang word "Yalla" (also spelled “Yallah”) ( Arabic:يلا ) , meaning "Let's Go!" [1] McGill University Reporter "Let's Get Going: Jewish and Arab youth unite with Yalla" by Erica Zelfand, Volume 38, January 26, 2006
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Journal focusing on humanizing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Yalla was a journal focusing on humanizing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression. It was collaboration between young Canadian Arabs and Jews , distributed worldwide. Yalla published three journals, in 2004, 2005 and 2007. The Yalla project was 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. The project began as a literary journal by students at McGill University in 2004. Yalla brought together poetry, short stories, essays, art, music and photography of Arab and Jewish youth. The title of the journal is derived from the Arabic origin slang word "Yalla" (also spelled “Yallah”) ( Arabic : يلا ), meaning "Let's Go!" [1] McGill University Reporter "Let's Get Going: Jewish and Arab youth unite with Yalla" by Erica Zelfand, Volume 38, January 26, 2006
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award-winning collaboration between young arabs and jews that focuses on humanizing the israeli-palestinian con
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journal focusing on humanizing the israeli–palestinian conflict by encouraging creative expression
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