Growing figs in a place of war

In the second installment in a three-part series on Palestinian organic farming, Palestinian artist and filmmaker Mazen Saadeh takes on a new project organic farming in the cross hairs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By Yuval Ben-Ami | 09:01 13.09.12 |

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Drive a mere 15 minutes south of Jerusalem, and you will enter another world.

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