Embassy of the State of Palestine

On Thursday 20 September, Ambassador Abdulhadi attended the opening of the National Museum of Australia’s (NMA) latest exhibition, Rome: City and Empire, in Canberra. The reception was attended by around 300 people, including members of the international diplomatic corps, and featured Dr Thorsten Opper, Senior Curator at the British Museum...

On Friday 21 September, Ambassador Abdulhadi and First Secretary Noura Saleh attended the gathering in Canberra for the UN International Day of Peace, hosted by the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) and the Rotary Club of Canberra Burley Griffin.

Writer-director Annemarie Jacir’s multi-award winning comic drama explores the lives of Palestinians living in Israel, and stars real-life father and son Mohammad and Saleh Bakri.

On Wednesday 15 August, Chargé d’Affaires and Counsellor Ms Suheir Gedeon delivered a letter of appreciation on behalf of Ambassador Abdulhadi to the Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia in Australia, H.E. Mr Jaime Bueno-Miranda, expressing the Palestinian government’s sincere gratitude to the Colombian government for its recent decision to...

On the evening of Wednesday 8 August, a delegation from the Association for the Development of Arabic Poetry and Heritage headed by Dr Bahia (Betty) Abou-Hamad visited the Palestinian Delegation so that their guest of honour, Professor Rifaat Ebied, Foundation Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Sydney, could...

On 7 June, the Palestinian Delegation participated in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) first Iftar dinner at the Canberra Islamic Centre in Monash. It was an opportunity for the diplomatic missions that comprise the OIC to unite Canberra’s Muslim community and members of other faiths in a spirit of...

On the evening of Tuesday 22 May, the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine organised a screening of the 2017 documentary From Under the Rubble at Parliament House. Attended by over ninety people including MPs, Senators, Diplomats, NGO representatives and community supporters of the Palestinian cause, the film featured the story of...

On Friday 18 May, Ambassador Abdulhadi was invited by the General Union of Palestinian Workers and the Australian Palestinian Club to observe the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe), and to celebrate the month of Ramadan.

The Palestinian community in Canberra organized an Iftar dinner on Sunday 20 May. It was an opportunity to also observe the 70-year anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba where more than 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland and more than 550 villages were demolished.   

First Secretary Noura Saleh represented the Palestinian Embassy at a Ramadan celebration hosted by the Islamic High Council of Australia on Friday 18 May in Sydney. The Iftar was attended by federal and local MPs, religious leaders, civil society representatives and community leaders, among others.