The Gaza Parkour team practices in a cemetery on the outskirts of their refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. The walls show damage from past Israeli incursions. -- Handout images for the 5th April 2014 fifth annual Middle East Now conference in Florence. A full week of film screenings, art and photo exhibitions, video installation, food tastings, talks on contemporary Middle East and North AfricaCREDIT: Courtesy Middle East Now
The Gaza Parkour team practices in a cemetery on the outskirts of their refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. The walls show damage from past Israeli incursions. -- Handout images for the 5th April 2014 fifth annual Middle East Now conference in Florence. A full week of film screenings, art and photo exhibitions, video installation, food tastings, talks on contemporary Middle East and North AfricaCREDIT: Courtesy Middle East Now
The Gaza Parkour team practices in a cemetery on the outskirts of their refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. The walls show damage from past Israeli incursions. -- Handout images for the 5th April 2014 fifth annual Middle East Now conference in Florence. A full week of film screenings, art and photo exhibitions, video installation, food tastings, talks on contemporary Middle East and North AfricaCREDIT: Courtesy Middle East Now
The Gaza Parkour team practices in a cemetery on the outskirts of their refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. The walls show damage from past Israeli incursions. -- Handout images for the 5th April 2014

Occupied Pleasures: Stories from Palestine, a kickstarter project

Anna Seaman

February 02, 2015

  • English
  • Arabic

"Pleasure is also a form of resistance." This is one of my favourite quotes from Tanya Habjouqa, a friend and hugely talented photographer whose series Occupied Pleasures, captures the absurdity, joy, sadness and normality of every day life in Palestine. She is part Jordanian, part American and married to a Palestinian. The series was exhibited in Dubai's East Wing gallery in May last year and since then, she has started a kickstarter campaign to turn her work into a book, infused with poetry by Najwan Darwish.

Help her make this a reality by supporting the project here.

* aseaman@thenational.ae

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Timeline

2012-2015

The company offers payments/bribes to win key contracts in the Middle East

May 2017

The UK SFO officially opens investigation into Petrofac’s use of agents, corruption, and potential bribery to secure contracts

September 2021

Petrofac pleads guilty to seven counts of failing to prevent bribery under the UK Bribery Act

October 2021

Court fines Petrofac £77 million for bribery. Former executive receives a two-year suspended sentence 

December 2024

Petrofac enters into comprehensive restructuring to strengthen the financial position of the group

May 2025

The High Court of England and Wales approves the company’s restructuring plan

July 2025

The Court of Appeal issues a judgment challenging parts of the restructuring plan

August 2025

Petrofac issues a business update to execute the restructuring and confirms it will appeal the Court of Appeal decision

October 2025

Petrofac loses a major TenneT offshore wind contract worth €13 billion. Holding company files for administration in the UK. Petrofac delisted from the London Stock Exchange

November 2025

180 Petrofac employees laid off in the UAE

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