Art, Music & Culture

Bio shows why Leila Khaled remains an icon of resistance

Asa Winstanley
23 May 2012

Leila Khaled, an icon of the Palestinian resistance struggle, is the subject of a recommended new biography.

Interview: racism of Britain's rulers in Palestine explored in major new exhibition

Sarah Irving
21 May 2012

Unearthed photographs shed new light on the British army’s Mandate of Palestine which paved the way for Zionist colonization.

Palestinian artists take on identity and politics with humor in "Subversion" exhibition

Sarah Irving
13 May 2012

Subversion, an exhibition at Manchester’s Cornerhouse gallery, shows that young Palestinian artists are at the cutting edge of contemporary Arab art.

Film review: Palestinians in Israel honored in debut comedy feature

Maureen Clare Murphy
10 May 2012

The under-recognized steadfastness of Palestinians who clung onto their land in the areas of Palestine upon which the State of Israel was declared is lovingly praised in Sameh Zoabi’s lighthearted debut feature Man Without a Cell Phone.

Phil Monsour transcends Palestine's tragedy on rousing new rock album

Samah Sabawi
7 May 2012

Australian musician and activist Phil Monsour evokes revolutionary courage on his eclectic new album, Ghosts of Deir Yassin.

Book review: fresh thought on Israeli colonialism offered by "Global Palestine"

Jimmy Johnson
2 May 2012

Global Palestine is a recommended new contribution to the growing literature discussing Zionism as a form of settler colonialism.

Censored Gaza children's art now touring Canada

Shereen Ahmed Rafea
Montreal
30 April 2012

A Child’s View from Gaza, a collection of artwork by children in Gaza that was censored by a US art museum last year, is currently touring across Canada.

Shakespeare in Palestine: theater director speaks on Arabic version of Richard II

Sarah Irving
27 April 2012

Iman Aoun, artistic director of Ramallah’s Ashtar theater group, discusses the upcoming performance an Arabic-language version of Shakespeare’s Richard II at the Globe Theater in London.

Al-Walajah village explores theater as a form of resistance

Ben Rivers
al-Walaja
25 April 2012

In a unique protest action in the threatened village of al-Walaja, residents and local artists harnessed the power of music, theater, dance and poetry.

Against the engine of violence: New book explores history of unarmed resistance in Palestine

Jimmy Johnson
23 April 2012

Wendy Pearlman’s new book describes how the historical organizational structures of the Palestinian liberation struggle help to determine the methods of resistance against the British, the Jordanians and the Israelis.

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