Art, Music & Culture

New film documents resilience of Bedouin village destroyed 30 times

Nora Barrows-Friedman
12 December 2011
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours talks to The Electronic Intifada about her new film focusing on the Bedouin village of al-Araqib and the women, men and children who resist displacement by the Israeli government and the Jewish National Fund.

New Pappe book highlights plight of forgotten Palestinians

Asa Winstanley
7 December 2011
Historian Ilan Pappe addresses the plight of Palestinians who remained in the new State of Israel following the Nakba in The Forgotten Palestinians.

Book review: Putting occupation's profiteers in the dock

David Cronin
1 December 2011
Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation is required reading to understand how some enterprises are accomplices to murder.

New Lowkey album a soundtrack to the human struggle

Alexander Billet
16 November 2011
Iraqi-British rapper Lowkey’s new album Soundtrack to the Struggle is not only a listening experience, but a call for a fundamentally different world.

Book review: Fernández skewers empire's messenger Tom Friedman

David Cronin
4 November 2011
After reading The Imperial Messenger by Belén Fernández, the thought of sharing a profession with Thomas Friedman revolts me, says EI reviewer David Cronin.

Shafiq al-Hout memoirs provide warts-and-all history of PLO

Asa Winstanley
1 November 2011
My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle, the memoirs of the late Shafiq al-Hout, is historically sweeping, politically critical and fascinating throughout.

Exhibition explores implementing right of return

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Tel Aviv
24 October 2011
A new exhibition reveals how the right of return for Palestinian refugees could be implemented.

Timely play grapples with abuse of a Palestinian prisoner

Jaime Omar Yassin
16 October 2011
The new play Ana Hurra (“I am free”) explores the experiences of a Palestinian prisoner and the Israeli interrogator who tortures her.

Gaza musicians find themselves confined to stag parties

Rami Almeghari
Gaza City
13 October 2011
Amidst the ongoing Israeli blockade and an increasingly conservative socio-political atmosphere, musicians in the Gaza Strip face a myriad of performance obstacles.

Film review: Can hip hop be "bigger than the occupation"?

Alexander Billet
29 September 2011
How can one expect any art to take root under Israeli occupation, let alone for a small delegation of artists, DJs and rappers to make any impact?

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