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Palestinian poet, translator win prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize

Ghassan Zaqtan was nearly prevented from receiving award when Canada initially refused to issue him visa.

Imagining Palestine through PalFest

The Palestine Festival of Literature was very much about feeling and thinking deeply about Palestine, about ourselves, and surroundings in the context of home from a literary rather than a rigid political eye.

Video: Rare public hip-hop performance in Gaza City

Hip-hop is not new to Gaza, but in recent years public performances have been nonexistent. But last week Gaza rappers Revolution Makers and Antara broke that silence with a rare public performance at the Palestine Festival of Literature.

Hany Abu-Assad's "Omar" awarded at Cannes festival

Condom Lead by Gaza-born twins Tarzan and Arab also selected for short film competition.

WATCH: Remi Kanazi's new poem, "Nakba," about his grandmother's expulsion in 1948

Remi Kanazi’s intimate poem honors his grandmother, who was forcibly displaced from her home in Palestine during the 1948 Nakba.

Looking inward at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival

This year’s festival featured work by filmmakers asking questions for their own community.

Honoring Palestinian history: filmmaker Annemarie Jacir on "When I Saw You"

Annemarie Jacir on honoring the fedayeen who believed return to Palestine was a possibility.

Palestine film festivals to open in Chicago and London, plus other cinema news

Paradise Now director Hany Abu-Assad’s new film selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

Listen! New music from Palestinian hip hop legends DAM as they kick off US tour

“New melodies and rhythms that in our minds go beyond what is expected of traditional hip-hop.”

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