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The EI Extra section of the Electronic Intifada (EI), offers a quick window on the latest articles added to the Arts, Music & Culture, Bassaleh News Network, Multimedia, and Letters to EI feeds, and lists the categories found in the A-Z Index of EI’s BY TOPIC directory.

Diaries: Live from Palestine

Interview: Ex-prisoner reflects on friendship with Khader Adnan and his hunger strike for justice

Bekah Wolf
9 February 2012

Popular resistance leader Mousa Abu Maria shared an Israeli prison cell with Khader Adnan, now completing his 55th day of hunger strike. Abu Maria recalls Adnan’s leadership in organizing and educating prisoners in this interview for The Electronic Intifada.

Is 17-year-old girl Cast Lead's latest victim?

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
7 February 2012

Seventeen-year-old Haneen Abu Jalala died last month at an Israeli hospital from what her family says were complications from white phosphorous fired at their home three years ago.

Art, Music & Culture

Israel lobby's machinations on Iran probed in new book

Rod Such
21 February 2012

Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran is an exhaustive account of what happened to Obama’s campaign pledge towards Iran, particularly after the Israeli government and its lobby in the United States challenged the very notion of diplomacy.