Jerusalem

Exhibition review: when lemons have more freedom than humans

Sarah Irving
9 July 2012
An exhibition at Amman’s Darat al Funun explores varying responses to decades of conflict in the Middle East, in which the Palestinian people have often played an involuntary and tragic role.

Drones provide backdrop to Bible-inspired play by Palestinian writer

Sarah Irving
6 June 2012
A new play takes a poetic, violent, poignant take on the Biblical story of Abraham.

Blair aide evades political reality in walking guide to West Bank

Sarah Irving
29 May 2012
A proper hiking guide to “off-the-beaten-track” routes in the West Bank offers excellent practical information but ignores the political reality that has changed Palestine’s physical landscape.

I'm a "lucky" Palestinian: instead of being jailed, I'm subjected to racial profiling

Yara Hawari
United Kingdom
29 May 2012
A Palestinian with Israeli citizenship says she is always subjected to racial profiling and humiliating “security checks” at the Tel Aviv airport.

"Every day I dream of returning home": a Nakba survivor speaks

Rami Almeghari
Rafah
24 May 2012
An elderly Palestinian woman in Gaza recalls being ethnically cleansed from her village in 1948.

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.

"We will not be silenced": Stop the Wall youth activist speaks on repression and resistance

Eoin O'Ceallaigh
17 May 2012
Hassan Kharajeh, a youth coordinator with Stop the Wall, on the role played by youth in the hunger strike demonstrations, and why they have Israel scared.

Palestinians assert right to return on Israeli "Independence Day"

Asa Winstanley
the Galilee
1 May 2012
Thousands of Palestinians marched to destroyed villages and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

The beautifully-paced rage of Mourid Barghouti's latest memoir

Sarah Irving
19 April 2012
Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is for anyone in your life who needs to understand the pain, the absurdity, the injustice, and the devastatingly predictable unpredictability of life for ordinary Palestinians.

Gaza's Christians like "birds who will always return to their nest"

Rami Almeghari
Gaza City
17 April 2012
Despite common media depictions of Gaza as being under harsh, Islamist rule, Gaza-based Palestinian Christians emphasize the close ties between families regardless of religion.

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