28 April 2011
The 2011 London Palestine Flim Festival will open tomorrow, Friday, 29 April and will run through 11 May. The opening night will feature Zindeeq to be followed by a q & a with director Michel Khleifi and producer Omar Al-Qattan, chaired by Karma Nabulsi. Read more about London Palestine Film Festival opens tomorrow!
28 April 2011
You may recall that in January the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign had contracted with the local bus company to place ads calling for an end to aid to Israel on area public buses. However, under Zionist pressure, King County officials, responsible for the bus system, reneged on the contract and censored the ads before they appeared. This prompted the ACLU to sue the local authorities. Read more about Israel lobby strikes again as Seattle billboards are canceled?
28 April 2011
Elia’s Suleiman’s latest film The Time That Remains set in Nazareth after 1948 is as close to flawless as a film can be. Read more about Elia Suleiman's "The Time That Remains" is a masterpiece of cinema!
29 April 2011
Nidaa Khoury is a widely-known Palestinian poet with seven collections already published in Arabic and translated into multiple languages. Book of Sins is the first time her writing is available in English, and as such marks a significant accomplishment in the effort to bring Arab writers to an English audience. Read more about Poetry review: Plunging humanity's depths in "Book of Sins"
28 April 2011
Last week, Israeli forces raided the West Bank home of Suha Barghouti, arresting her husband, activist and writer Ahmad Qatamesh. Qatamesh was a political prisoner in the 1990s and was the longest-serving prisoner held without charge by Israel under administrative detention orders. Read more about Israel arrests writer, activist Ahmad Qatamesh, again
28 April 2011
EI’s Ali Abunimah, and youth leaders Lina Sharif in Gaza and Fadi Quran in the West Bank analyzed the Hamas-Fatah “unity” deal announced yesterday. The briefing was organized by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, and the guest host was Yousef Munayyer of the Palestine Center. Read more about Listen again: Lina Sharif, Fadi Quran, Ali Abunimah on Palestinian "unity" deal
28 April 2011
The notion that Spain’s government is more favorably disposed to the Palestinians than to the State of Israel falls apart under scrutiny. David Cronin analyzes for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Spain a bastion of support for Palestine?
27 April 2011
Earlier this month, activists with the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee scored an important victory in the cultural and academic boycott movement. Hip-hop artist Marvin Casey from Universal Beatz was disinvited to perform at Washington University in St. Louis, following revelations that his dance troupe is sponsored by the Jewish Agency for Israel. From their press release: Read more about Cultural boycott success in St. Louis
Gilboa Prison 27 April 2011
Palestinian Prisoners Day was marked on 17 April, an annual day to contemplate the individual and collective suffering and impossible pain of political prisoners and their families. Ameer Makhoul writes from Gilboa prison. Read more about Remembering Palestinian prisoners, renewing our struggle
27 April 2011
The London Palestine Film Festival, opening on 29 April, features thirty works ranging from documentary to fiction and animation. Four very different works typify the breadth of the program. Naira Antoun reviews for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about London festival expands view of films about Palestine