Israel lobby fails to block screening of Palestinian film at Cannes
17 May 2016
Nasri Hajjaj’s unfinished film on 1972 Munich Olympics attack screened as planned, defying censorship calls.
Arts and Culture
Palestine film festival returns to Chicago
15 April 2016
Festival opens with The Idol, based on the true story of Gaza-born star Mohammad Assaf.
Words of Palestine's national poet on San Francisco buses
4 March 2016
Group running ads featuring Mahmoud Darwish’s poems has faced censorship in the past.
Rachel Corrie's family pays tribute to Alan Rickman
18 January 2016
Slain activist’s family recalls Rickman as “gifted, funny, generous, thoughtful, wise and courageous.”
Alan Rickman's Gaza play censored by theater staging David Bowie's "Lazarus"
15 January 2016
London-born cultural icons David Bowie and Alan Rickman died in the same week, at the same age, of the same disease. Both men would have had their work produced by the same New York theater if not for a notorious act of censorship in 2006.
Listen: New freedom song from Gaza
20 November 2015
Hip-hop duo Revolution Makers continue to make beautiful music.
Play focused on Gaza woman turns despair into hope
3 November 2015
Ahmed Masoud’s The Shroud Maker will premiere in London this month.
Painter Fouad Agbaria reclaims symbols of Palestine's survival
29 October 2015
First West Bank show of Palestinian painter celebrates beauty of landscape and Arabic script.
Harry Potter fans "heartbroken" as author urges engagement with Israel
26 October 2015
JK Rowling has been accused of following Margaret Thatcher’s approach of “constructive engagement” with apartheid states.
Palestine's Freedom Theatre coming to India
21 October 2015
Partnership with Indian performance group aims to unite the countries’ struggles for justice.