Cairo 29 January 2011
Following Friday prayers on January 28 we joined protesters marching through the streets of Imbaba in Cairo, Egypt. The crowd of 100 that we joined kept increasing and continuously joined with other marches in the same quarter North West of downtown Cairo. Read more about Video: Mass uprising in Cairo's Imbaba neighborhood
29 January 2011
We are in the middle of a political earthquake in the Arab world and the ground has still not stopped shaking. To make predictions when events are so fluid is risky, but there is no doubt that the uprising in Egypt — however it ends — will have a dramatic impact across the region and within Palestine. Read more about Egypt's uprising and its implications for Palestine
Gaza Strip 29 January 2011
As news of the uprisings in a growing number of Arab countries spread like wildfire around the world, residents of other countries struggling under their own oppressive governments and soaring unemployment were celebrating on the streets, on Twitter and on Facebook. The occupied Gaza Strip was no exception. Read more about Palestinians in Gaza react to Egypt, Tunisia uprisings
5 February 2011
An advertisement from the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism which ran in National Geographic’s Traveller magazine has resulted in more than sixty complaints being lodged with the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and is now under investigation. Read more about Visit Palestine
28 January 2011
CAIRO (IPS) - Twitter was an early casualty. Then Facebook access became spotty. But when the Internet itself went down, Egyptian pro-democracy activists knew their protests were having an effect. Read more about Mubarak regime shuts down Internet in futile attempt to stop protests
28 January 2011
CAIRO (IPS) - Tear gas and smoke wafted through the air of the Egyptian capital on Friday as police moved swiftly to disperse anti-government demonstrations throughout the city. Read more about Egypt protesters defy curfew despite brutal repression
27 January 2011
Among some of the latest Palestine Papers revelations are agreements to push the United Nations Human Rights Council to delay a vote on the Goldstone report, the fact-finding probe of alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s winter 2008-09 attacks on the Gaza Strip. Read more about PA undermined accountability for Gaza victims, papers reveal
27 January 2011
An initial reading of the Palestine Papers provides details of hitherto unknown secret, high-level “Quadripartite” meetings among Israeli, American, Egyptian and Palestinian officials whose explicit goal appears to have been to undermine the Palestinian national unity government. Read more about The Palestine Papers and the "Gaza coup"
2 February 2011
“This is what it means to be Palestinian, to care, because if you stop caring, then you let go. We cannot let go” explains Jerusalemite Samia Nasser Khoury in Dina Matar’s landmark new book, What it Means to be Palestinian. Read more about Book review: Rich definition of "What it Means to be Palestinian"
27 January 2011
CAIRO (IPS) - Demonstrations calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt continued for the second day in several Egyptian cities with police cracking down violently, a development that many analysts here say reflects the nervousness of the regime. Read more about Demonstrators call for Mubarak's ouster