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22 March 2011
Rula Jebreal on the struggle to make and show the film based on her book Miral and the tumultuous real-life experiences behind the story. Read more about Interview: Rula Jebreal on the struggle to make "Miral" a film
25 March 2011
Robin Myers and Shadi Rohana speak with professor Sharif Kanaana in his office about Palestinian identity and the local and global significance of folklore itself. Read more about Interview: Sharif Kanaana on Palestinian folklore and identity
24 February 2011
With style gurus and editors reveling in another pageant of new creations flaunted at London Fashion Week, a talented young Palestinian is bucking the trend with his own captivatingly unconventional designs. Read more about Palestinian fashion designer's uncompromising debut
17 February 2011
One year after Hampshire College in Massachusetts became the first university to divest from the Israeli occupation, student Will Delphia was hard at work completing a short documentary film exploring the events surrounding the historic decision. Read more about Film review: Hampshire's divestment victory documented
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"
26 January 2011
Ronit Lentin is an Israeli-born academic and novelist now based in Ireland, where she teaches sociology at Trinity College, Dublin. She describes her latest book, Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba, as “a reflection on the contested relations between commemoration and appropriation from the standpoint of a member of the perpetrators’ collectivity, whose politics align her with the colonized.” Read more about Book review: From mourning to mobilization
13 January 2011
Although As’ad Ghanem’s new book Palestinian Politics after Arafat: A Failed National Movement focuses on the post-Arafat era, the dead leader permeates the pages and his legacy hangs like a specter over the Palestinian body politic. Read more about Book review: Arafat's ghost and the Palestinian national movement
10 January 2011
The Electronic Intifada contributor Arwa Aburawa interviews Gilbert Achcar about his latest book, The Arabs and the Holocaust. Read more about The Holocaust, Palestine and the Arab World: Gilbert Achcar interviewed
30 December 2010
David Cronin’s immensely valuable new book, Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation, charts how the European Union and its member states back Israel, and dispels the idea that the US is the only game in town (and that those of us who aren’t resident there can therefore change nothing), while also offering activists new targets for institutional lobbying and boycotts. Read more about Book Review: Europe's Alliance with Israel
28 December 2010
Many Americans think anti-Arab sentiment in the United States began after 11 September 2001. Others think Arabs are recent immigrants to America. Some think the Arab community has kept to itself, not participating in struggles like the civil rights and labor movements. Alia Malek’s A Country Called Amreeka is a welcome corrective to these mistaken notions. Read more about Book review: correcting mistaken notions on Arabs in America