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How Berlin became the ‘capital city of Arab exile’
The Arab sociologist Amro Ali has illuminated Germany’s capital city as the center of an intellectual and artistic renaissance, fueled by Arab exiles from the authoritarian crackdowns that followed the 2011 uprisings. By Mati Shemoelof Berlin has become a magnet for political exiles from the Middle East in the years since the failed 2011 uprisings…
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October 17, 2019
Re-imagining a future by examining the past: Novels of love in Palestine
A trilogy of novels set in Palestine raises critical questions about the tension between identity and the desire to live. By Salsabeel Hamdan The Palace of Angels, Mohammed Massoud Morsi, Wild Dingo Press, 2019. In The Palace of Angels, his trilogy of novels set in Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, Australian-Egyptian novelist Mohammed Massoud Morsi places his…
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September 27, 2019
Palestinians are holding weddings, baptisms, burials in villages destroyed by Israel
Third-generation survivors of the Nakba are returning to the churches in the villages Israel destroyed in 1948 to hold religious ceremonies. By Suha Arraf Just over two weeks ago, Khaled Bisharat, son of famed journalist and author Odeh Bisharat, was married in a church in the village of Ma’alul. It was a wedding like any other, apart…
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July 30, 2019
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One Galilee pub shows that ‘economic peace’ is not enough
At Samim Bishara’s Kamun Pub in the northern town of Ma’alot-Tarshiha, Arabs and Jews can sit alongside each other to drink beer and eat pizza. But even in what might appear to be an oasis of coexistence, fundamental inequality is inescapable. By Steven Davidson Tarshiha is technically one of the few mixed, Jewish-Arab villages in all…
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June 4, 2018
Gaza’s protest leaders still believe in nonviolent struggle
Despite the bloodletting in Gaza over the past months, the leaders of the Great Return March believe that nonviolent resistance is still the best way to end the siege. Rami Younis spoke to Hasan al-Kurd, one of the leaders of the march about the successes, mistakes, and future of the movement. While everyone this past week focused on Israeli…
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Rami Younis
May 25, 2018
Why Israel’s Eurovision contestant became a target for BDS
Netta Barzilai is an impressive performer with an impressive act that Israelis can be proud to be represented by. But that’s not all she represents. Israel is buzzing with excitement over the country’s contestant in this year’s Eurovision, and for good reason. Netta Barzilai is talented, has an awesome vibe, and is a strong female…
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Orly Noy
May 8, 2018
The Palestinian teens in Israel who dream of their own Return March
Seventy years after its residents were turned into refugees, the descendants of Saffuriya, a Palestinian village in the north, are imagining what a life of real coexistence could look like alongside the Israeli Jews who have lived there since the Nakba.
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May 4, 2018
The new Jewish-Arab movement that plans to save the Israeli left
Standing Together, a new joint Arab-Jewish movement, is aiming to transform Israeli politics. It won’t be easy, but the Israeli left’s first step back to power might be believing that it can win again. The Israeli left is in the midst of an historic crisis. Out of power for over 20 years (with the exception…
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Joshua Leifer
April 9, 2018
The untold story of Jewish anti-Zionists in Israel
For nearly as long as Palestinians have resisted their displacement, small groups of Jews have joined them. Ran Greenstein’s ‘Zionism and Its Discontents’ brings to life the complex, often contradictory story of those Israelis who saw Palestinian and Jewish liberation as one and the same. Zionism and Its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine (Pluto…
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Joshua Leifer
April 8, 2018
COMIC: Festival of freedom? Not if you’re in Gaza, or a refugee in Israel
This Friday marks the start of Passover, known to many as the ‘festival of freedom.’ Not so much this year if you’re a Palestinian from Gaza, Ahed Tamimi, or one of the hundreds of African asylum seekers spending the holiday behind bars. By Noam Rabinovich
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March 28, 2018
Palestinian film festival seeks to challenge Israel’s cultural erasure
For the third straight year, local Palestinian as well as Arab filmmakers from across the world will be able to showcase their work in the Haifa Independent Film Festival. For the next six days, film lovers will flock to the north for the third annual Haifa Independent Film Festival, which will include both Palestinian films, as well as…
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Rami Younis
March 23, 2018
COMIC: A match made in heaven
By Noam Rabinovich
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March 13, 2018
WATCH: Tourism to the West Bank and the persistence of hope
Millions of tourists come to the West Bank every year, but Israel decides who can visit, and only a small fraction of the tourists ever stay in Palestinian hotels and guesthouses or use Palestinian guides. We visit a Palestinian guesthouse in Sebastia and hear how the owner, Ahmad, manages to remain optimistic.
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March 6, 2018
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