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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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COMIC: Evenings at the Netanyahu residence these days
Corruption scandal after corruption scandal are thinning out the prime minister’s Rolodex. By Noam Rabinovich
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February 28, 2018
For Gaza youth, IDF testimonies feel more like confessions
Palestinian youth respond to a play based on testimonies by Israeli soldiers, which portrays the brutality of the occupation from the point of view of the occupiers. By Pam Bailey The video above is a production called “It’s What We Do: A Play About the Occupation.” Although it is a drama, the soldiers’ reflections in…
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February 23, 2018
What do south Tel Aviv’s residents really think about asylum seekers?
The media tends to stereotype the Mizrahi residents of south Tel Aviv as angry xenophobes whose problems will be solved with the deportation of African asylum seekers from their neighborhoods. But the truth is far more complicated.
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February 8, 2018
‘Scroll down for more horrors’
By Noam Rabinovich
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January 24, 2018
Social media giants feel the heat at Palestinian digital conference
At the Palestine Digital Activism Forum, representatives from both Google and Facebook faced a crowd that demanded to know why the two companies cooperate with Israel’s attempts at silencing Palestinians. Not long after the Arab Spring began, social media companies rushed to embrace the popular narrative that their platforms had the potential to change societies and reform…
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Joshua Leifer
January 18, 2018
Between Ramle and Me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates in Hebrew
Three activists, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, an Ethiopian Israeli, and a veteran Mizrahi organizer discuss the applicability of Ta-Nehesi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ to their struggles in Israel. The killing of black men by police in the United States has, over much of the past half-decade, thrust the issue of American racism back into the…
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Edo Konrad
January 15, 2018
Living among the dead in Gaza
I asked a man who lives among the graves in Gaza how he could bear to live among the dead. He challenged me. ‘How is living among the dead is worse than living among the living?’ By Mohammed Arafat When I was a child, I used to pass by the Ma’madany [“Baptist”] graveyard in Gaza…
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January 15, 2018
COMIC: How the West Bank was won
By Noam Rabinovich
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January 12, 2018
The impossible return home
Our trip back to Israel-Palestine, the first since my daughter’s birth, was also the first time our family would be separated. The Israeli border, the crossing to the place where her father and I met and fell in love, would be the first thing to come between us. I didn’t get a haircut in 2017 and it’s…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
January 4, 2018
‘There’s no such thing as a feminist name-change’
When I reverted my surname back to my maiden name, apparently the Interior Ministry decided I was getting divorced. How do you prove that you’re not getting divorced? My own personal brush with Kafka. I went to the Interior Ministry office in Beit Shemesh to get a passport issued for my adolescent son last week.…
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Samah Salaime
January 2, 2018
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