– Edward Said
The late Palestinian scholar, Edward Said, remarked that Palestinians had been denied permission to narrate their history and speak of the day-to-day experiences of life in the margins. Here, we reclaim that permission to narrate our own stories.
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The War Around Us is the true story of the only two international journalists on the ground in Gaza as Israel bombarded and invaded in 2008-9. Al Jazeera’s Cairo-born, Arab-American Ayman Mohyeldin and Arab-British Sherine Tadros reported from Gaza City throughout the devastating 22-day assault.
Marie, a Montreal publisher specializing in memoirs by war survivors, receives an anonymous document, the condensed story of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, she begins a search for the author and enlists the help of Joseph, a Lebanese man who is painting her office.
70,000 Palestinian books were systematically “collected” by the newly created State of Israel during the 1948 war. Today, about six thousand of the these books can be found on the shelves of the National Library, organized like a fossilized army of a dead Chinese emperor, accessible but lifeless, indexed with the label AP – Abandoned Property. This entirely unknown historical event came into light by chance; an Israeli PhD student – while researching in various state archives – stumbled upon documents from 1948-9 that mentioned “collecting books in Arabic from occupied territories.”
Artist Samia Zoghlami visits from Tunisia for her first exhibition in the U.S. Her art blends North African subject matter and sensibility with a creative vision that draws on modernist and contemporary artistic influences. Her images of musicians showcase the charms of Middle Eastern culture.
Jack Shaheen’s “TV Arab” studied the images of Arabs on television while Edmund Ghareeb’s “Split Vision” looked at news, print and broadcast media. At this panel event, the authors discuss the theses of their works 30 years later and how much has changed, if anything at all, about the images and portrayal of Arabs and Muslims in American mass media.
By Palestine Center
Last week, a new Palestinian Authority (PA) government was announced after a reconciliation agreement between the PLO and Hamas decided to establish a consensus government of independents and technocrats to pave the way for new elections.
1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees.
John Judis, author of “Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict” offers a fresh look at the critical Truman years, arguing that if we can understand how this stalemate in American policy originated, we will be better positioned to help end it.
By Yousef Munayyer
Last week I passed on to the New York Times some obvious questions that could lead to a scoop and it seems that they missed the opportunity. After two Palestinian kids were killed on Nakba Day, the New York Times had erroneously reported their ages. I contacted the relevant folks covering and editing these stories at the Times about the error and to their credit they eventually made the correction.
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