– 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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Ambassador Clovis Maksoud discusses the life and work of Hisham Sharabi, his dedication to precision, and also addresses how he believes Sharabi would view the current state of the question of Palestine and the broader Middle East today.
By Yousef Munayyer
Last week CNN stooped to a new low in coverage of Israel/Palestine. Wolf Blitzer, the former AIPAC employee turned host, decided to cover the deaths of two Palestinian teens in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. You’d think this is a step forward until you see how it was don
Sreemati Mitter, Ernest May Fellow at Harvard University, discusses the freezing of Palestinian bank accounts during the Nakba and use it as a prism through which to explore how the fact of statelessness, which is generally thought of as political condition, directly affects the economic and monetary lives of ordinary people.
By Yousef Munayyer
Dennis Ross has an op-ed in today’s New York Times on what the Obama administration should do regarding the Middle East “peace process.” The piece comes after news that “peace process” envoy Martin Indyk is packing up shop and two Palestinian children were killed by Israeli fire in demonstrations against the occupation.
By Yousef Munayyer
By Yousef Munayyer
Arab villages were destroyed. The state of Israel destroyed Arab villages.
Do you see the difference there? The first sentence is in the passive voice and absent of any agency. Who destroyed the villages? We are not told in the first sentence. All we are told is that the villages “were destroyed.” The second sentence does not suffer from this ambiguity. It makes clear who the active agent is, in this case, the state of Israel, and that it “destroyed Arab villages.”
Oud musician Fuad Foty has researched songs that made a difference in the Palestinian struggle from 1948 to the present. To commemorate Nakba Day, he takes us on a musical journey, playing the oud and singing lyrics from song writers and poets that date prior to 1948.
By Yousef Munayyer
You might be thinking what can the chalk outline of a body and some rural green landscape possibly have in common. The answer: these images both depict crime scenes. If that seems very obvious for the picture on the right, but not for the image on the left, that is precisely the point. A great deal of effort has gone into hiding the crime on the left.
By Yousef Munayyer
The state of Israel marked two holidays this past week that come in succession. One is Israeli memorial day, the other is Israeli “independence” day. Of course for Palestinians, including the 20 percent of Israel’s very population, these holidays are not seen the same way the state sees them. For Palestinians, Israeli “independence” day in particular marks the foundation of their plight.
Two important headlines emerged around this theme this week. One was the release of the iNakba app by Zochrot, an Israeli organization that works to document and remember the Nakba. The second was the mass rally of Palestinian citizens of Israel in Lubya, an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village.
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