– 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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Brad Parker & Ivan Karakashian of DCI – Palestine discuss how Palestinian children are affected by Israel’s prolonged military occupation of the West Bank. They focus on the widespread and systematic ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention, 75 percent of whom experience some form of physical violence.
Yousef Munayyer: It is farcical to talk about the impending death of the two-state solution – it’s been long dead and decomposing before our eyes, yet few have had the common decency to bury it.
Writer and political analyst Josh Ruebner charts Obama’s journey from optimism to frustration in the first hard-hitting investigation into why the president failed to make any progress on this critical issue, and how his unwillingness to challenge the Israel lobby has shattered hopes for peace.
Twenty years to the week since the signing of the Oslo Accords, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti explains what went wrong and what lessons must be learned as negotiations continue today.
A performance by renowned traditional folkloric society Al Hannouneh in Alexandria, VA as part of an eight city tour across the United States
Video of performance by Al Hannouneh Society for Popular Culture at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall in Alexandria, VA. Specializing in dramatic choreography, music and dabke dance, Al Hannouneh preserves Palestinian culture and identity through artistic expression.
Join us for this exhibition featuring 39 artists from around the world who have created 64 artworks that examine the shared historical and contemporary paths of three cultures: Palestinian, Native American and Irish.
Yousef Munayyer: 16,875 days of military occupation. Each day has its own story, its own victims, and its own loss. Day upon day, however, it can all blur together and become commonplace.
Yousef Munayyer: The most central and persistent theme is the construction of illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. During intifadas, not during intifadas, during peace talks, not during peace talks, it didn’t matter. For the Israelis, every year was a good year to build more settlements.
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