The Problem with the Process
Yousef Munayyer: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are meeting again in Washington aiming to restart the often-attempted, never-successful process for peace—but it is the process itself that is the problem.
Visualizing a National Narrative: Art, Resistance, and the Consciousness of Exile
This panel features local Arab art experts for a discussion about art, resistance and exile. Art plays a unique role in shaping national consciousness and preserving Palestinian identity, serving to both inform and reflect national movements, from the Arab Spring to the Palestinian experience.
Failed Attempts to Return Home: Discrimination Against Palestinian-Americans at the Israeli Border
Nour Joudah and Sandra Tamari address the issues facing Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Americans as they attempt to return to Palestine. They discuss the discrimination that Americans of Arab and Muslim backgrounds face while entering Palestine, and highlight the illegal practices of Israeli border security in the treatment of Arab and Muslim Americans.
Nut Over Tahrir
Mona El-Bayoumi is an Egyptian-American artist residing in Washington D.C. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1962 and moved to the United States as a young child. Growing up in East Lansing, Michigan, in the 1970’s, El-Bayoumi was exposed to many human rights struggles around the world.
Combating Cynicism on Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Yousef Munayyer: “It’s never going to happen!” “They are just wasting their time.” “These talks are meaningless.” These are some of the most common responses when people who follow the Israeli-Palestinian issue are asked about the prospects for peace through negotiations. Call it cynicism if you will.
Why the Prawer Plan Is Just a Continuation of the Nakba
The Nakba is not a moment in time. The Nakba is an ongoing process. The Nakba is an experience of dispossession that transcends both time and space. Indeed the depopulation of Palestine of most of its native inhabitants from 1947-1949 did not merely become dispossession when an individual was forced from his home or his land. Rather, the dispossession became cemented when, after hostilities, a new state, the state of Israel, enforced this dispossession by…
Patterns of Exile: Palestinian Refugees and the War in Syria
In this panel discussion, Dr. Faedah Totah and Ms. Helena Cobban explore the impact of the war in Syria on Palestinian refugees, who have had a presence in the country since 1948.
Europe emerges from the ‘peace process’ dark age
Well, it’s finally happened. The European Union, Israel’s largest trading partner, has finally moved to leverage that relationship in the interest of changing Israel’s colonial behaviour. News broke yesterday of new guidelines for trade between the EU and Israel. The EU directive instructs “all 28 member states”, forbidding “any funding, cooperation, awarding of scholarships, research funds or prizes to anyone residing in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”
Sounds of the Qanun: Ali Amr Qanunist performs
Musical performance by Qanounist and vocalist Ali Amr and his colleagues Antoine Katz on the electric bass and Tareq Rantisi on percussion. Amr’s compositions contemplate Arabic & Jazz music while embracing different textures & styles within.
