– 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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Summer in Washington, D.C., offers many changes—many people leave town, while summer interns arrive, to say nothing of tourists! But for those staying in the city, there are a lot of events on offer to make summer interesting, including here at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery.
Yousef Munayyer: I’m a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away in Massachusetts, where we attended neighboring colleges.
Mona El Bayoumi, born in Alexandria, Egypt, had tremendous exposure to issues of social justice around the world and in the United States, and it is these themes that permeate and guide her work as an artist.
Yousef Munayyer: To understand why the mass Palestinian hunger strike is so important, it helps to remember the first moments of the Arab Spring.
Yousef Munayyer: Israel is isolating its Arab citizens, despite its claims to democracy.
Dr. Walt addresses the pressure on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East from the Israel lobby and the real and perceived effects it has had on decisions throughout the current and past presidential administrations.
Yousef Munayyer: Last week in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Nakba activists group Zochrot (“Remembering” in Hebrew) attempted to recite the names of depopulated Palestinian towns at Israel’s Independence Day celebration. They were repressed.
Yousef Munayyer: In her piece “Zionism Denial,” Member of Knesset Einat Wilf rightly argues that Zionism, and not the Holocaust, led to the creation of the modern state of Israel. But in the process of making her argument she significantly distorts the history of Zionism.
“FROM THERE” is a portfolio of memories by Palestinian artist Manal Deeb in an attempt to interpret the known versus the unknown of finding home, self, identity, and the challenge it presents in the creation of art.
Through educational events, humanitarian support, and cultural preservation, the Jerusalem Fund is helping build the movement for Palestinian liberation.
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