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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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Amidst a sometimes confusing barrage of news about the Middle East, Dr. Bernard Sabella, a Palestinian Christian, offers an enlightening, often humorous, personal narrative accompanied by reflections on lessons learned from his life in a conflict zone.
Yaser Murtaja had often filmed from the sky, but he never lived to fulfill his dream of flying on an airplane through the clouds. The young journalist shot drone images and video for Ain Media, a small Gaza-based news agency he started five years ago. Just two weeks ago, he posted an aerial photo of Gaza City’s port on Facebook. “I wish that the day would come to take this shot when I’m in the air and not on the ground,”
In an outrageous display of inhumanity, Israeli citizens reportedly gathered on Gaza border to watch their military kill Palestinian civilians. As violence continues to rage along the Israel-Gaza border, an Israeli reporter shared a photo that could only be described as inhumane.
Nadia Hijab, Executive Director of Al-Shabaka, with Zena Agha and Yara Hawari, Policy Fellows of Al Shabaka, discuss how reframing the narrative on Palestine could help further the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Yesterday, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) warned that the use of live fire by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian protesters in the occupied Gaza Strip could “constitute crimes under the Rome Statute”.
Lebanese artist Mouchid Kheir creates “bold geometric blocks and lines that intersect landscape and the abstract, containing intriguing perspectives passing the boundaries between representation and pure abstraction.”
Featuring work by the Palestinian Mission to the United Nations: 100 Names from Palestine to the World
Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son, presented his latest book about the Holy Land Foundation Five in which he discussed the miscarriages of justice involved with the case and the devastating effects the case had on the lives of the men convicted and their families.
In presenting his latest book, America’s Dream Palace, Osamah S. Khalil discussed the ways U.S. foreign policy has shaped the emergence of expertise (both through think tanks and academic studies) concerning the Middle East, a crucial, often turbulent, and misunderstood part of the world.
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