Life Behind Israel’s Checkpoints
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Every conflict has its heroes. In Palestine they’re the taxi drivers.
Palestinian-English artist Rosalind Nashashibi among nominees for prestigious Turner Prize 2017
At the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, Palestinians are peering through a towering border gate. What they’re looking at isn’t initially clear in Rosalind Nashashibi’s short film Electrical Gaza, but then, the 43-year-old British artist doesn’t deal in grand, obvious statements.
Ignore Donald Trump’s words on his foreign tour. Pay attention to his actions
Whatever words he utters, Trump has already shown that he will only continue a status quo legacy of violent American intervention in the Middle East.
Why Palestinians Resist
by Mohamed Mohamed
“Rights are not bestowed by an oppressor.” This statement in a New York Times op-ed by Marwan Barghouti, the imprisoned Palestinian political figure leading the latest prisoner hunger strike, is perhaps the core reason why Palestinians have engaged in various forms of resistance against Israel ever since the Nakba in 1948.
Israel’s Double Standard on Property Rights
By Mohamed Mohamed
For Israel, the crimes of the Nakba certainly did pay, to the detriment of the 750,000 Palestinian refugees of 1948 along with their descendants, who now add up to no less than seven million and are scattered across the world as a result. As the Jewish people pursue their lost property in Europe, Palestinians have an absolute right to do the same in historical Palestine.
A Palestinian cartoonist draws the Israeli occupation
For Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh, words matter. ‘Most people say the ‘Palestinian and Israeli conflict,” he says. ‘It’s not accurate. It’s not a conflict. It’s an occupation.’
When this Palestinian woman returned to her roots, everything changed
Hearing about injustice is one thing, seeing it happen right before your eyes is another. This is what businesswoman Farah Nabulsi learned when she decided to visit her home country, Palestine.
Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace
“The possibility of a lasting deal seems as far away as ever – and the history of failed negotiations suggests it’s largely because Israel prefers the status quo.”
Artists of the “Nakba Generation”
Artists reacted to the catastrophe of 1948 with paintings, graphics and sculptures incorporating memories of place and distance from homeland as a central theme. Artists of the “Nakba Generation” include the doyen Ismail Shammout, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Naji Al–Ali, Sophie Halaby, Kamal Bullata, and Samia Halabi, the latter two still working today. Next generation … Read more
