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Culture, Literature and the Ar..
Culture, Literature and the Arts
Bat-Chen Shahak
Poems on Jerusalem and Peace
It was her 15th birthday Her parents never knew that she was keeping a diary. Only after she was killed did they find these treasures, four diaries in all. As a tribute to Bat-Chen's legacy and will
Vol. 17 No. 1 2011
Christine Leuenberger
The West Bank Wall as Canvas: Art and Graffiti in Palestine/Israel
The philosopher John Austin has pointed out that we always do things with words. The terms we use to describe the West Bank barrier reveal our politics.1 For its Israeli proponents, it is the "securi
Vol. 17 No. 1 2011
Ghassan Kanafani
Returning to Haifa
Excerpts from the novella by the prominent Palestinian novelist.
We are publishing selected excerpts from Returning to Haifa, the important novella by Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani, as it appeared in the collection Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa an
Vol. 15 No. 2 2008
Etty Diamant
Return to Haifa Confronts Holocaust Victims with Palestinian Refugees
When I first told my mother about the suffering of the Palestinian refugees, she, who was a Holocaust survivor, used to say, "I keep my sighs to myself." In the play Return to Haifa, which is now bei
Vol. 15 No. 2 2008
Ibrahim Nasrallah
Palestinian Culture before the Nakba
There was a vibrant cultural life in Palestine before the Nakba.
In a reference to Walid Khalidi's book Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948, the French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique wrote: "We have all heard of 'a land wi
Vol. 15 No. 2 2008
Dialogue with Nadine Gordimer, South African Nobel Laureate for Literature
"The Beginning of Finding Solutions Is That Both Sides Have to Talk to One Another"
Nadine Gordimer in JerusalemExcerpts from a dialogue with South African Nobel Literature Prize winner, Nadine Gordimer, at the Jerusalem International Writers Conference on May 13, 2008. The dialogue
Vol. 15 No. 2 2008
Suad Amiry
A Dog’s Life
It was one of those rare moments when I could easily have killed someone. But to kill Dr. Hisham, the only vet in Ramallah (probably the only one in the whole district), would have been a national sc
Vol. 14 No. 4 2007
Samih AI-Qassem
Three Poems
End of a Talk with a Jailer From the narrow window of my small cell, I see trees that are smiling at me and rooftops crowded with my family. And windows weeping and praying for me. From the narrow wi
Vol. 14 No. 3 2007
Musa Al-Hindi
Sabra-Shatila: Resisting the Slaughter
Introduction This September Palestinians commemorated the 25th anniversary of the massacre of their people in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon. On September 15-18, 1982, more than 2,000
Vol. 14 No. 3 2007
Ali Qleibo
A City of Stone - A prose poem from his book Jerusalem in the Heart
Jerusalem has and continues to be the center of strife. The stones of Jerusalem's edifices have been carved of history. Palestine represents a point of intersection wherein numerous civilizations flo
Vol. 8 No. 1 2001
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