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Culture, Literature and the Arts

Rim Banna

Revelation of Love and Rebellion

Rim Banna (8 December 1966 – 24 March 2018) was a notable Palestinian singer, composer, arranger, and activist who was most known for her modern interpretations of traditional Palestinian songs and po

Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 2022

Rachel Tzvia Back

SUMMER VARIATIONS

Summer ('13) In the north they are busy now slaughtering each other, there’s no time for flowers – But scalding summer is almost past, autumn will arrive unnoticed. 

Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 2022

Leah Goldberg

Illuminations

The title of the poem is in English also in the original Hebrew poem. In the poem Goldberg expresses her feelings as a stranger to the country, occurring also in some of her other poems, here demonstr

Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 2022

Abdallah Radwan

The Fall

Your voice, sweet as the river’s, is asking, “Why do you circle around me, then leave?” I exclaim: “Here are your eyes, paving for my eyes a road to knowledge. Down with Knowl

Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 2022

Lisa Suhair Majaj

Jerusalem Song

Your walls fold gently, a wingspan embracing the dreaming city.Your air drifts with the odor of incense, women’s voices floating upwards, a twist of prayer toward heaven’s ear.I ho

Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 2022

Heidi Basch-Harod

The Power of Film to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence

Film employs the most powerful weapon that we as a human race have to protect ourselves against self-inflicted destruction. That weapon is empathy.

I want to tell you a story. It is a warm August evening in Southern California. You are sitting with me in a high-ceilinged art gallery at the southern end of a palm-tree lined Lincoln Boulevard in Ve

Vol. 26 No. 1&2 2021

Mai Sayigh

Elegy for Imm ‘Ali

Palestinian Poetry

Elegy for Imm ‘Ali1Don’t go away! Across the distances you kindle our fires, deliver joy, ignite our dreams Leaving was never your style; you were always about to arrive Now t

Vol. 25 No. 3&4 2020

Mohammad al-As’ad

A Song

Palestinian Poetry

A Song1When we remember things One string rings out. Women alone Plays on all the strings With one stroke Because she is the entire homeland._____________________________1 Jay

Vol. 25 No. 3&4 2020

Tamar Hess

First Person, Identification, and Collective Guilt in Israeli Women's Poetry

The murder of the Dawabsheh family in an arson attack perpetrated by a Jewish terrorist (Duma, July 31, 2015) stirred widespread reactions of horror. Several Hebrew poems were published in the afterma

Vol. 25 No. 3&4 2020

Rita Mendes-Flohr

Art and Activism: Dilemma, Dialectic, Duet?

As the talk about Israel’s intended annexation of Area C in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) was being overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis, the de facto efforts to minimize the number of Pa

Vol. 25 No. 3&4 2020

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