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Culture, Literature and the Arts

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

Mahmoud Darwish

Henceforth You Are Some Other

Did we have to fall from such heights, and to see our blood on our hands… to realize that we are no angels… as we used to believe? And did we also have to reveal our flaws to the world so that our tr

Vol. 14 No. 2 2007

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