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Culture, Literature and the Ar..
Culture, Literature and the Arts
The Poet’s Struggle
Poems by: David Barbi , Adi Tishrai, Amir Or, Lital Michaeli, Raanan Ben-Tovim, Miya Shem-Ur, Gili Haimovich, Oded Hon, Mati Shemoelof
David Barbi Tul-Karem Mother told me that at three years old I asked Why can't we visit the houses yonder? After the war When I entered I did not understand Today also after fifty years As a three y
Vol. 18 No. 4 2013
Basem el-Nabres
“Prayer” and Other Selected Poems
Prayer I say my prayers only when near her, if water has mingled with water and love's splash has spread over the bed. I say my prayers only when near her, when she has risen from an ecstasy, her gra
Vol. 18 No. 4 2013
Alon Liel
Chapters on South African civil society from his book “Equalizer: Building the New South Africa”
The following passages are excerpted from Sha'ar Shivayon (Equalizer), his book about South Africa 20 years after the collapse of Apartheid, published in Hebrew by Hakibbutz Hameuchad-Sifriat Poalim
Vol. 18 No. 2 2012
Annonymous.Activist.Artists (A.A.A.)
Left/Expelled Project
Annonymous.Activist.Artists (A.A.A.) is a group of activist artists, Jews and Arabs, from various parts of Israel. Through our work we seek to raise awareness about the troubling phenomenon of extrem
Vol. 17 No. 1 2011
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
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