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Culture, Literature and the Arts

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

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

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