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Culture, Literature and the Arts

Salma Arraf-Baker

Palestinian Heritage … An Act of Resistance and a Battle for Existence

In the context of hegemony and occupation, the preservation of cultural heritage is at the heart of the national struggle due to its association with memory and its role as a tool of resistance against the obliteration and falsification of the history of the Palestinian people.

In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the Czech writer Milan Kundera says: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” If we consider this phrase, we find that

Vol. 25 No. 3&4 2020

Ofra Bloch

Filming the German and Palestinian "Other":The Making of AFTERWARD

Growing up in Israel after WWII, the air was saturated with the Holocaust, which I experienced as unrelenting hatred of Germans. I inhaled it, as one does oxygen, but could never exhale it until

Vol. 24 No. 3 2019

Recently Received Books and Publications

• Brynen, Rex and Roula El-Rifai eds., The Palestinian Refugee Problem: The Search for a Resolution. London: Pluto Press, 2014. The book brings together leading analysts, many of whom have been activ

Vol. 19 No. 3 2014

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

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