Maya Wind’s new book meticulously demonstrates how Israeli academic institutions were created to serve the Zionist colonization of Palestine. They continue to do so to this day while fueling Israel’s university-military-industrial complex.
Solidarity through music. That is what the new song “Palestinian-South African Ballad of Love” is all about.
Mustafa al-Kurd left an indelible mark on Palestine’s genre of “committed singing,” contributing to the music of the First Intifada through his “Give Me the Plow and Sickle,” among other classics.
The Palestinian people practice resistance through “sumud” and steadfastness in every aspect of their lives, including in music. After October 7, Palestinian music can serve as the moral compass pointing toward decolonization.
Food is central to the movement for Palestinian liberation, because food is central to history, identity, and life.
Yahya al-Sinwar’s autobiographical quasi-novel “Thorns and Carnations” shows the Hamas leader has lived a life focused on faith and an obsessive project to build an infrastructure of resistance in Gaza.
Susan Muaddi Darraj’s communal story-telling weaves together the themes of the inheritance of exile between generations and the fragmentation of Palestinian lives across homeland and the diaspora.