Gaza’s vibrant culinary traditions are being warped by the Israeli blockade, and the seafood that used to be the product of cultural exchange across the Mediterranean is now changing to adapt to Israeli restrictions.
In this animated short, Leila Warah tells the story of her family, who was forced out of their village, Deir Aban, during the Nakba. Leila’s story of exile and denial from her homeland is shared by millions of Palestinian refugees.
75 years after their displacement, refugees in Gaza are preserving their cultural heritage through folklore and song. These songs tell a story of resistance and longing for Palestine.
Nakba is 75 years of what is happening to us, not what happened.
Nothing remains. But in the traces– Everything remains.
Complicated themes of exile, marginalization, death, and history recur throughout (post)colonial fiction. It is no surprise that Palestinian students in Gaza connect with them on a personal level.
The Palestine Museum US in Woodbridge, CT is challenging the Zionist-Israeli narrative in the United States by telling the Palestinian story through the arts.
Isabella Hammad’s new novel, “Enter Ghost,” uses theater and the lives of Palestinians in the diaspora to uncover the relationship between culture and politics, colonialism and self-determination, and love and freedom.
Jonathan Ofir interviews Israeli playwright Einat Weizman about her play “Prisoners of the Occupation” and how theater can become a vehicle for political mobilization and change.
“Once you see behind the veil of security, of law, of order,” co-producer Joshua Vis says in the film, “you cannot unsee what lies there. You cannot unsee the ugliness of oppression on the Palestinian people.”
The wait is over for a brilliant, comprehensive account of the last two decades in Iraq. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written a masterpiece.