Susan Abulhawa reviews Mohammad el-Kurd’s stunning debut poetry collection, Rifqa: “Letting my eyes sweep over lines just once wasn’t nearly enough to take in the unbearable beauty of this book. The words that Mohammad assembles in his poems aren’t pulled from books or dictionaries. They are snatched from clouds, excised from his bones, excavated from Jerusalem’s fabled tales and the inscriptions on her storied stones, plucked from the creases in tank treads and history’s smoke.”
Netflix has added 32 Palestinian films to its streaming service. Pro-Israel groups have attacked the move because many of the directors support BDS.
Ghada Hania was raised in the UAE on bedtime stories of Palestine from her mother, but when she moved to Gaza at the age of 12, reality clashed with the idealized version of homeland in her head.
Kevin Hadduck had never met a Palestinian until five years ago when a student studying Latin walked into his office. This chance encounter led to Hadduck’s “Beloved Brother, Beloved Sister,” a book of poems from voices in Gaza.
Haidar Eid performs the Simsimiyya as part of a collection of resistance songs from around the Arab World.
Eleven years ago filmmaker Udi Aloni moved to the Jenin refugee camp to work at the Jenin Freedom Theater. During that time he lived in Zakaria Zubeidi’s house. Here, Aloni recalls several stories from him time with Zubeidi on the nature of art and resistance.
New anthology shares the common experiences, and joint struggle, shared by Palestinian and Irish hunger strikers.
Maqlouba, musafan, and somaqiya. Ziad Ali shares three recipes from friends, collecting oral histories behind the carefully curated spices and mixtures of Palestinian heritage cooking.
The only sustainable way forward is to engage in the “decolonization” of Greater Israel. What comes next remains an open question.