Following October 7, “The Zone of Interest,” about a family of Nazis living right against the walls of Auschwitz, is the most relevant film in the world right now.
It has been a week now since that Israeli shrapnel killed you. I promise I will never stop writing to you. I promise I will never stop sending greetings to you. I promise I will never make peace with any of them, Mohammad.
Over 20 filmmakers have withdrawn from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam over the festival’s condemnation of liberatory Palestinian speech and a refusal to take a stand against Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza.
Rabab Abdulhadi on receiving the ASA’s Angela Y. Davis Award for Outstanding Public Scholarship: “Inaction is not an option. We must place the voices and liberation of Palestine and all oppressed at the center of our scholarship, pedagogy and advocacy.”
Like pieces of your heart will forever be in more places than one. Always in search of another Palestinian to ask, “where are you from?”
Let’s not try to apply logic to the Gaza wound and call ourselves a civilized world. I condemn all language now. That’s what I condemn. The only word that matters now: is “Gaza!”
“Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?” This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
Abdelfattah Abusrour shares two poems from Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem inspired by hosting Palestinian workers from Gaza stuck in the West Bank during Israel’s latest onslaught.
Doaa Alremeili is constantly searching for any news she can of her family in Gaza. Any relief she finds regarding their safety is fleeting.