The objective of the new film “October 8” is not to impart information but to cause panic— a panic the filmmakers hope will lead viewers to support the violent crackdowns on student Palestine activists that we are seeing across the U.S. right now.
Palestinian refugee camps are known for producing resistance fighters and footballers. But Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza and the West Bank is erasing every aspect of Palestinian life, including sports.
Liz Rose Shulman’s new book, Good Jewish Girl: A Jerusalem Love Story Gone Bad, provides a close-up view of one American Jew’s “perverse initiation into Zionism” and why these indoctrination efforts fail.
Renowned Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer was Reem Hamadaqa’s professor and close mentor. She writes of his posthumous book If I Must Die, “Alareer’s poems embody the essence of resistance, grief, steadfastness—sumud—and storytelling as survival.”
Abdaljawad Omar interviews Mohammed El-Kurd about his new book, the struggle of narrating Palestinian resistance without dilution, and the contradictions of writing for an audience one refuses to appease.
Chef Fadi Kattan’s new Toronto restaurant, Louf, offers creative haute cuisine from Palestine and has ambitions that go far beyond serving food.
The new London theater production “Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art” takes direct aim at the British government’s campaign to stifle free speech and activism on Palestine.
What comes after the supremacism and apartheid of Zionism? Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s substantial new work, The Jewellers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World, looks to dormant histories for visions of justice and repair.
In a year of overlapping genocides in Palestine, Sudan, Congo and Tigray Solange’s Eldorado Ballroom concerts allowed the audience a much-needed space to process, shout, and cry out to God, in community.
Walid Daqqah’s writings were fundamentally linked to a deep-seated worry about the future. While he mourns our collective Palestinian condition, Daqqa also reminds us that the future carries hope.