Tag "Palestine"
Back to homepage
34 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas
“Most of the literary representations of the massacres in two Palestinian refugee camps don’t aim to hold a mirror to the three days of horror, which took place in 1982, between September 16 and 18.”
Read More
Utopian and Dystopian Palestines: From Literature to Art and Back at the ‘Chapter 31’ Exhibition
“Chapter 31: A New Archaeology Of The Future”[1] is a new exhibition that tips its hat to Emile Habibi’s pioneering text The Secret Life of Saeed The Pessoptimist
Read More
Make Noise & Beauty on July 28, a Day of Creativity for Ashraf Fayadh
An open letter from poet-activist Mona Kareem and ArabLit editor M Lynx Qualey
Read More
A flicker of hope in the Middle East crisis
The purpose of the French initiative is to try and inject some life back into the process through a peace conference to be held toward the end of this year
Read More
US Tour of Palestinian Play ‘The Siege’ Cancelled
The Jenin Freedom Theatre announced that it will no longer bring The Siege to the US this May
Read More
Ashraf Fayadh’s Death Sentence Repealed; New Ruling Sentences Poet to 8 Years, 800 Lashes
Post Views: 45 The appeal of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh — who was facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia — was heard today: The higher court reversed the previous death-sentence ruling and replaced it with eight years, eight hundred
Read More
Gaza war cross-examined in Scottish courts
After a gruelling fourteen day trial, a group of activists known as the Thales Ten,* received their verdict in Glasgow Sheriff Court last week. Five were convicted, and five acquitted, of the crime of breach of the peace
Read More
Palestine Festival of Literature
Post Views: 70 The 2015 Palestine Festival of Literature, which opens this year on May 23, recently have announced its the names of participating authors and their meetings and readings, which includes events in six cities. Yesterday, organizers announced the
Read More
The destructive legacy of Arab liberals
Post Views: 45 by Joseph Massad, The Electronic Intifada It has become commonplace to present Arab Islamists of all political stripes (liberals, conservatives, radicals, neoliberals, moderates, extremists, nonviolent, violent, etc.) as a most, if not the most, dangerous political force in the
Read MorePalestine accession to Rome Statute and other international instruments 0
Last January 6th, United Nations Secretary General issued a note indicating that the Rome Statute, the treaty that establishes the International Criminal Court (ICC), will enter into force as to the State of Palestine on April 1st , 2015
Read More