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PALESTINE
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- Editorial
Why PALESTINE?
What could be more central to any discussion of peace and justice than Palestinian freedom and sovereignty in our lifetimes?
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- Interviews
Prison and the Writer: Interview with Palestinian Nasser Abu Srour
Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, finally free after 32 years in Israeli prisons, speaks to interviewer Rebecca Ruth Gould.
30 January 2026 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould- TMR
- Art
Behind the Seen: Mona Hatoum on Art and Palestine
Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum keeps returning to the same questions: How is space regulated, surveilled, and colonized? And what remains concealed?
30 January 2026 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansMORE FROM THIS ISSUE
How Can Palestinians and Israelis Live Together?
Raja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: "And yet we must."
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY RAJA SHEHADEH
Edward Said: Prophet, Symphonist, Exemplar
Edward Said remains a singular prophet and exemplar for everyone struggling for a world based on peace, justice, and mutual recognition.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY MARK LEVINE
“Tiny Suns”—a short story
Danger looms over this story, set in pre-Nakba Palestine, about a protective mother and her young son.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY SAHAR MUSTAFAH
Not Even the Dead Rest in Palestine
Israeli settlement plans in and around Bethlehem threaten a centuries-old monastery, green spaces, and even a cemetery.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY A MOM FROM BETHLEHEM
In Two New Books, Palestinian Writing Bears Witness
Successive generations of Palestinian artists and writers have turned their people’s struggle into expression as vibrant as it is sorrowful.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY GABRIEL POLLEY
Letter from Gaza: Our Long Wait for Gas
Coffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities, and blessings.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY ESRAA ABO QAMAR
You Must Live: A Collection of Palestinian Poetry
Immediacy matters in this collection because it fundamentally alters how the poems should be read — not "about" war, but inside of it.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY SHOLEH WOLPé
Jewish Supremacy and the Making of Genocide in Gaza
Ono explores the dissonance of a reality in which many feel like they in fact need protection from Israel.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY SHERYL ONO
Notable and Forthcoming Books Centered on Palestine
A diverse selection of forthcoming and noteworthy books that shed light on Palestine from multiple perspectives, highlighting resilience.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY RANA ASFOUR
With Hasan in Gaza: Salvaged Palestine
Kamal Aljafari's new-old film historicizes Gaza in its demise, from the erasure of ’48 Palestine moving forward until today.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY JIM QUILTY
Letter from Gaza: Stuck in Place
A young writer in Gaza reports that, despite the ceasefire, safe transportation remains scarce, and a matter of life and death.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY MARIAM MUSHTAHA
Omar El Akkad on the Genocide, a Bulaq Interview
This podcast discusses the Omar El Akkad’s critique of Western liberalism and the possibilities for a different future.
30 JANUARY 2026 • BY TMR