This Year in Venice, it’s the “Palestine Biennale”
At this year’s Venice Biennale, Palestine looms large, writes Hadani Ditmars.
At this year’s Venice Biennale, Palestine looms large, writes Hadani Ditmars.
Hadani Ditmars reports on the calls to shut down the Israeli pavilion in the Venice Biennale, and a possible widespread artist boycott.
Hadani Ditmars reports on a legendary Palestinian theatre in Jenin that has nine lives and gives hope to the refugee camp's youth.
Hadani Ditmars, fresh from a return trip to Iraq, surveys the burgeoning plastic arts scene.
Our columnist compares Arab/Muslim and Jewish humor and finds more in common than one might expect.
Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria and Turkey are shared homelands.
Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Egypt.
October marks the second anniversary of Iraq’s thawra. The non-violent Tishreen movement continues to demand all the things many of us take for granted. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have marched in cities across the country. Notes Beau Beausoleil, editor of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here anthology, “Those marching are…
Hadani Ditmars The commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 unfolds in televisual real time and yet with a strange sense of suspended animation, as if we’re on a slow motion merry go round that we can’t get off. It’s not just that feeling of déjà vu all over again as…
On the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Hadani Ditmars remembers the treasures and the ruins of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Hadani Ditmars reviews the new tome from Terreform and AUC Press that gives Gazans hope for a better future, if they can build it.
Hadani Ditmars remembers what Baghdad was like following the second Gulf War in 2003, when she toured Abu Ghraib with Robert Fisk.