A Response to “Gaza: Mowing the Lawn” 2014-15
California poet and activist Tony Litwinko reacts to the painted images in "Gaza: Mowing the Lawn" from Jaime Scholnick.
TMR 11 • GAZA
The Markaz Review published a special double issue devoted to Gaza when yet again, as with the current conflagration, in the summer of 2021, Israel pounded the Strip with bombs, attacking Hamas and wiping out civilians in the process.
For our 11th monthly issue TMR features the work of the artist Jaime Scholnick and her series Gaza: Mowing the Lawn.
“Gaza: Mowing the Lawn” by Artist Jaime Scholnick
Art critic Sagi Refael reviews painted images from the 2014 Gaza war that he calls "one of the most significant politically-charged art series of recent years."
Sailing to Gaza to Break the Siege
One of the cofounders of the Free Gaza movement to break the siege of Gaza, Greta Berlin, tells the story of their first sea voyage.
In Retrospect: An American Educator in Gaza
A native Californian of Arab heritage finds herself returning to Gaza again and again to teach promising students at Al Azhar University.
Review: Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope
Hadani Ditmars reviews the new tome from Terreform and AUC Press that gives Gazans hope for a better future, if they can build it.
Gaza’s Catch-22s
Khaled Diab, author of Intimate Enemies: Living with Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land, meditates on the implacable illogic of the Gaza-Israel stalemate.