Making a Film in Gaza
The screenwriter and would-be director of Gaza Airport recounts her struggle to make a feature film in Gaza.
Essays
Gaza IS Palestine
Jenine Abboushi recalls family histories and lifelong friendships linking Gaza with Ramallah, Jenin and Jerusalem.
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.
Vitamin W: The Power of Wasta Squared
In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old country.
Syria’s Ruling Elite— A Master Class in Wasta
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in a country decimated by a decade of war.
The Wall We Can’t Tell You About
There are some walls we can't discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.
The Wall We Can’t Tell You About
There are some walls we can’t discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.
The Bathing Partition
In this creative exploration of identity and homelessness, Sheana Ochoa faces her own inner walls and travels to Auschwitz.
The Labyrinth of Memory
Critic Ziad Suidan meditates on the meaning of the labyrinth and the walls that can separate us but also remind us of our shared history inside the hammam.
Panopticon of Kashmir
Ifat Gazia remembers her native Kashmir and wonders why her family, like countless others, was uprooted, displaced and forced to live like homeless people in their own land.
Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?
Taylor Miller explores the aesthetics of gentrification and the "settler colonial hydra that continually displaces, erases, and reinscribes Palestinian space."
Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in
Muralist Francisco Letelier travels to the West Bank to help a Palestinian community confront the Occupation with art.