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?

Not Even the Dead Rest in Palestine

Israeli settlement plans threaten a monastery, green spaces, and even a cemetery.

Raja Shehadeh / 30 January, 2026

Raja Shehadeh offers a simple but impossible answer to this simple but impossible question: “And yet we must.”

Palestinian writer Nasser Abu Srour, finally free after 32 years in Israeli prisons, speaks to interviewer Rebecca Ruth Gould.

Jim Quilty / 30 January, 2026

Kamal Aljafari’s new-old film historicizes Gaza in its demise, from the erasure of ’48 Palestine moving forward until today.

Mark LeVine / 30 January, 2026

Edward Said remains a singular prophet and exemplar for everyone struggling for a world based on peace, justice, and mutual recognition.

Gabriel Polley / 30 January, 2026

Successive generations of Palestinian artists and writers have turned their people’s struggle into expression as vibrant as it is sorrowful.

Sholeh Wolpé / 30 January, 2026

Immediacy matters in this collection because it fundamentally alters how the poems should be read — not “about” war, but inside of it.

Esraa Abo Qamar / 30 January, 2026

Coffee, gas, warmth — basic things to many, but in Gaza, they become rarities.

Mariam Mushtaha / 30 January, 2026

A young writer reports that safe transportation remains dangerously scarce.

TMR / 30 January, 2026

What could be more central to any discussion of peace and justice than Palestinian freedom and sovereignty in our lifetimes?

يفقد الأب حيوانه الأليف القريب، فنتعرف على مدى ذلك القرب الذي يتجاوز المعتاد، قصة قصيرة رائعة لأحمد فؤاد الدين.