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Jerusalem

15 June, 2022 • TMR

Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine

The artist and writer from Palestine has a universal vision to bring people together across boundaries and borders.

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15 June, 2022 • Sulafa Zidani

Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”

Riding the bus down memory lane, a Palestinian American scholar of digital culture at MIT recalls her time in Jerusalem and Haifa.

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15 June, 2022 • Steve Sabella

Steve Sabella: Excerpts from “The Parachute Paradox”

In these stories from his impassioned memoir, Steve Sabella works to decolonize the mind and liberate his identity.

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15 May, 2022 • Jenine Abboushi

We, Palestinian Israelis

Jenine Abboushi finds that only as Israeli citizens can Palestinians "min el-dakhil" fight for equal rights.

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15 May, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

Palestinian Filmmaker, Israeli Passport

Jordan Elgrably talks to Palestinian filmmakers with Israeli citizenship to learn about identity and belonging.

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15 April, 2022 • Fadi Kattan

Ma’moul: Toward a Philosophy of Food

Bethlehem chef and writer Fadi Kattan muses on the philosophy of food and faith, choosing local tradition over religion.

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15 April, 2022 • Nasser Atta

Food in Palestine: Five Videos From Nasser Atta

A Palestinian journalist passionate about depicting life across the country, Nasser Atta shares with TMR five food videos.

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29 November, 2021 • Rana Asfour

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

Rana Asfour reviews a new memoir about the legendary Dajani family, charged by a Turkish sultan with watching over King David's Tomb in Jerusalem, but exiled in 1948.

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15 October, 2021 • India Hixon Radfar

Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Rifqa” Reviewed

  Rifqa, poems by Mohammed el-Kurd Hay­mar­ket Books (Sept. 2021) ISBN: 9781642595864   India Hixon Radfar Poet Mohammed El-Kurd often plays by pair­ing his words, thus dou­bling or halv­ing their… Continue reading Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Rifqa” Reviewed

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15 October, 2021 • Fadi Kattan

The Story of Jericho Sheikh Daoud and His Beloved Mansaf

  Fadi Kattan When I think about food and incar­cer­a­tion, the sto­ries of the late Pales­tin­ian com­mu­ni­ty leader, Daoud Iriqat imme­di­ate­ly come to mind. He was always a les­son in… Continue reading The Story of Jericho Sheikh Daoud and His Beloved Mansaf

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14 July, 2021 • Jenine Abboushi

Gaza IS Palestine

Jenine Abboushi recalls family histories and lifelong friendships linking Gaza with Ramallah, Jenin and Jerusalem.

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27 June, 2021 • Mark LeVine

Q & A with Nili Belkind on “Music in Conflict” in Palestine-Israel

Musician and Middle East historian Mark LeVine interviews ethnomusicologist Nili Belkind on her new book profiling Palestinian and Israeli musicians.

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14 May, 2021 • Malu Halasa

Beautiful/Ugly: Against Aestheticizing Israel’s Separation Wall

Malu Halasa revisits the question of whether walls, borders and barriers should ever be dressed up to disguise their true intent.

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2 May, 2021 • Eman Quotah

In Search of Knowledge, Mazid Travels to Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada and Córdoba

Reviewer Eman Quotah finds that Omaima Al-Khamis' "singular imagination shines through in an erudite and sensual tale that captures a complex moment in Islamic history."

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14 March, 2021 • Gil Anidjar

Poetry Against the State

Gil Anidjar reviews A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs, and suggests that "our problem is that we have stopped listening to the poets."

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