Nakba

New Documentaries from Palestine, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iran

New Documentaries from Palestine, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iran

New SWANA films respond to genocide and starvation while urging viewers to act beyond passive consumption of the...

12 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Yassin El-Moudden
Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Israel is Today’s Sparta: Middle East Wars Viewed from Iraq

Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...

20 JUNE 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Arrested and Rearrested: Palestinian Women in the West Bank

Arrested and Rearrested: Palestinian Women in the West Bank

Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.

16 MAY 2025 • By Lynzy Billing
Yassini Girls—a Powerful Yet Flawed Account of Historical Trauma

Yassini Girls—a Powerful Yet Flawed Account of Historical Trauma

Natasha Tynes reviews a Palestinian novel that thoughtfully examines intergenerational trauma, making it an insightful and worthwhile read.

31 JANUARY 2025 • By Natasha Tynes
Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev—a Review

Israel’s Black Panthers by Asaf Elia-Shalev—a Review

In the 1970s Israel's Black Panthers rocked the establishment and brought the rampant discrimation against Arab Jews to...

19 JULY 2024 • By Ilan Benattar
The Palestine Laboratory and Gaza: An Excerpt

The Palestine Laboratory and Gaza: An Excerpt

Antony Loewenstein, winner of Australia's highest journalism award, presents his latest exploration of Israel and Palestine.

4 DECEMBER 2023 • By Antony Loewenstein
The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

Exile retold through embroidered Palestinian stories, by documentary photographer and visual storyteller Rasha Al Jundi.

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Rasha Al Jundi
Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love

Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love

London-based Iraqi playwright Hassan Abdulrazak enthuses on the 2023 Shubbak theatre arts extravaganza, June 23-July 9.

4 JUNE 2023 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Nurredin Amro’s Epic Battle to Save His Home From Demolition

Nurredin Amro’s Epic Battle to Save His Home From Demolition

For eight years, a blind Palestinian school principal has resisted persistent Israeli efforts to drive his family out...

24 APRIL 2023 • By Nora Lester Murad
Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer in Haifa, reviews the family memoir that evokes nearly a century of Palestinian...

28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Diana Buttu
From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea

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...

29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By TMR
Palestinian Akram Musallam Writes of Loss and Memory

Palestinian Akram Musallam Writes of Loss and Memory

The Slovak-Palestinian writer khulud khamis (sic) of Haifa appreciates the spiralling storytelling of her compeer, Akram Musallam of...

29 AUGUST 2021 • By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
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