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Lament For My Dear Cousin and Friend in Tulkarm

Lament For My Dear Cousin and Friend in Tulkarm

The Israeli army’s siege of Tulkarm prompts one writer to bear witness to the brutal consequences of conquest...

3 OCTOBER 2025 • By Thoth
Nasser Rabah on Poetry and Gaza

Nasser Rabah on Poetry and Gaza

Gaza's senior poet Nasser Rabah presents two poems from his first collected works in English, new from City...

4 JULY 2025 • By Nasser Rabah
Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Home is Elsewhere: On the Fictions of Return

Feeling that her childhood home differed from her birthplace, writer Mai Al-Nakib perceives home as more imaginary than...

2 MAY 2025 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

Young Palestinian citizens of Israel navigate life facing a unique position as both insiders and outsiders.

2 MAY 2025 • By Sophia Didinova
Finding Emptiness: Gaza Artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut

Finding Emptiness: Gaza Artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut

Jim Quilty interviews Paris-based Gazan artist Taysir Batniji in Beirut about his new show, "Just in Case" at...

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Jim Quilty
Susan Abulhawa at Oxford Union on Palestine/Israel

Susan Abulhawa at Oxford Union on Palestine/Israel

Susan Abulhawa gave a speech at Oxford Union as a resolution passed determining "Israel is an apartheid state...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Susan Abulhawa
“The Ballad of Lulu and Amina”—from Jerusalem to Gaza

“The Ballad of Lulu and Amina”—from Jerusalem to Gaza

Can Izzeldin Bukhari bring the cat his sister loves to her wedding in Gaza? Only the IDF and...

1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Izzeldin Bukhari
A Year of War Without End

A Year of War Without End

In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Khaled Jarrar: Artist At Work

Khaled Jarrar: Artist At Work

Jenin artist Khaled Jarrar deploys photography, video, installations, films and performative interventions to explore contemporary power dynamics and...

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Khaled Jarrar
Man Is a Cause: Wisam Rafeedie & the Palestinian Revolutionary Novel

Man Is a Cause: Wisam Rafeedie & the Palestinian Revolutionary Novel

A classic prison novel by Wisam Rafeedie recounts the revolutionary fervor of Palestinian political prisoners.

19 APRIL 2024 • By Rebecca Ruth Gould
Hollywoodgate—New Doc Captures the Post-American Taliban

Hollywoodgate—New Doc Captures the Post-American Taliban

Iason Athanasiadis reviews a documentary of an Egyptian's observations of the first year of the Taliban's new regime.

19 APRIL 2024 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Israeli & Palestinian Filmmakers Accused of Anti-semitism at Berlinale

Israeli & Palestinian Filmmakers Accused of Anti-semitism at Berlinale

Viola Shafik addresses the controversy at the 2024 Berlinale, following the screening of a Palestinian-Israeli "solidarity film."

11 MARCH 2024 • By Viola Shafik
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