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2 May, 2025 • Mai Al-Nakib

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 real.

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2 May, 2025 • Sophia Didinova

Strangers at Home: Young Palestinians in Israel

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

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21 February, 2025 • Jim Quilty

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 Sfeir-Semler Gallery, on through March 25.

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6 December, 2024 • Susan Abulhawa

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 responsible for genocide."

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1 November, 2024 • Izzeldin Bukhari

“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 Hamas stand in his way.

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4 October, 2024 • Lina Mounzer

A Year of War Without End

In the guise of an editorial, senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the horror of the past year, and hopelessness as we confront endless war.

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4 October, 2024 • Khaled Jarrar

Khaled Jarrar: Artist At Work

Jenin artist Khaled Jarrar deploys photography, video, installations, films and performative interventions to explore contemporary power dynamics and how they affect everyday people.

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19 April, 2024 • Rebecca Ruth Gould

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.

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19 April, 2024 • Iason Athanasiadis

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.

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11 March, 2024 • Viola Shafik

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."

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8 January, 2024 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Cyprus: Return to Petrofani with Ali Cherri & Vicky Pericleous

Arie Amaya-Akkermans talks to Lebanese and Cypriot artists about their work on the divided island of Cyprus.

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25 December, 2023 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Meditations on Occupation, Architecture, Urbicide

In Gaza, the rubble and ruin must remain in full view not only as evidence of war crimes, but as living testimonies of shattered lives.

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4 December, 2023 • Antony Loewenstein

The Palestine Laboratory and Gaza: An Excerpt

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

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16 October, 2023 • Lina Mounzer

Palestine and the Unspeakable

Prefacing our special Palestine issue, senior editor Lina Mounzer attempts to express the horror that has become the reality in Gaza.

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16 October, 2023 • Dalia Hatuqa

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

Dalia Hatuqa reviews an intimate account of the "Jaba Bus" deaths that illuminates the harsh reality of living under Israeli occupation.

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