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Palestinian Reviews
Harmonious, Asymptotically – Book Review
By Marshall McGraw (Fractured Destinies, by Rabai al-Madhoun, translated by Paul Starkey, 257 pp. Hoopoe $18.95) The word “concerto” takes its derivation from the Latin concerto, -are, -atus (“to contend”), though contemporary usage modulates the […]
Pen and Notebook – A Short Story
By Nayrouz Qarmout (Excerpts from The Sea Clock, by Nayrouz Qarmout. Comma Press. Manchester, 2019.) Their feet were too small for the task. They lengthened their strides as the road opened up before them, breaking […]
The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 2 – Book Review
By Nicholas Vincenzo Barney (Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women Paperback. Jo Glanville, Editor. Telegram: May 1, 2007.) Me (the Bitch) and Bustanji, Selma Dabbagh We return to another story of a half-Palestinian in Kuwait […]
Flipping the Script with Ahmed Mansour: ‘Palestinians Are Resilient, Not Traumatized’ (VIDEOS)
By Kevin Gilligan (An Interview with Gazan Filmmaker Ahmed Mansour) Earlier this week I sat down with Gazan filmmaker Ahmed Mansour before he headed out to the Seattle Premiere of his latest feature-length documentary Brooklyn […]
Israel’s Favorite Occupation – Interview with Author Andrew Ross
By Nicholas Vincenzo Barney It’s not often that you find the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in agreement on the borders of Israel. But with momentum for a single-state future for […]
The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 1 – Book Review
By Nicholas Vincenzo Barney (Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women Paperback. Jo Glanville, Editor. Telegram: May 1, 2007.) The voice of the Palestinian woman is occupied twice over. First, by the Israeli bootheel whose half-century […]
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel – Book Review
By Nicholas V. Barney There is a memorable passage from satirist Evelyn Waugh’s perhaps purposively unremembered political masterpiece “Black Mischief” (1932), in which Basil Seal, the chief Anglo architect of a modernization program in the […]