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– Haidar Eid is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the Al-Aqsa University, in the Gaza Strip. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.

‘Watani’: A Kanafanian Song in the Time of National Crisis (VIDEO)

July 13, 2022

Bodies fall, but not the idea. (Ghassan Kanafani) The 50th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani coincides with the passing of 15 years of the Fatah-Hamas rift, instigated by the Bush administration in 2007 […]

The Song of BDS: In Memory of Samah Idriss (VIDEO)

June 13, 2022

It’s been a year since Israel’s brutal aerial bombardment of Gaza, in which hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, were killed by Israel’s war machine. At the time, the Gaza-based Civil Society issued […]

Fawwadnak: Song of Resistance and Representation (VIDEO)

December 30, 2021

2021 was a tough year for Palestine; more criminal wars on besieged Gaza, more settlements in the West Bank, and more racist attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel. This, however, raised the question of moving […]

An Open Letter from Palestine to Miss South Africa

November 14, 2021

Dear Ms. Lalela Mswane, We don’t know each other. I only know that you are Miss South Africa and just heard of your name two days ago when the media reported that you will represent […]

Simsimiyya: Songs of Resistance from Suez to Gaza (VIDEO)

October 12, 2021

In 1956 the dying colonial powers, Britain and France, in cahoots with apartheid Israel launched a tripartite aggression against Egypt after its heroic decision to nationalize the Suez Canal. England occupied the city of Suez […]

Farhaneen: Song of Joy from Gaza (VIDEO)

August 5, 2021

Towards the end of the latest Israeli horrific onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip in May 2021, the idea of producing a new song about the Sumud (steadfastness) of the people of historic Palestine – those who […]

Ode to Resistance: Video-Clip from Palestine (Song by Haidar Eid)

August 29, 2020

As Israel continues its bombing of Gaza for the 15th night in a row, while its sole power plant is forced to shut due to Israel’s decision to ban fuel from entering the Strip, and […]

Re-reading Ghassan Kanafani in the 21st Century

February 1, 2020

(Kanafani, Ghassan . Men in the Sun. (Trans. Hilary Kilpatrick). London: Heinemann, 1978. —. All That’s Left to You. (Trans. May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed). Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1990.) The necessity of reading […]

New Year Reflections from Gaza

January 3, 2019

The great Italian, Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci wrote about the reasons why he does not celebrate the coming of the new year from a critical perspective. He also wrote very eloquently about the pessimism of […]

Incurable Disease Called Hope

We suffer from an incurable disease called hope; hope of freedom and independence; hope of a normal life where we are neither hero nor victim; hope to see our children go to school without fear for their lives.

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