BADIL: Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights announces its release of the latest al-Majdal magazine, Towards a Prognosis: Diagnosing Fragmentation and Problems of Representation in Palestinian Politics. The 52nd installment of BADIL’s quarterly magazine examines the current discourse on the state of the Palestinian national body. In particular, it asks takes a closer look at the discourse regarding the fragmentation of the Palestinian national body and its crisis of representation. This ongoing and dynamic process of fragmentation and crisis has also evidenced potential for remedies. Indeed, nascent remedial measures have already emerged. As this issue of al-Majdak indicates, the task ahead involves developing and honing emerging responses towards a comprehensive and sustainable vision that can be shared by a broad spectrum of the Palestinian national body.
Towards a Prognosis: Diagnosing Fragmentation and Problems of Representation in Palestinian Politics, Issue #52, Spring 2013
Editorial
Principles of Refugee Participation, Nidal al-Azza
Commentary
Advancing a Language of Unity and Return within a Fragmented Palestinian Geography, Amjad Alqasis
International Solidarity: A report from the World Social Forum – Tunis 2013, Bisan Mitri and Manar Makhoul
Trojan Cow: Pixilated Intifada, Amer Shomali
Feature
Navigating the Void: Palestinian Youth Resistance in the Absence of Political Leadership, Nour Joudah
The Arab Spring and Reviving the Hope of Return, Zarefa Ali and Amal Zayed
A Crisis of Representation: Debating the PLO on al-Shabaka and Jadaliyya, Thayer Hastings
Solving the “Problem of Palestine”: Arguing through Reason, Law, and Emotion Void of Strategy, Lori A. Allen
Enfranchising Refugees: PNC Elections in Comparative Context, Terry Rempel
Nothing Less than Freedom: A Response to the Destructive Myths of Rev. Andrew Love, Rifat Odeh Kassis and Sodastream cartoon by Maia Brown
BADIL Documents
36th Land Day statement
65th Nakba Day statement