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The Andalus Test: Reflections on the Attempt to Publish Arabic Literature in Hebrew
Should a visitor from another planet happen to arrive here and look around at the reality between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea without the usual lenses of distortion, she would see that in Israel/Palestine—the land stretching from the river to the sea which has been under one rule for over forty years—almost half the population is Palestinian Arab and Arabic is their mother tongue, as well as that of nearly half of the Israeli Jewish population. Should our guest distinguish—as does the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, as well as the Israeli academy and media—between Israeli citizens and occupied Palestinian subjects, she would find that within the ...
Keep Reading »عين على المخيم
![[أطفال في مخيم برج البراجنة، بيروت. تصوير وحقوق نشر لمحمد مواسي]](/content_images/3/sm_MawassiChildren.jpg "[أطفال في مخيم برج البراجنة، بيروت. تصوير وحقوق نشر لمحمد مواسي]")
بلغ عدد اللاجئين المسجلين لدى الانوروا (وكالة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين) نهاية عام 2011، حوالي 5.1 مليون لاجئ فلسطيني، يشكلون ما نسبته 45.6% من مجمل السكان الفلسطينيين في العالم، يتوزعون بواقع 59.1% في كل من الأردن وسوريا ولبنان، و17.1% في الضفة الغربية، و23.8% في قطاع غزة. يعيش حوالي 29.0% من اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في 58 مخيماً. وتمثل هذه التقديرات الحد الأدنى لعدد اللاجئين الفلسطينيين باعتبار وجود لاجئين غير مسجلين. هذه الصور التقطتها عدسة محمد مواسي في اذار/مارس من العام الجاري في مخيم برج البراجنة. تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها للفت الإنتباه والتذكير بمحنة اللاجئين في الذكرى الرابعة والستين للنكبة. أُنشئ مخيم برج البراجنة ...
Keep Reading »فضيحة بوعلام صنصال تدغدغ الوجدان الاسرائيلي
![[dpa/pa بوعلام صنصال ]](/content_images/3/sm_111017_Sansal_Friedenspreis.jpg "[dpa/pa بوعلام صنصال ]")
يشارك الكاتب الجزائري الفرنكوفوني بوعلام صنصال في «مهرجان الأدباء العالمي» الذي تعقده مؤسسة «مشكانوت شأنانيم» في القدس بين 13 و18 أيار (مايو) الجاري. وسيظهر خلاله ضمن ندوة ثنائية تجمع بينه وبين الكاتب الإسرائيلي أ. ب. يهوشواع تعقد في 16 الجاري، وسيكون محورها حوار الثقافات. وعشية هذه الندوة سيشترك في لقاء مفتوح مع الجمهور الإسرائيلي يعقد في المعهد الفرنسي في تل أبيب. وأعرب مدير المؤسسة المنظمة لهذا المهرجان أوري درومي، والذي كان مديراً لدائرة الصحافة الحكومية، عن سروره البالغ لعدم خضوع صنصال للضغوط التي مورست عليه من أجل إلغاء مشاركته، وخصوصاً من جانب حركة «حماس»، لافتاً إلى أنه سيحظى في القدس بحرية في طرح أسئلته الشجاعة التي يفتقدها في الجزائر، لكون إسرائيل «رأس ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Hunger Strikers: Fighting Ingrained Duplicity
![[Palestinians hold photographs of their relatives jailed in Israel during a support rally for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2012. Image by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_LadiesStriking.jpg "[Palestinians hold photographs of their relatives jailed in Israel during a support rally for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2012. Image by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo.]")
On his seventy-third day of hunger strike, Thaer Halahleh was vomiting blood and bleeding from his lips and gums, while his body weighs in at 121 pounds—a fraction of its pre-hunger strike size. The thirty-three-year-old Palestinian follows the still-palpable footsteps of Adnan Khader and Hana Shalabi, whose hunger strikes resulted in release. He also stands alongside Bilal Diab, who is also entering his seventy-third day of visceral protest. Together, they inspired nearly 2,500 Palestinian political prisoners to go on hunger strike in protest of Israel's policy of indefinite detention without charge or trial. Administrative detention has constituted a core of Israel's ...
Keep Reading »Love Bomb: How Deep Is Israel's Love for Iran?
If you follow the news in the Middle East, you have probably come across the online sensation known as the “Israel-Loves-Iran” campaign. The campaign, launched by Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry and his wife Michal Tamir, emerges amidst rising tensions between Iran and the West over the country’s nuclear program, as well as months of sabre-rattling between the leaders of Israel, the United States, and Iran. What started out as a campaign to upload colourful posters with the slogan “Iranians, we will never bomb your country. We [heart] you” quickly turned into the second most-viewed video on YouTube in Israel, with around 740,000 views thus far. The irresistible ...
Keep Reading »Desmond Tutu: Justice Requires Action to Stop Subjugation of Palestinians
[The following op-ed was written by Archbishop-Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, Desmond Tutu and published in the Tampa Bay Times on 1 May 2012.] A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel's long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory and refusal to extend equal rights to Palestinian citizens who suffer from some 35 discriminatory laws. I have reached this conclusion slowly and painfully. I am aware that many of our Jewish brothers and sisters who were so instrumental ...
Keep Reading »Why the EU Must Intervene to Stop the Prawer Plan: A Conversation with Dr. Thabet Abu Rass
![[Demolished Bedouin structure in the Naqab (Negev). Image by Josh Hough.]](/content_images/3/sm_InterviewwithThabetAbuRasonPrawer.jpg "[Demolished Bedouin structure in the Naqab (Negev). Image by Josh Hough.]")
In early April 2012, Dr. Thabet Abu Rass, the Director of Adalah’s Naqab Office, conducted an advocacy mission to Brussels co-hosted by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), of which Adalah is a long-standing, active member. The purpose of the mission was to call attention to the government-approved Prawer Plan, which threatens to forcibly dispossess and displace the Arab Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) from their homes and ancestral lands. In this text, Dr. Abu Rass explains the importance of the mission and why intervention by the European Union (EU) on behalf of the Arab minority, and particularly the Arab Bedouin, could not come at a more ...
Keep Reading »Degrees of Incarceration
When I started shooting for what would become Degrees of Incarceration in 2003, I had no idea that it would entail anything more than a day’s work. I showed up with a camera because a dear friend and colleague asked if I had a day to document a youth play about prisons. I ended up spending the night (leaving Bethlehem by public transportation after 4pm was impractical, my new friends told me) and then regularly returning to the youth center that organized the play. As I got to know the activists who worked on the play, I heard about the night arrest raids that stunned the camp awake on a regular basis, about the youth detentions that took children from school, friends, ...
Keep Reading »ArteEast Presents Two Literary Events Featuring Poets from Gaza (New York, 24 & 25 April 2012)
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April 24 at 7pm: Gazan Writers Salon 1: Fractured Web, Gazan Writing Online at Columbia Center for Palestine Studies, Knox Hall Room 509, Columbia University, 606 West 122 Street, New York, NY 10027. Free and open to the public. April 25 at 7pm: Gazan Writers Salon 2: From Memoir to Reportage and Back Again, a literary reading at Nuyorican Poets Cafe 236 E. 3rd St., New York, NY 10009. Advance tickets $10 (click here to order), $15 at the door. Sponsored by ArteEast. ArteEast is pleased to present a two-part series of literary readings and discussion, the Gazan Writers Salons, to academic and literary audiences in New York as a special program in ...
Keep Reading »Khalil al-Wazir: Paving the Way of Armed Struggle
![[Abu Jihad coordinates with fedayeen (Palestinian guerrilla fighters) during the siege of Beirut in 1982. Image from Ahram Archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_Khalil_Bdeir_Main_pic_1.jpg "[Abu Jihad coordinates with fedayeen (Palestinian guerrilla fighters) during the siege of Beirut in 1982. Image from Ahram Archive.]")
It took Israeli intelligence over two decades and many assassination attempts before they managed to hunt down the PLO’s military mastermind Khalil al-Wazir. On the 24th anniversary of his death, Al-Akhbar recounts his story. When Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) began his endeavor in the early 1950s, Israeli intelligence had no idea he existed. At the time, he was the twentysomething leader of the Palestinian al-Haq Brigade in Gaza. His family had been displaced from Ramleh in 1948. Back then, the security establishment in Israel did not believe that Palestinians were capable of organizing a resistance movement. Operations by the fedayeen (Palestinian guerrilla ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
Omar Jabary Salamanca, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie, and Sobhi Samour, editors. Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine. Special Issue of settler colonial studies 2.1 (2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this special issue? Editors (E): This open-access (and therefore freely accessible) special issue emerges out of a conference we organized in early March 2011, convened by the SOAS Palestine Society. The impetus for the conference came from two main directions. First, we all work on ...
Keep Reading »سروة ونكبة...
قصة قصيرة ليلة مقمرة، لا أقل ولا أكثر. وأشجار سرو، كانت تؤرقني كلما تأملتها. كانت تحيط بساحة المدرسة وتبدو لي تافهة مكتوفة الأيدي، غير قادرة على تحريك أغصانها بحرية. وكنت أعتقد ألا نفع منها، لا بثمر ولا بظل، إلا بسهولة رسمها في كراريسنا. أشجار سرو، تحوطني هذه الليلة ولكن ليس في ساحة المدرسة. تترنح ذات الشمال وذات اليمين، وكأنها تعاكس الريح. أما أنا فكنت بطيء النمو ونحيفاً مثلها وربما هذا ما جعلني أُكثر من تأملها وأنا لم أقطع سنواتي العشر بعد. كنا ننام أربعتنا، أنا وأختي ندى ووالداي، منذ ليال خمس ...
Keep Reading »Haera: Right of Return March (In both Arabic and English)
هذا هو الشريط الثالث في سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الفيلم الثالث بعنوان ...
Keep Reading »The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival: Showcasing Subjectivity
In September 2011, a group of young Arab women, myself included, conspired to organize a DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DC-PFAF). Inspired by the gigantic models established in Toronto, Chicago, London, Houston, Ann Arbor, and Boston, we decided to emulate this model in Washington, DC. We believed it would also provide an on-going artistic project for young Palestinian organizers, many of whom are active with the US Palestinian Community Network-DC (USPCN-DC). The USPCN is a ...
Keep Reading »In Defense of UCLA Professor David Shorter and All Scholars Who Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
[The following open letter was issued by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) on 1 May 2012.] In Defense of UCLA Professor David Shorter and All Scholars Who Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel In March 2012, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and Leila Beckwith, the co-founders of an anti-Palestinian organization known as the “Amcha Initiative,” emailed a letter to California politicians and administrators of the University of California that accused ...
Keep Reading »Increase of Inhumane Punishment by IPS for Thousands of Palestinians Classified as “Security Prisoners” in 2011
4,275 security prisoners are Palestinians from the OPT… fourteen security prisoners are Jewish. According to data that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) provided to Adalah in a letter on 28 February 2012, there were 19,561 prisoners in detention facilities managed by the IPS, 4,631 of them were classified as "security prisoners." 4,275 of the security prisoners were Palestinians who are living in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, 340 are Palestinians citizens of Israeli, ...
Keep Reading »The Last Liberty--An Interview with Anat Litvin
Salah Mohsen of Adalah interviews Anat Litvin, the director of the Prisoners’ and Detainees’ Department of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, on the hunger strike of Palestinian political prisoners. (Haifa and Tel Aviv, 22 April 2012) Salah: Last week, Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli jails took up a mass hunger strike. How many prisoners are now on hunger strike and why are they striking? Anat: According to Palestinian organizations, about 1,600 prisoners went on strike, and ...
Keep Reading »As Though She Were Sleeping
[This excerpt is from Elias Khoury’s As Though She Were Sleeping (Ka’annaha Na’ima) which was translated by Marilyn Booth and published by Archipelago Books this month. Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces and May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt. She has translated ...
Keep Reading »No Boycotts Here: Veolia's Booming Business from OPT to KSA
Veolia, a publicly owned French company that provides environmental services in the fields of water, waste management, energy and transportation, has long been the target of one of the most successful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns for its violation of Palestinian human rights. In the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Veolia has facilitated the Israeli occupation by building and operating a tram-line which links Jerusalem with illegal settlements in the West Bank, by dumping ...
Keep Reading »مأساة نبيّة؛ أو، تفاصيل فشل عودة البنت الضائعة
إنّ تتبّع مسارات الأعمال الفنّـيّة ومواقع عرضها في فضاء اجتماعيّ ما، قد يدلّنا الكثير عمّا يجري في عمليّة انتاج تداول واستهلاك هذه الأعمال في هذا الفضاء. بهذا لا يمكننا أن نفهم الحركة الحداثيّة المتأخّرة التي تحتّم، أحيانًا، انتقال جزء من أعمال الفنّ من حائط المتحف، إلى أنواع فضاء اجتماعيّة أخرى جديدة، دون أن نبحث في ما يحصل في المجتمع العينيّ. وعندما نستطيع أن نحدّد الفضاء الجديد بأنّه الفضاء المعيشيّ العامّ، مثل الشارع أو المقهى أو الدوّار وما شابهها، فإنّ العلاقة الأساسيّة بين المؤسّسة الرسميّة ...
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