Culture

Three months into the war they brought a group of martyrs to the mortuary freezer in a small hospital. One of them was a seven-year-old girl. It was the first time I saw “unknown” written on a shroud. Every day, before I go to sleep, I invent a name for her. I read her a story. Every night, I se..

 Bye Bye Tiberias was the Palestinian entry for the 2024 Academy Awards. This interview was conducted before the screening of Bye Bye Tiberias at the fourth Middle East Film Festival at Denison ..

that we are among the brave, the few, who stood with genocide

who understood the need to withhold water, food, & fuel, even

medicine & shelter, from “human animals” who confront us

by their very being, we, who saw the true danger posed by

pregnant women, n..

Every morning, and every now and then, my mother reminds us to decrease our use of water. To keep a pot in the sink to collect the used water after washing dishes for other purposes. Her favorite saying during the war is “we are better off than others!” I told my sister that I cut my hair. I jus..

On the day you were murdered
I did many of the things
you would have done if alive—
woke up, kissed my daughter, went
to work, taught a few curious souls
a little about reading a poem—
then read the news in which
your name appeared without
you there anymor..

How am I to talk about my journey from its ending? As in all endings, it's an eternal scream, doesn't know where to end.

Nothing was new to me, not the killing of innocents nor was the total destruction. but, this time-is the last for me-

[Pardon me, my extremities froze along wi..

I have worked on and written about Palestinian cultural politics for fifteen years.  And yet, over the past fifty days words have felt inconsequential in the face of Israel’s genocide. For nearly two months, live streamed on our screens, Gaza has been turned into a dystopian gallery of images th..

Earth is Narrowing Around Us

Mahmoud Darwish

Earth is narrowing around us

Forcing us into the last passage

So we take off our body parts to pass through

Earth is squeezing us

If only we were its wheat to ..