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  • My Mother's Kitchen

    My Mother's Kitchen

    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..

  • Who was Khalil al-Sakakini? Diaries to Palestine

    Who was Khalil al-Sakakini? Diaries to Palestine

    “Does the Documenta have an anti-Semitism problem?” an editor of the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT asked on 12 January, 2022. He went on to explain a few issues later (in the ZEIT of February 2, 2022): “Artistic freedom and freedom of expression [are] by no means th..

  • Waguih Ghali’s Diaries: Political Ethics, Personal Aesthetics

    Waguih Ghali’s Diaries: Political Ethics, Personal Aesthetics

     It took fifty years for Waguih Ghali’s only novel Beer in the Snooker Club (1964) to achieve cult status among Egyptians. It has taken about the same time for his diaries to be published. The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties are now ..

  • Palestine Diaries

    Palestine Diaries

    When I told the Israeli border official who interviewed me that I was going to Ramallah, she sneered and wrinkled her brow: “okay.” Why would anyone go there, she seemed to say. There was no mistaking her disapproval. Looking at my US passport, she wanted to know about my family tree: my father`..

  • Film and its Voices: The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival

    Film and its Voices: The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival

    Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
    September 26 - 30, 2011, Washington, DC

    Last week Washington, DC joined Chicago, Boston, Houston, Ann Arbor, and a string of other cities and communities in putting on the first DC Palestin..

  • May Odeh's Diaries: Celebration, Beauty and Transcendence

    May Odeh's Diaries: Celebration, Beauty and Transcendence

    In the concluding voice over of Diaries, May Odeh declares, “It is difficult to allow occupation and political factions to steal away the last breath of the people who live tomorrow.” Her poignant film breathes more life into a Palestinians that will liv..