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Voices on Palestine
A Guernica collection
A Deluge of Sewage in Palestine, but Still No Water
When a natural resource becomes a weapon of war.
https://www.guernicamag.com/michelle-chen-a-deluge-of-sewage-in-palestine-but-still-no-water/
A Re-Imagined Palestine
Larissa Sansour explores the Palestinian condition by using science fiction in her films and photography.
Running in Palestine
In Palestine, running can be more than an athletic endeavor.
https://www.guernicamag.com/ian-rhodewalt-running-in-palestine/
Imagining Myself in Palestine
On a recent trip to Israel, Randa Jarrar gets detained, denied entry, and sent to the “Arab Room.”
https://www.guernicamag.com/randa-jarrar-imagining-myself-in-palestine/
Palestine
In this piece from our Writers Bloc project, our collection of essays about education systems around the world, Rachel Holmes inflames imaginations with the Palestine Writing Workshop.
Re-Imagining Palestine in a Changing Arab Region: A Conversation Between Norman Finkelstein and Raja Shehadeh
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Guernica and OR Books present a conversation between political scientist Norman Finkelstein and Palestinian writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh at Alwan for the Arts, 8 p.m., April 19th. |
https://www.guernicamag.com/re-imagining_palestine_in_a_ch_1/
Palestine’s Great Book Robbery
The Israeli filmmaker on the need to reclaim Palestinian books looted by Israeli forces in 1948 and why Israel’s internal conflict gives him hope for peace.
Confrontations
Our January issue
I, Ghost
The West doesn’t give a shit about me.
Art as Activism
A collection by artists from Gaza — and a call to US museums to exhibit their work.
A Loud and Hungry Darkness
We were never starving, but we were kept just hungry enough to feel it.
Revision
I don’t mean to hate the sparrows.
In Search of Passage
The November issue
Solidarity Rising: “Sahrawis know a lot about the world, even though the world doesn’t know about them”
A look at the war for independence in Africa’s last colony
To Be in a State of War
Pity, when it exists, is tribal. In other words: I feel sorry for you because you are not like me.
Mansoor Adayfi: “If you are alive, you still have resistance within you”
“And, at Guantanamo, if you’re alive, you’re also a fucking terrorist.”
Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt: “You see the politics on her face”
Revealing a more personal side of the renowned philosopher, in the archives and on Twitter.
https://www.guernicamag.com/samantha-rose-hill-on-hannah-arendt-you-see-the-politics-on-her-face/
Teaching Poetry in the Palestinian Apocalypse
Towards a collective, lyric “I”
https://www.guernicamag.com/teaching-poetry-in-the-palestinian-apocalypse/
Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse
The Lebanese novelist captures the months before the deadly explosion. An excerpt from his new book, out today.
https://www.guernicamag.com/beirut-2020-diary-of-the-collapse/
Grief Is Another Word For Love
Ultimately, we do not want to love only the dead.
Exodus
Loving Lebanon is one thing; living there is another. Generation after generation, surviving in the homeland sometimes costs too much.
Natalie Diaz and Nathalie Handal: Map of the Next World
The two award-winning poets consider borders, both real and figurative, through the lens of their new collections.
https://www.guernicamag.com/natalie-diaz-and-nathalie-handal-map-of-the-next-world/
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: “It is not possible to decolonize the museum without decolonizing the world.”
The political theorist argues that those whose worlds have been destroyed by five centuries of imperialism have the right to live near the objects that have been plundered from their culture.
https://www.guernicamag.com/miscellaneous-files-ariella-aisha-azoulay/
On a Greek Island, Refugees’ Hopes Are Put on Hold
Refugees are landing on the island of Samos in staggering numbers. Once there, they face grim living conditions, local hostility, and futures of endless waiting.
https://www.guernicamag.com/on-a-greek-island-refugees-hopes-are-put-on-hold/
In Egypt, the Drying Up of Dissent
Recounting the past of the Eastern Desert is my only refuge given the dire constraints of the present.
https://www.guernicamag.com/in-egypt-the-drying-up-of-dissent/
Theater for a Now Audience: A Roundtable
Today’s playwrights and directors weigh in on politics in theater and the state of the stage in a time of upheaval.
The Family Dolls, Featuring Charlie, Leslie, & More
Why it’s okay to play with Manson family paper dolls: The first six installments of John Reed’s Manson Family Paper Doll book. Print & Color Yourself!
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-family-dolls-featuring-charlie-leslie-more/
Mithkal Alzghair: Dancing Displacement
The Syrian choreographer on his latest performance.
https://www.guernicamag.com/mithkal-alzghair-dancing-displacement/
Architecture of Persecution
The 4000-year-old city of Jerusalem’s rich archeological history is weaponized against Palestinians.
My East in Venice
Piecing together a fragmented Palestinian family.
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami: Mirror from Damascus
In a war that remains unfinished, two Syrian-British writers acknowledge and affirm those whose stories and lives may be lost in its course.
Fabric of Resistance
An exhibition in Beirut challenges conventional perspectives to tell a political history of Palestinian embroidery
https://www.guernicamag.com/elizabeth-a-mcinerny-fabric-of-resistance/
Cities of the Future: The Bubble
During the difficult times that the bleeding Middle East as a whole and Israel in particular are enduring, times of religious fundamentalism, violence, racism, and despair, Tel Aviv has indeed been a bubble—a bubble that continues to draw to it many who still believe we can build a better future through action and not just through prayer.
Meeting Edward Said
Imagining a meeting with the post-colonial scholar.
https://www.guernicamag.com/anna-furman-meeting-edward-said/
My Father’s Aleppo
An exodus, a return, and the questions that follow.
Darnell L. Moore & Kai M. Green: Conversation in Black
Darnell L. Moore and Kai M. Green write to each other about life as black feminists.
https://www.guernicamag.com/darnell-l-moore-kai-m-green-conversation-in-black/
A Reporter’s Notebook from Molenbeek
In the fight against extremism of all stripes, Europe has failed to transcend its capitalist roots and embrace diversity.
https://www.guernicamag.com/lisa-de-bode-a-reporters-notebook-from-molenbeek/
Eve Ensler, Monique Wilson, Nimmi Gowrinathan, and More: Bodies of Revolution
Female leaders from around the globe trade notes on building a new women’s solidarity movement.
Kamal Aljafari: Unfinished Balconies in the Sea
Filmmaker Kamal Aljafari talks to Nathalie Handal about the poetry of memory, and displacement in Palestine
https://www.guernicamag.com/kamal-aljafari-filming-ghosts-and-unfinished-balconies/
Be Like Water
Boundaries of Nations: The Nonviolent State of Iraq and Syria. The Republic-in-Motion of Lovers Not Fighters. The Government-in-Exile of People Who Just Want to Go to School.
Crushed
To occupy words.
When the Lobbying Underdogs Get Ahead
A look at how the Iran Deal was made possible by unlikely groups.
https://www.guernicamag.com/bridey-heing-when-the-lobbying-underdogs-get-ahead/
Selma Dabbagh: Out of It
Selma Dabbagh talks about the personal and political in her debut novel, Out of It.
Subjectivity and Wartime Journalism
When objectivity is biased.
https://www.guernicamag.com/richard-falk-subjectivity-and-wartime-journalism/
Parodies of Parity
Our understanding of Israel’s occupation of Palestine must be reoriented to acknowledge the relation between oppressor and oppressed is not one of equal responsibility.
https://www.guernicamag.com/richard-falk-parodies-of-parity/
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi: Journey to the Other
The scholar and peace activist on Palestinian centrism, living as an exile, and learning from both Fatah and Israeli soldiers on the road to radical compassion.
Jon Rubin: Conflict Kitchen
Chelsea Haines talks with artist Jon Rubin about the surprisingly controversial politics of serving Palestinian food in Pittsburgh.
The Dangerous Lives of Cartoonists
Cartoonists across the Middle East denounced the Charlie Hebdo murders with work that reflects their own daily struggle against censorship and intimidation.
https://www.guernicamag.com/jonathan-guyer-the-dangerous-lives-of-cartoonists/
A Tripartite Drama
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer mines the ongoing resonance of the Camp David Accords, on stage and on the page.
Kareem James Abu-Zeid: A Search for Justice and Expansive Identities
Nathalie Handal talks to Kareem James Abu-Zeid about translating the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and conveying the layered politics and fluid identities found in his work.
https://www.guernicamag.com/kareem-james-abu-zeid-a-search-for-justice-and-expansive-identities/
Once Returned
I admit my decision to move my family to Gaza is kind of strange.
Yasmin El-Rifae: The Air Was Hot with Hysterical Nationalism
A year after the Raba’a massacre in Cairo, one writer struggles to redraw her relationship to the city.
https://www.guernicamag.com/yasmin-el-rifae-hot-with-hysterical-nationalism/
Scenes From a Contemporary Arab World
The curator on the New Museum exhibition Here and Elsewhere.
https://www.guernicamag.com/scenes-from-a-contemporary-arab-world/
DNA
you’re nothing, / absolutely nothing, / but a Palestinian.
The Time has Come
Do Israel’s military operations against Gaza constitute war crimes?
Max Blumenthal: To Zion and Back
The journalist on the rise of Israeli extremism.
Old Wine, Broken Bottle
Ari Shavit as harbinger of Israel’s new hard sell to American Jews.
Stasis Shift
The Jadaliyya co-founder on telling alternative stories about the Arab world, understanding the life cycles of revolution, and confronting “the weight of ancient problems.”
Summer of War and Apricots
Identity and amour in an Israeli kibbutz following the Six-Day War.
https://www.guernicamag.com/sue-william-silverman-summer-of-war-and-apricots/
Islands of Amnesia
Guilt was a knot in my grandfather’s stomach, and the decision to leave was a wound that only surfaced when he faded out of this world.
https://www.guernicamag.com/sousan-hammad-islands-of-amnesia/
Mais Darwazah: By the Sea
The filmmaker on finding inspiration in poetry and the meaning of “home” in Palestine.
Ari Shavit: From Left Field
The controversial author unravels the complexity of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the “inevitable tragedy” at the heart of Zionism.
Art is a Problem
Joshua Decter grapples with art’s inherent contradictions; the Los Angeles race riots; and a contemporary artist’s social allegories in response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Art is a Problem.
Bill Ayers: Radical Acts
The activist, educator, and former leader of the Weather Underground on upholding revolutionary principles in “non-revolutionary times.”
Exit Strategy
In the occupied West Bank, “Undesirable life is ended, and unauthorized death is banned.”
A Hoopoe’s Unguiding Narrative
An Iranian writer finds meaning and meaninglessness in the fact of her Jewish roots.
The Barrel of the Apartheid Gun
The Nobel laureate on Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, a new biography of South Africa’s revolutionary couple.
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-barrel-of-the-apartheid-gun/
A Lesson In Daily Longing
On the origins of Zaytuna College, the United States’ first Muslim liberal arts institution, and the scholars and students who call it home.
Bravery and Gender in “Confessional Writing”
An evening with Guernica at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
https://www.guernicamag.com/bravery-and-gender-in-confessional-writing/
Scott Ross: Kony2013
One year later, the LRA leader is still at large—but the controversial viral video has changed America’s relationship to the International Criminal Court.
Natalie Storey: Sacred Land
The impossible and necessary vision of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani
Impunity in India
Major Avtar Singh of the Indian Army’s counterinsurgency in Kashmir killed dozens. India refused to punish him. So did Canada and the U.S., where he killed his family and committed suicide.
Justice Delayed
As the disappeared from the Kurdish-Turkish conflict are unearthed from unmarked graves, will the government help deliver justice?
Rebecca Solnit: The Sky’s the Limit
The demanding gifts of 2012.
https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-the-skys-the-limit/
Alice Walker: Writing What’s Right
Banned Books Week: The author of The Color Purple (and one of America’s most censured writers) tells Megan Labrise about finding wisdom in the songs of ancestors, why her acclaimed novel won’t be translated into Hebrew, and approaching writing in a priestly state of mind.
https://www.guernicamag.com/alice-walker-writing-whats-right/
The Five-Star Occupation
Is Ramallah’s economic boom a sign of progress or surrender?
Life Under Lockdown
Residents of the Gaza Strip are restricted in their movements, in what they can bring into and send out of their land, even how far off their shores they can fish. Words, though, know no borders.
Islam and the Arab Awakening
As Islamists across the Arab World continue to enshrine sharî’a concepts in their constitutions, noted academic Tariq Ramadan asks, are other alternatives available?
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
In an excerpt from his posthumous graphic memoir, Pekar contends with his identity and the Jewish state.
https://www.guernicamag.com/not-the-israel-my-parents-promised-me/
Sadakat Kadri: Interpreting Shari’a
Sadakat Kadri on Muslim and Western ignorance of what Shari’a law really means–and the real concerns that should be targeted.
Medyan Dairieh: Capturing Tripoli
One year after the UN approval of a no-fly zone over Libya, Award-winning photojournalist and war correspondent Medyan Dairieh discusses life on the frontline.
The Imperial Way
American decline in perspective, part II.
Hegemony and its Dilemmas
American decline in perspective, Part I.
Cairo, Hers Again
Ahdaf Soueif begins a long-awaited book about her Cairo with the first days of the revolution that changed the world.
Writers Bloc Event
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Event at the Free Word Lecture Theatre featured Kamila Shamsie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and our own Michael Archer. |
The Counterpoint of Change
The Writers Bloc essays don’t have to have a direct affect on policy or pedagogy to be meaningful.
Mind the Gap
Zadie Smith on global school reporting without the wonk.
The Bridge
In this excerpt from the long-awaited follow-up to his first memoir, I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti recalls the day his son, the Palestinian, saw Palestine.
Reporting Syria
How journalists Robert Fisk, Nir Rosen, and Joseph Massad have framed Syria all wrong
Amira Hass: Unsettled
Israeli journalist Amira Hass on the next Palestinian uprising and her attempts to cut through propaganda to get at the truths of the lives next door.
David Grossman: Miracle Realist
In a candid interview, the Israeli author on Netanyahu’s impotence, how his son’s death affected his latest novel, and Israel’s need to embrace Palestinians with humanity.
In Search of Dalí in Tehran
Or, how I got advice from Grandpa Moses on Jewish prayers for the notorious Evin Prison.
September 30, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
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Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group established to expose and resist U.S. imperialism, corpora-terrorism, and the New World Order. |
It’s the Occupation, Stupid: The State to Which the U.N. May Grant Membership Is Disappearing
By anyone’s measure the Israelis are winning the war of and on the land. However, the culture of occupation is a lonely place.
Robin Yassin-Kassab: Resistance Regime?
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Nobody knows what kind of regime may rise after the Asads. One thing is certain, however: if the next system is to any extent democratic or representative, it will struggle for the rights of the Palestinian people. |
How I Spent My Summer Vacation, or Adorno in Ramallah
| Screenwriter and professor James Schamus was invited to the West Bank to teach a class for Israelis and Palestinians on the role of film and art in times of crisis. Here is his report. |
Q&A with Alice Walker
| The Pulitzer Prize-winning author on her impending trip to Gaza, “SlutWalk,” and The Chicken Chronicles. |
From Alienation to Belonging
What themes preoccupy these five Arab-American writers? Body image, war, sex, and pizza. Arab-American literature is American literature, says our guest editor, Randa Jarrar.