Palestinian writer and political analyst Yara Hawari on how language shapes narratives of violence, the weaponization of gender portrayals, and the “unchilding” of Palestinian children.
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A Guernica collection
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/
Larissa Sansour explores the Palestinian condition by using science fiction in her films and photography.
In Palestine, running can be more than an athletic endeavor.
https://www.guernicamag.com/ian-rhodewalt-running-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/
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.
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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/
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.
“Growing up, moving between the United States and Palestine made me feel as if I shed one self and inhabited another, over and over again.”
Our January issue
The West doesn’t give a shit about me.
A collection by artists from Gaza — and a call to US museums to exhibit their work.
We were never starving, but we were kept just hungry enough to feel it.
I don’t mean to hate the sparrows.
The November issue
A look at the war for independence in Africa’s last colony
Pity, when it exists, is tribal. In other words: I feel sorry for you because you are not like me.
“And, at Guantanamo, if you’re alive, you’re also a fucking terrorist.”
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/
Towards a collective, lyric “I”
https://www.guernicamag.com/teaching-poetry-in-the-palestinian-apocalypse/
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/
Ultimately, we do not want to love only the dead.
Loving Lebanon is one thing; living there is another. Generation after generation, surviving in the homeland sometimes costs too much.
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/
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/
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/
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/
Today’s playwrights and directors weigh in on politics in theater and the state of the stage in a time of upheaval.
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/
The Syrian choreographer on his latest performance.
https://www.guernicamag.com/mithkal-alzghair-dancing-displacement/
The 4000-year-old city of Jerusalem’s rich archeological history is weaponized against Palestinians.
Piecing together a fragmented Palestinian family.
In a war that remains unfinished, two Syrian-British writers acknowledge and affirm those whose stories and lives may be lost in its course.
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/
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.
Imagining a meeting with the post-colonial scholar.
https://www.guernicamag.com/anna-furman-meeting-edward-said/
An exodus, a return, and the questions that follow.
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/
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/
Female leaders from around the globe trade notes on building a new women’s solidarity movement.
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/
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.
To occupy words.
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 talks about the personal and political in her debut novel, Out of It.
When objectivity is biased.
https://www.guernicamag.com/richard-falk-subjectivity-and-wartime-journalism/
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/
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.
Chelsea Haines talks with artist Jon Rubin about the surprisingly controversial politics of serving Palestinian food in Pittsburgh.
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/
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer mines the ongoing resonance of the Camp David Accords, on stage and on the page.
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/
I admit my decision to move my family to Gaza is kind of strange.
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/
The curator on the New Museum exhibition Here and Elsewhere.
https://www.guernicamag.com/scenes-from-a-contemporary-arab-world/
you’re nothing, / absolutely nothing, / but a Palestinian.
Do Israel’s military operations against Gaza constitute war crimes?
The journalist on the rise of Israeli extremism.
Ari Shavit as harbinger of Israel’s new hard sell to American Jews.
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.”
Identity and amour in an Israeli kibbutz following the Six-Day War.
https://www.guernicamag.com/sue-william-silverman-summer-of-war-and-apricots/
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/
The filmmaker on finding inspiration in poetry and the meaning of “home” in Palestine.
The controversial author unravels the complexity of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the “inevitable tragedy” at the heart of Zionism.
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.
The activist, educator, and former leader of the Weather Underground on upholding revolutionary principles in “non-revolutionary times.”
In the occupied West Bank, “Undesirable life is ended, and unauthorized death is banned.”
An Iranian writer finds meaning and meaninglessness in the fact of her Jewish roots.
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/
On the origins of Zaytuna College, the United States’ first Muslim liberal arts institution, and the scholars and students who call it home.
An evening with Guernica at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
https://www.guernicamag.com/bravery-and-gender-in-confessional-writing/
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.
The impossible and necessary vision of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani
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.
As the disappeared from the Kurdish-Turkish conflict are unearthed from unmarked graves, will the government help deliver justice?
The demanding gifts of 2012.
https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-the-skys-the-limit/
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/
Is Ramallah’s economic boom a sign of progress or surrender?
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.
As Islamists across the Arab World continue to enshrine sharî’a concepts in their constitutions, noted academic Tariq Ramadan asks, are other alternatives available?
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 on Muslim and Western ignorance of what Shari’a law really means–and the real concerns that should be targeted.
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.
American decline in perspective, part II.
American decline in perspective, Part I.
Ahdaf Soueif begins a long-awaited book about her Cairo with the first days of the revolution that changed the world.
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Event at the Free Word Lecture Theatre featured Kamila Shamsie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and our own Michael Archer. |
The Writers Bloc essays don’t have to have a direct affect on policy or pedagogy to be meaningful.
Zadie Smith on global school reporting without the wonk.
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.
How journalists Robert Fisk, Nir Rosen, and Joseph Massad have framed Syria all wrong
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.
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.
Or, how I got advice from Grandpa Moses on Jewish prayers for the notorious Evin Prison.
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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. |
By anyone’s measure the Israelis are winning the war of and on the land. However, the culture of occupation is a lonely place.