Sourani Receives France’s National Order of Merit
In a special ceremony organized by the Consulate General of France at the French Cultural Center in Gaza City on Wednesday, 7 July 2021, and with the participation of public….
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Let Khalida Jarrar Attend Her Daughter’s Funeral
On Sunday evening, a young woman was found lifeless in an apartment at the Qaddura refugee camp in Ramallah. The woman, Suha Jarrar, was a well-known Palestinian left-wing activist and….
Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir On Her Journey To Preserve Palestinian Cinema For Future Generations
When Annemarie Jacir pitched her thesis film at graduate school some 20 years ago, her advisor told her the best place for her script was in the garbage. It was….
More big investors dump Israeli settlement profiteers
Norway’s largest pension fund KLP excluded 16 companies from its holdings over their links to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The pension fund dumped the settlement profiteers because….
Education Minister Announces Final Decision to Withhold Israel Prize From Left-wing Professor
Israel’s attorney general will now have to consider whether to defend the decision by Gallant – set to be replaced as a new coalition prepares to take the helm of government – before the High Court
Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article Without Any Factual Errors
After right-wing outrage, the esteemed journal removed an opinion piece expressing solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.
Over 1,000 Scholars and Artists call for the dismantling of the apartheid regime in historic Palestine
Over 1,000 scholars, artists and intellectuals from more than 45 countries have signed a Declaration calling for the dismantling of the apartheid regime set up on the territory of historic….
Signatories of the Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine
* List of the 1,111 signatories of the Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine (last update: September 4, 2021)
* Institutional affiliations are given only for identification purposes
Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine
Over 1,000 scholars, artists and intellectuals from more than 45 countries have signed the following declaration calling for the dismantling of the apartheid regime set up on the territory of historic Palestine and the establishment of a democratic constitutional arrangement that grants all its inhabitants equal rights and duties. The signatories include many distinguished figures, including the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Mairead Maguire, the Nobel Chemistry Laureate George Smith, academics with legal expertise Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, John Dugard and Richard Falk, scholars Étienne Balibar, Hagit Borer, Ivar Ekeland, Suad Joseph, Edgar Morin, Jacques Rancière, Roshdi Rashed and Gayatri Spivak, health researcher Sir Iain Chalmers, composer Brian Eno, musician Roger Waters, author Ahdaf Soueif, economist and former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN Sir Richard Jolly, former Vice President European Parliament Luisa Morgantini, South African politician and veteran anti-apartheid leader Ronnie Kasrils and Canadian peace activist and former national leader of the Green Party of Canada Joan Russow.
Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected
[Prefatory Note: This post is an edited text of Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s PLACES OF MIND: A LIFE OF EDWARD SAID (2021), an event under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre of Palestinian Studies, moderated by its director, Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool. Also participating in the discussion of Professor Brennan’s book Prof. As’ad Abu Khali and Dr. Kamal Khalef Al-Tawll.]