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….
Category: Columns
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….
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.]
Birzeit University calls for concrete action to end Israeli colonialism and apartheid
Birzeit University strongly protests Israel’s brutal attacks on all segments of Palestinian society, including its latest ruthless assault on the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 250,….
Attacks on the ICC must be condemned
Attempts to discredit the international criminal court and obstruct its work cannot be tolerated if we are serious about upholding justice globally, write more than 50 former prime ministers, foreign ministers and senior international officials
Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Scholars, Researchers, and Educators of the Middle East in Denmark
We as scholars, researchers, and educators of the Middle East in Denmark stand in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, as well as the 7….
In Solidarity and Empathy, As musicians, we…
In Solidarity and Empathy, As musicians, we cannot be silent. Today it is essential that we stand with Palestine. We are calling on our peers to publicly assert their solidarity….