Theater as politics: an interview with Einat Weizman
Jonathan Ofir interviews Israeli playwright Einat Weizman about her play ‘Prisoners of the Occupation’ and how theater can become a vehicle for political mobilization and change.
Jonathan Ofir interviews Israeli playwright Einat Weizman about her play ‘Prisoners of the Occupation’ and how theater can become a vehicle for political mobilization and change.
Rashid Khalidi joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the US plan to build a new embassy on a plot of land in Jerusalem owned by multiple Palestinian families, including Khalidi’s. They also discuss the systemic Israeli theft of Palestinian lands beyond those privately owned and registered with title deeds.
The Israeli occupation authorities systematically and persistently target Palestinian university students for arbitrary arrest and detention. This practice, amounting to a form of collective punishment, violates Palestinian students’ rights both….
The Jordanian film “Farha,” released this week on Netflix, tells the story of an individual tragedy that took place during the 1948 war to create the state of Israel — where Palestinians, who remember the event as the Nakba, or catastrophe, were expelled from their homes by the hundreds of thousands.
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event
by Salim Tamari (Author), Issam Nassar (Author), Stephen Sheehi (Author)
First Edition (August 2022)
University of California Press
Series: New Directions in Palestinian Studies
A free open access ebook is available at www.luminosoa.org.
A film about a 1982 war crime in Lebanon shows Israeli soldiers are more open to divulging their violent actions. But their search for exoneration without accountability says much about Israeli society’s moral decay.
In a series of testimonies, Palestinians from Jaffa and Lydd recount the terrifying days when settler and police violence overwhelmed their cities.
What does the right of return mean to Palestinians, 72 years since the Nakba? Tarek Bakri’s visual documentation project offers a glimpse.
Eleven Days in May tells the stories of the youngest victims of last year’s conflict with Israel. Its directors hope its simplicity will drive home the reality of war