Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 11.11.2011:
TWIP
August 2011
The assistant deputy minister at the sector of antiquities and cultural heritage of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities would not enjoy being characterised as the Palestinian Indiana Jones. He dislikes the perception of archaeology as a process of treasure-hunting, a thin step away from looting. Yet Dr. Hamdan Taha’s single-minded campaign to restore Palesti(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 07.11.2011:
TWIP November 2011
By Marian Houk
The Jericho Equestrian Club was established in 1994 by one man driven by a dream and the power of his will. It is now the only place in Palestine offering all types of equestrian activities, including sports training, horse care, entertainment, and therapy for riders with special needs. It hopes, eventually, to develop a Palestinian Olympic eque(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 03.11.2011:
A Story of Existence
By Mohammed A.K. Owaineh
TWIP November 2011
As a young child, I saw Palestinians in the diaspora as merely numbers I learned about in my “national education” books, a subject of discussion that my father and older brothers used to have, or, as I recall, videos of the massacres of Sabra and Shatila camps in Lebanon that were shown on TV. These were the(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 01.11.2011:
By George Al Ama and Nada Atrash
TWIP November 2011
Although, according to unofficial statistics, the Arab population in Honduras (most of which are of Palestinian origin) does not exceed 3 per cent of the six million inhabitants, they have contributed enormously to the economy, politics, and culture in their new country. To mention a few, the previous president, Carlos Roberto (...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 01.11.2011:
Opinion/Editorial
Has a Hollywood actress made Palestine solidarity chic?
Emily Lawrence
The Electronic Intifada
28 October 2011
For photo Tilda Swinton:
http://electronicintifada.net/content/has-hollywood-actress-made-palestine-solidarity-chic/10533#.TrAKHHI7QaN
A flick through the November issue of the British edition of Vogue revealed one ac(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 31.10.2011:
A Mentor Who Mastered Speaking Truth to Power
By Vera Ghattas Baboun
TWIP
November 2011
During the spring semester of 1992, I was one of three Palestinian students attending the Modern Critical Literary MA course at Hebrew University. On that day, as the discussion on Foucault’s Truth and Power was completed, our lecturer introduced Edward Said’s The World, the Tex(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 31.10.2011:
By Ali Qleibo
TWIP, November 2011
To Him who rides upon the highest heavens, which are from ancient times; Behold, He speaks forth with His voice, a mighty voice.
-Psalm 68
Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
-From Macbeth by Willi(...)
Contributed by Jerusalem Quarterly on 28.10.2011:
Autumn 2011,47
Behind The News Full Article PDF
Jerusalem Quarterly
The ‘Palestine Paper Leaks’ and the Sacralization of Jerusalem City Space?
Salim Tamari
Even before the crusades, Jerusalem had an enchanting hold on people’s imagination. Visitors imposed their aspirations, inner anguish, and dreams on what they saw as an eternal sacred city, whereas the w(...)
Contributed by Jerusalem Quarterly on 28.10.2011:
Autumn 2011,47
Jerusalem Quarterly
Book Reviews Full Article PDF
Morbid Symptoms: The Omar Yussef Mystery Series
Alex Pollock
The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees
Atlantic Books, 264 pp, 2006, ISBN 978 1
84354 603 0
The Saladin Murders by Matt Rees
Atlantic Books, 340 pp, 2008, ISBN 978 1
84354 648 1
The Samaritan’s S(...)
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 27.10.2011:
TWIP
September 2011
Since her first visit to Palestine during the first Intifada, when she was only 16, Diana Buttu always felt something was quintessentially wrong in the Palestinian-Israeli equation. Whether they are the people of her native Nazareth or the Palestinians of Gaza, the Arabs of Palestine were constantly being undermined and oppressed by the Israelis in one way or(...)