Mohammed Omer, the award-winning Palestinian journalist from Gaza, has embarked on a speaking tour in New York, titled ‘Structural Violence in Gaza’. This is his fourth speaking tour in the United States, and it will focus mainly on daily life under Israeli siege. Dates and locations of the speaking tour can be found at the bottom of this article. ...
From Aljazeera/PalestineHadNews – Ramallah – A group of Palestinian youth envisioning a new “national meeting” that represents the aspirations of all Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and occupied Palestine (1948) and refugees in the diaspora, and considers resistance is the only strategic option for national liberation. The document – published by the youth group of the...
Another remake of an older Doc Jazz song – this time it is the song ‘Wake Up!’, which was written during the 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon and Gaza. The song combines slow pounding hip-hop with the sound of the Arabic lute, the Ud, paired with urgent and penetrating lyrics. Click on the image to hear the song, or here...
The end of 2010 is nearing, quite shortly after the start of the Islamic new year 1432. It is obvious that the rhythm of day and night, moon cycles and earth rotations around the sun can be counted and numbered in different ways according to ones culture or religion. At work however, I am accustomed to entering the Gregorian date...
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