This morning we received news through Facebook that Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, formerly of the faculty of Duke and Yale University, and now teaching at Bethlehem University, was arrested yesterday for objecting to an expanding settlement in a Palestinian town. Today, he and two others were released again. Five people from Walaja remained imprisoned by the Israeli army at the publishing...
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...
In this article published in the November edition of Middle East magazine, Randa Safieh talks to some of the artists from the Lyrical Alliance collective, inspired by the legendary ‘Mu’Allaqat‘ poems, which performed in Camden last month. Last month Dash Arts and the Camden Roundhouse presented a collaboration of some of the most prominent Arab hip-hop heavyweights. It was a...
Tariq Shadid – Réfléchissons un instant au sens de “fuir”. Quand quelque chose fuit, on comprend habituellement qu’une substance fluide supposée couler dans une certaine direction s’échappe de sa trajectoire prévue à cause d’un défaut de la structure construite pour la guider. Habituellement, si un tuyau fuit dans votre circuit d’eau, votre problème principal est que vous ne parvenez pas...
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