“We are the boat / returning to dock / we are the footprints / on the northern trail / we are the iron / colouring the soil / we cannot / be” from ‘Refugee’. Remi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the...
“We are a people who tell stories, Layla. You will now have your own story to tell.” Layla Anwar is a young Palestinian born into a land plagued with war and an apartheid regime. She knows all too well what it means to be an outcast,...
More than twenty years have passed since Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation concluded the Oslo Accords, or Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements for Palestine. It was declared "a political breakthrough of...
Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been travelling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. He has witnessed the extremes to which they are...
Palestinian sociologist and activist Anan Ameri weaves her sometimes poignant, sometimes funny personal experiences with the historical, political, and social changes that dominated the region in which she lived during the first thirty years of...
Focusing on the complicity of IsraeliUniversities in maintaining the occupation of Palestine, and on the repression of academic and political freedom for Palestinians, ‘Against Apartheid’ powerfully explains...
Picking up where Tasting the Sky left off, Balcony on the Moon follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 and chronicles her desire to be a writer. Ibtisam finds inspiration...
Butterfly is an ordinary teenager living under the extraordinary circumstances of military occupation. She is shrewd and perceptive. That is not enough to deal with the daily turmoil of life under harsh and stressful circumstances. She’s not...
In 2005, a group of photographers took a stand alongside the people of the small town of Bil’in, and documented their fight to stop the Israeli government building the infamous West Bank Barrier. Inspired by what they had seen in...
In Palestine today, a second generation is growing up experiencing life under occupation. Young Palestinians Speak provides a platform for children and young people, from all over this occupied land, to speak in their own voices about...
