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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:35

A Primer for Policymakers - Book Review of Dumper's The Future for Palestinian Refugees

Michael Dumper, The Future for Palestinian Refugees: Toward Equity and Peace (Boulder and London: Lynn Rienner, 2007)

This book offers an introduction to the Palestinian refugee question in a format geared primarily towards policymakers and academics. It covers a broad range of ground and for that reason the book can be a useful tool for activists as well.

Published in Jewish National Fund (Winter-Spring 2010)

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:33

Eyal Weizman on writing Hollow Land

In the two years since the book was first published in English and the three years since it was written much has taken place. If you have taken this book into your hands you must surely know the order of events: Hamas winning the Palestinian elections at the beginning of 2006, the War in Lebanon half a year later in the summer of 2006, Hamas taking power in Gaza in the summer of 2007, the War on Gaza in 2008/2009.

Published in Jewish National Fund (Winter-Spring 2010)

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:30

Book Review: Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land

Eyal Weizman Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation London, Verso, 2007

One of the main challenges in trying to analyze the Palestinian-Israeli context is the ever-changing dynamics taking place on the territorial-political level. Time and space are complementary elements of the complex apparatus shaping and re-shaping the “reality on the ground.”

Published in Jewish National Fund (Winter-Spring 2010)

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 15:37

Why I wrote From Coexistence to Conquest

From Coexistence to Conquest was a difficult book to write. The manuscript went through so many drafts, the title, and even the subject matter changed so many times that I could probably write an article on that process alone. Initially, I had intended not to write a history book. I was supposed to write a legal book on the International Court of Justice’s 2004 advisory opinion on the Wall. But my publisher protested; “Why write a book on just the Wall?” I was asked. If I was going to do that, I was told, I must address the conflict’s history from an international law perspective to place the proceedings in context. But I was not quite sure where I was supposed to start my story.

Published in Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 15:33

Book Review: Victor Kattan's From Coexistence to Conquest

Victor Kattan, "From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1891-1949" Pluto Press 2009

Arundhati Roy has called Palestine one of “imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modern world.” Victor Kattan’s book From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949 leaves no doubt her description is apt.

Published in Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 15:06

The Pursuit of Happiness

Taha and Samih al-Qasim, in Taha's shop in the mid-50s

The prospect of writing My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century filled me with a fairly cavernous sense of dread.

Published in Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:58

Book Review of Hoffman's My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness

Adina Hoffman, "My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness" Yale University Press, New Haven &London, 454 pages

Adina Hoffman writes in a gripping rich language and with a charming poetic flare. Her avid documentary precision makes her obvious love for the subject of her biographical account and for his family, his surroundings and his people almost suspect, were such evil thoughts not rendered meaningless by her fidelity to the deeper nuances of Taha Muhammad Ali’s deceptively simple and un-classical poetry.

Published in Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:50

Child Authors Reflect on Writing Flying Home

by Sadeel al-Azzeh, Balqees Nafez al-Refai, Majd al-Khawaja & Maan Abu Aker

Published in Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:44

Book Review: Flying Home

"Flying Home" by Children of Lajee Center with Rich Wiles

Flying Home is a touching new children's story produced by youth from Lajee Cultural Center in Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, in collaboration with Rich Wiles, a British artist.

Thirty pages in length and illustrated with fifteen full-page photographs taken by the children themselves, Flying Home is a complete package. It is exceptionally well produced, an educational tool for young readers of both English and Arabic, and combines a powerful, human message that is neither culturally specific nor heavy-handed in its delivery.

Published in Nakba Education on the Path of Return (Autumn 2009)

Tuesday, 08 September 2009 10:08

REVIEW : Newly Available Women's Voice Archive

VOICES: PALESTINIAN WOMEN NARRATE DISPLACEMENT

Click here to Visit the Voices Archive online

I had my head on somebody’s lap, and I remember looking at the stars. The world seemed so big – like leaving your home which is small and structured, and going into the big wide world. It was very scary. But at the same time, as a little child, even then, looking at the sky and the stars, I was wondering what was going to happen.

Suad Andraos – exiled as a child from Jaffa

Published in Accountability and the Peace Making Process (Autumn 2007)