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Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam
A Three Part InterviewPart 1 – Howard Shippin “I live as If the future is now” Fifty-five families live in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam situated along Isreal’s infamous green line. The community keeps...
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At Guernica, Randa Jarrar writes about this one time when she tried to visit her sister in Palestine and she was deported by Israel.I was so afraid of facing the guards at the airport that I had a...
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A Meaningful Light: Open Letter to Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times
Dear Kenneth,A cold October wind bore down College Avenue in Berkeley as I waited in a long line outside of the Rialto Cinema. I shivered. The queue was stuffed with middle-aged patrons for the 7...
View ArticleGaza Roundup
There’s more violence in Gaza today. Emily Hauser asks a tough question about Israeli claims that its strikes are surgical and aimed at terrorists.The IDF used social media to announce and live-blog...
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The Big Idea #7: Fady Joudah
When I studied English at college in the 1970s, the New Criticism, a school of literary theory first established in the 1920s, was still the rage. The New Criticism holds that it isn’t necessary to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #1
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Tel Aviv, Israel in June 2014.***Click image to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #2
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Bethlehem, West Bank in July 2014.***Click image...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #3
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Jerusalem in July 2014.***Click image to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #4
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from East Jerusalem in July 2014.***Click image to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #5
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Tel Aviv, Israel in June 2014.***Click image to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #6
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Bethlehem, West Bank in July 2014.***Click image...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #7
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Haifa, Israel in June 2014.***Click image to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #8
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from a settlement in East Jerusalem in July...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #9
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Tel Aviv, Israel in June 2014.***Click image to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #10
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Haifa, Israel in July 2014.***Click image to...
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Spotlight: Small Stories #11
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014. This story comes from Haifa, Israel in June 2014.***Click image to...
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Fresh Comics #2: Transmissions from Beirut
What are the fundamental differences between telling your own story, telling the story of another, and telling your story about trying to understand someone else’s story? I’ve been pondering this...
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Of Gardens and Graves by Suvir Kaul
After Shahid: Kashmiri Poetry in TranslationWhen you read the poetry of Najwan Darwish, the young Palestinian poet, who is no relation of Mahmud Darwish, you realise the disconnections are even...
View ArticleWriters for Human Rights
Hundreds of writers around the world are protesting Saudi Arabia’s death sentence of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, accused of promoting atheism in his 2008 book of poetry Instructions Within. As a...
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Ehrenreich
I should tell you that although I haven’t known him too long, I became instantly fond of Ben. I live in a small area of Los Angeles along the LA River between Echo Park and Glendale. The river covered...
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