FICTION: Escaping terror firma, Part 4 – Drowning in a sea of dashed dreams
“I fully expect to be escorted off the ship and onwards towards oblivion, first in a prison cell in Israel and then in the prison of Gaza… But then…”
Read More“I fully expect to be escorted off the ship and onwards towards oblivion, first in a prison cell in Israel and then in the prison of Gaza… But then…”
Read MoreThe Israeli government fears and combats peace and rights activists with greater gusto and urgency than armed extremists.
Read MoreMy body is seized by an overwhelming fit of shivering of epileptic proportions… “Don’t move,” a male voice commands, rather unreasonably, from amid the nervous crowd of weapons.
Read MoreBy Khaled Diab Like the Berlin Wall and other political barriers, the Israeli wall has witnessed an explosion of protest art
Read MoreWe live in a fish bowl. It would be more likely for a pink elephant to fall out of the sky than for me to get Faris alone somewhere. But the pink elephant somehow managed to land right next to me.
Read MoreIf you are or look like a Muslim or Arab, whatever you do, do not read, sweat or speak Arabic when flying.
Read MoreAs the Israeli Knesset declares war on its Palestinian members, Ayman Odeh believes the only way to salvage democracy and built peace is through a joint Arab-Jewish struggle.
Read MoreThe appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as Israel’s defence minister is like the plot of a nihlistic black comedy.
Read MoreThe Middle Eastern practice of assigning a faith to every citizen and a separate court system for each religion promotes division and sectarianism.
Read MoreA new Palestinian film fictionalises the plight of female Palestinian prisoners of conscience in Israel: from hunger-striking to child birth.
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