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🔗 Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’

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“Frustration that he’s not actually here to respond to the very obvious censorship that is afoot in all of the major dailies in the United States. Said could have broken through and found a hearing, at a moment when so many more people around the world are seeing for the first time what the Zionist project really is in practice.”

there can be no way of satisfactorily conducting a life whose main concern is to prevent the past from recurring.

In many instances, there is an unmistakable coincidence between the experiences of Arab Palestinians at the hands of Zionism and the experiences of those black, yellow, and brown people who were described as inferior and subhuman by nineteenth-century imperialists.

I cannot understand how raw, naked evidence can …

🔗 Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah

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It seems clear that even countries that are more or less at peace with Israel, whether formally (Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates) or informally (Saudi Arabia) have their hair on fire about the proposed Rafah operation.

Although American newspapers depict Egypt as broke, desperate and easily manipulated, my own estimation is that Cairo absolutely will not accept the Palestinians of Gaza as refugees on its soil. The Sinai is already a security problem for Cairo, and 2 million radicalized Palestinians would make it ungovernable. No amount of debt forgiveness would make such a bitter pill go down.

🔗 Country of Words

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Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that seeks to retrace and remap the global story of Palestinian literature in the twentieth century, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America.

🔗 The war in Gaza has been an intense lesson in western hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten

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That’s where the sense of losing your mind comes from: the fact that it seems, for the first time that I can think of, western powers are unable to credibly pretend that there is some global system of rules that they uphold. They seem to simply say: there are exceptions, and that’s just the way it is. No, it can’t be explained and yes, it will carry on until it doesn’t at some point, which seems to be when Israeli authorities feel like it.

🔗 Decolonize Palestine

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Decolonize Palestine is an independent, self-funded project founded by two Palestinians living in Ramallah. The research and writing for these articles have been a labor of love spanning over a year, which we plan to continue and improve upon going forward. While we are proud of this work, we know that it is has only scratched the surface of this project’s potential.

🔗 مكتبة سبيل

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مكتبة سبيل هي مشاع معرفي فلسطيني مبني على التشارك في الموارد والعمل. تهدف مكتبة سبيل لتعميم المعرفة حول فلسطين ونضالها. بإمكانكم تصفح المواد المتوفرة في المكتبة والبحث داخل نصوصها، كما وإضافة مواد جديدة. المزيد في القائمة على أعلى اليمين.

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🔗 Children living under a multi-traumatic environmen...[Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 2005] - PubMed Result

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This paper will focus on some of the most traumatic factors faced by the average Palestinian child during times of war. Unlike most research, which limits the Palestinian child's experience in war to military-related traumatic events, in this paper I will attempt to illustrate the Palestinian child's internal and external experiences, using empirical studies, my own clinical experience and an analytic understanding of historical and present events, in addition to a case study. This includes the different sources of stress and trauma that face Palestinian children and which ultimately create a multi-traumatic environment. I will also compare the situation of Palestinian children during the first and the second Intifadas.