It was attended by members of Hamas, an organisation Israel has vowed to annihilate in retaliation for its Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw around 240 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies. Israeli bombing of Gaza since then has killed mor...
“I became addicted to exile,” he elaborated in a 2000 interview withThe New York Times. “Mylanguageis exile. The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.”Mourid Barghouti, the Palestinian poet, echoed the sentiment in his memoir of exile and return,I SawRamallah(...
“Outside the gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound”, wrote French poet Alphonse de Lamartine about his visit in 1835. In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s monumental “Fighting Terrorism” on Page 103, we find,” Over the years, Gaza has become a...
when she left to pursue a master’s degree in London, she said in a telephone interview. Her painting focuses on the people who have been forced to evacuate to escape the Israeli military bombings of Gaza, where, she said, many of her friends, family members and colleagues have been kill...