Palestine – Page 6

August 20, 2014

Palestinian Poet Samih al-Qasim Dies at 75

Via the always excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 20, 2014 • ( 4 ) I don’t like you, death But I’m not afraid of you And I know that my body is your bed And my...

Gaza Strip / Israel / Palestine

August 15, 2014

Uri Avnery: Eyeless in Gaza

August 16, 2014 Eyeless in Gaza THE TROUBLE with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course. There you are,...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Man-made Disaster / Palestine / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

August 2, 2014

The Many Lives of a Political Poem: From Hebrew, to Arabic, to Another Life in Hebrew

via the always excellent Arab Literature (in English): BY MLYNXQUALEY on AUGUST 2, 2014 • ( 0 ) Over at The Paris Review, poet and translator Peter Cole writes about the ironic new life that Benjamin Netanyahu has given to Hayim Nahman...

Gaza Strip / Palestine

July 21, 2014

Gaza’s writers keep writing under the bombs

via The Electronic Intifada: Submitted by Sarah Irving on Sun, 07/20/2014 – 15:01 Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City on 19 July. (Mohammad Othman / APA images) Despite Israel’s relentless aerial bombardments, shelling and...

Palestine

July 20, 2014

Israeli shelling destroys poet Othman Hussein’s Gaza home

Burned books from the collection of Gaza poet Othman Hussein. (Maysoon Hussein) via The Electronic Intifada Submitted by Sarah Irving on Sat, 07/19/2014 – 17:15 The ongoing Israeli onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza has already hit its...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine

July 17, 2014

Gaza

The horror of what’s happening in Gaza is there for all to see. Here are the opening lines of Mahmood Darwish’s poem on Gaza: Gaza is far from its relatives and close to its...

Palestine / Poetry / Translation

April 23, 2014

New Palestinian poetry flourishes online

via Electronic Intifada: Submitted by Sarah Irving on Tue, 04/22/2014 – 21:52 Najwan Darwish’s new volume of poetry, out soon from NYRB Classics The last few weeks have seen a generous selection of Palestinian poetry appear...

Freedom of Speech / Journalism / Palestine

April 19, 2014

The NYT & Israel’s Gag Order

via The Electronic Intifada: The New York Times agrees to be gagged by Israel Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 04/18/2014 – 15:17 Majd Kayyal was arrested and held incommunicado by Israel’s Shin Bet....

Israel / Palestine

April 12, 2014

Uri Avnery — In One Word: Poof!

April 12, 2014 In One Word: Poof! POOR JOHN Kerry. This week he emitted a sound that was more expressive than pages of diplomatic babble. In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee...

Arab Culture / Palestine / Poetry / Translation

March 13, 2014

Mahmoud Darwish, born on this day…

… in 1941., as lynxqualey reminds us on Arab Literature (in English), going on to note that: Eleven cities around Italy are remembering his work today, keeping it in the light, and (virtually) we join them. &...