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Occupied Palestine: humiliation and human rights

Michael Croydon 18 October 2012

UN, international, Palestinian, and Israeli human rights organisations do important work in Palestine. But the magic 'national security' argument is always available as a tool for the government of Israel.

My friend has a story

Mohammed Suliman 27 June 2012

This isn’t my story. But it could have been, and it can be the story of any young Palestinian living in this small besieged part of the world.

The blame game, and then Toulouse...

Wasseem El Sarraj 22 March 2012

If Israel wants to keep Palestine off the map, so to speak, and exaggerate existential threats: what is the end game? There are days, viewed from Gaza, when one must feel an even graver concern for an already bleak future. And then news comes in from France...

The other Israeli war on Gaza

Sameh Habeeb 24 February 2012

The drones are unmanned aerial planes controlled by central computers in Israel. Israelis use them to monitor the Gaza Strip for ‘security reasons.’

Gaza, the ‘damn table’, and the Arab Spring

Wasseem El Sarraj 14 December 2011

The wasted years of peace talks have finally sunk in. A decent future lies ahead, but only if the Palestinians can work together on a clear and simple set of timeless goals and tactics: non-violence, Palestinian unity, justice and equal rights, if possible with international law in its corner.

Gaza: reflections on resilience

Jonathan Chadwick 8 December 2011

There is a danger in giving an account of the human damage sustained there that an image will be given of Gaza as a society of victims. Gaza is an exceptional social, political and economic space full of extraordinary paradoxes. It is not a bomb-site.

Water shortages hit Gaza under siege

Sameh Habeeb 27 September 2011

Many Israeli spokespersons maintain that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and that the siege is being lifted. Facts on the ground indicate otherwise. The water crisis is a major continuation of the siege by other means.

Why Hamas has no need for Saatchi and Saatchi.

Wasseem El Sarraj 17 May 2011

There is little evidence that suggests that sanitizing or transforming the Palestinian brand produces much of a return, at least not for Palestinians.

Health services in the Gaza Strip

Sameh Habeeb 21 December 2010

A visit to a Gaza hospital brings home the effects of a conflict that is a relentless war of attrition

Some women in Gaza

Amal Nasr 5 November 2010

There are many different social codes governing what women can and can’t do in Gaza, where new fact finding missions are beginning to take an interest in their lives

Farming in Gaza

Sameh Habeeb 12 August 2010

Our Gaza correspondent goes on a visit to the countryside, to see how farmers who have survived every sort of setback are faring this summer

24 hours in Gaza

Sameh Habeeb 15 July 2010

Our correspondent in the Gaza Strip invites you to spend the day with him

Struggling with Gaza power

Sameh Habeeb 2 July 2010

As darkness descends on more and more parts of Gaza, and temperatures soar, another kind of darkness is creating havoc with people’s equilibrium

Tunnels of Opportunity

Sameh Habeeb 28 June 2010

Our correspondent in the Gaza Strip visits a car workshop that has just got going again

Journey through thorns: a Palestinian's story

Mohamed Altawil 28 December 2009

Born in 1973, a Gazan boy turns into a man and studies to become an expert in trauma therapy. He has his own family and is separated from them. He tells us about his long journey to make a life for himself and his family, and for the Gazans he has left behind.

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Europe from the bottom up

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A new Europe can only come from the bottom up
Etienne Balibar

A social Europe must be a political Europe
Bo Stråth

As Europe is provincialized: a reply to Etienne Balibar
Sandro Mezzadra

European debate

A republican call for a basic income
Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark

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Women and the Arab Spring

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