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Published in: HomePalestine, Israel, and the United States: Reframing the dominant narrative
It is time that this Palestinian narrative is given equal weight with the Israeli narrative in the American...
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Published in: HomeThe flotilla and the siege – resistance and complicity
While the second flotilla to Gaza prepared to set sail this week under the motto ‘Stay Human,’ Europe moved a step...
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Published in: HomePalestinian statehood: a turning-point
The Palestinian ambition of becoming a full member-state of the United Nations is approaching a crucial moment. A...
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Published in: HomeAfter Obama’s Middle East speech: save Palestinian reconciliation
To get beyond the current impasse in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the "Quartet principles" need to be abandoned in...
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Published in: HomeBonfire of the experts: the Arab uprisings and the Israeli-Palestinian question
We need to understand that patience on the Palestinian side has almost completely run out after many fruitless years...
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Published in: HomeWhy Hamas has no need for Saatchi and Saatchi.
There is little evidence that suggests that sanitizing or transforming the Palestinian brand produces much of a...
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Published in: HomeThe Hamas-Fatah unity deal: regional and international power dynamics
Despite the best efforts of the US and its European and regional allies to ignore them, international and regional...
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Published in: HomeGaza on my mind
The latest of the theatre director’s ‘strange days’ in Cairo, while waiting to hear if he and his partner have...
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Published in: HomeGaza Theatre
A theatre director is stuck in Cairo waiting to hear if he and his partner have permission to enter Gaza. These...
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Published in: HomeJuliano Mer Khamis, 1958-2011
In memory of the Jewish Palestinian and Israeli actor, director, film-maker and activist who founded the Freedom...
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Published in: HomeWhy reconsider your report Judge Goldstone?
A Palestinian student asks why the report was retracted, what kind of pressure did Richard Goldstone come under, and why now?
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Published in: HomePalestine and the lottery ticket
An interview in January 2011 with Dr Mohammad Shteyyeh - President of the Palestinian Economic Council for...
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Published in: HomeTowards statehood: three Palestinian interviews, January 2011
The problems inside Palestinian society as well as those between Palestine and Israel have solutions. The process...
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Published in: openSecurityTahrir Square burns: a postcard from Egypt
An American in Cairo reflects on the experience of events there today and calls on the US to throw off its ties to...
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Published in: openSecurityEgyptians defy government ban in second day of protests
Egyptians defy government ban in second day of anti-government protests. Tunisia issues arrest warrant for Ben Ali....
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Published in: HomeThe Palestine Papers
It is highly plausible that the Palestine Papers will only serve to prolong the conflict. But it is also possible...
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Published in: HomeHealth services in the Gaza Strip
A visit to a Gaza hospital brings home the effects of a conflict that is a relentless war of attrition
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Published in: 50.50Some women in Gaza
There are many different social codes governing what women can and can’t do in Gaza, where new fact finding missions...
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Published in: HomeThe voice of Hamas
After escaping an assassination attempt in 1997 and being banned from Jordan in 1999, Khaled Mashal, Hamas leader,...
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Published in: openSecurityIsraeli-Palestinian peace will isolate Iran, suggests Peres
Israeli President calls for Israeli-Palestinian peace as a means to isolate Iran. As the US and Pakistan foreign...