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An Impecunious Adventurer Ninety-nine and a half years after Britain and France reached the secret Sykes-Picot agreement to carve up Arab territories of the defunct Ottoman empire and on the 98th ...
Read moreWilliam Yale Book Review Dr. Janice Terry's recently published book, William Yale: Witness to Partition in the Middle East, World War I-World War II sheds a bright light on the machinations of Amer...
Read more"غزة اليتيمة" مجموعة قصصية جديدة صدر مؤخرًا عن دار منشورات الرمال للنشر المجموعة القصصية "غزة اليتيمة"، للكاتب الفلسطيني محمود جودة. تضم "غزة اليتيمة" 27 قصة تدور حول الواقع الإنسانى للمواطن الفلس...
Read moreقصص ترصد الحياة تحت القصف قصص ترصد الحياة تحت القصف في "غزة اليتيمة" للفلسطيني محمود جودة القاهرة في 23 سبتمبر / بنا / صدر حديثاً عن دار "منشورات الرمال"، المجموعة القصصية الموسومة بـ"غزة اليتيمة"...
Read moreالطائرات تفعل ما تُؤمر به بكلّ دِقّة في كتاب «غزة اليتيمة» للفلسطيني محمود جودة: الطائرات تفعل ما تُؤمر به بكلّ دِقّة في المسافة بين كتابة القصة الخبرية الصحافية، وكتابة التقرير الإخباري التلفزيون...
Read moreHard Choices in a Land of Hardship The very name Gaza brings to mind the hardships its inhabitants have to deal with, chiefly Israeli aggression and occupation, and the resulting poverty, devastat...
Read moreمجموعة قصصية توثق المعاناة تحت العدوان في غزة "لندن ـ "راي اليوم": صدرت للاديب الفلسطيني محمود جودة مجموعة قصصية بعنوان "غزة اليتيمة" عن دار "منشورات الرمال"، وصممت الغلاف الفنانة الفلسطينية المعر...
Read moreمحمود جودة والعشر الأخيرة في غزة اليتيمة عمد الاحتلال إلى استهداف المنازل والأبراج السكنية في اقسي حرب مر بها القطاع حيث الغالبية دون تحذير مسبق فأبيدت عائلات بأكملها وشطبت للأبد من السجل المدني ....
Read moreAhmed Masoud's novel of a father's disappearance in Gaza In this absorbing debut novel the Gaza-born Palestinian-British writer Ahmed Masoud tells of the obsessive quest of a young Gazan, Omar Oud...
Read moreمختارات مجلّة أسبوعيّة بعد ثلاثة أعوام على صدوره بالإنكليزية، بات يُمكن للمهتم قراءة الترجمة العربية (ثائر ديب، منشورات الرمال) لكتاب يقرأ لبنان كـ«ساحة معارك الشرق الأوسط». والعنوان تعبيرٌ لميخائي...
Read moreFear and self-loathing in Gaza There is an act of violence in Ahmed Masoud's Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance Of Mustafa Ouda that reverberates throughout the novel. An act done in a perfunct...
Read moreVanished in Gaza Vanished, by Palestinian-British author Ahmed Masoud, takes readers into the besieged Gaza Strip where Mustafa Ouda has mysteriously disappeared. Omar Ouda lives in London but his ...
Read moreVanished - book review Read "Vanished" and see why Ahmed Masoud's first novel cuts to the heart and through to the core of Palestine's troubles. Taking inspiration from everyone everywhere he publi...
Read moreBook of the Month: Vanished I did not want to write a novel that would just tell another story about the occupation in Palestine and the suffering we endure as a result. I wanted to dig deep into o...
Read moreThrilling new novel Ahmed Masoud has used his experiences of Gaza to write Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda. Ahmed Masoud, who graduated from London Met in 2004 with a BA and...
Read morePreserving Culture Widad Kawar is a woman of spirit and grace, a benefactor of the entire Arab world. She has spent more than half a century collecting traditional Arab costumes, jewellery, and ho...
Read moreReflections from Palestine As I am a person who happened to face war and lived the era of occupation and the Intifada: I always say and will keep saying: "Definitely every Palestinian woman has a s...
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This Interview was filmed for the 2013 Edward Memorial Conference organised and held during the 2013 Treaty of Utrecht programme at the Centre for the Humanities of Utrecht University. A World I L...
Read moreThe Path of a Country Some books deal with theory or recount history but this book seems to be largely the transcript of a long conversation between Niyazi Kizilyürek and Glafkos Clerides. Because...
Read moreWhy is this Woman Smiling? A Book Review of Reflections from Palestine: A Journey of Hope a memoir by Samia Nasir Khoury is also a most necessary history lesson. My copy is the third Samia sig...
Read moreNietzsche's Camel Must Die "I often found myself wondering, as I was reading Rewa's essays: How much does a heart weigh? I mean an "empty" heart, without the extra load of love, pain, sorrow, pass...
Read moreHistoric Nicosia Possibly the most comprehensive historical treatment of Cyprus's capital ever undertaken, this weighty volume portrays Nicosia from the Early Neolithic some 7000 years ago to its ...
Read moreReflections from Palestine Samia Nasir Khoury celebrated her eightieth birthday on Sunday, 24 November 2013. This was also the final day of the Ninth International Sabeel Conference. Following a se...
Read moreReflections from Palestine tells the story of life under occupation. It is a story that Khoury¸ who celebrated her 80th birthday on the day of the book launch, has told for many years. The book ope...
Read moreReflections from Palestine Several books appear on the shelves every month about the Occupation of Palestine. Very few of them are actually written from within Palestine, and even fewer are writ...
Read more'A Most Devoted Couple’ GLAFCOS Clerides' lost his wife of 60 years, Indian-born Lila Irene in June 2007 at the age of 86. Lila's marriage to former RAF wireless operator/gunner Glafcos, was consid...
Read moreHow the West Lost Respect for International Law An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law Review by Robert Fisk One Nor...
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