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The Whistling of Places: A Short Text by Raji Bathish
Raji Bathish is a (relatively) young experimental Palestinian author from Nazareth who writes texts that blur the boundary between poetry and prose, and shake the Arab reader out of a naive, stereotypically heroic image of the Palestinian living in occupied Palestine.
For Cultural Purposes Only
Update : You may watch “They Do Not Exist” online here. (Tarboush tip: Laurie King) from Sight and Sound Magazine The Palestinian Film Archive vanished during the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut. Sarah Wood’s ‘For Cultural Purposes Only’ revives the memory of its contents through verbal description and drawings. Palestinian writer Adania Shibli finds her [...]
Fuzzy Math: Israel’s Dead Soldiers Numbers Don’t Add Up
This coffin apparently also contained the 120 other fallen soldiers. Israel’s deranged war on Gaza earlier this year was one of the most painful episodes in recent Palestinian history, in which one of the world’s most advanced armies devastated the towns and refugee camps they had caused decades earlier with the most brutal weaponry. Although [...]
They Waltz Like This with Bashir…
My friend from the Occupied Golan Heights just published his own review of Waltz with Bashir in al-Quds al-Arabi a few days ago. Here is my translation of it: On the Israeli Film “Waltz with Bashir”: What Fault is it of these Poor Horses that are Dying? Salim Abu Jabal The only thing that can [...]
“Welcome to Egypt!”
It must sound familiar for some of the readers who have visited Egypt and heard this (often misleading) phrase bandied around, but for journalist Laila el-Haddad this time around, it carried a completely different meaning… And seriously, when the Zionists have such great Arab allies to oppress the Palestinians for them, why do they need [...]
Enlightened by Sight
Ahmed Darwish reviews the life of one of Egypt’s most distinguished calligraphers Khan Al-Maghrabi in Zamalek has put together an exhibition of the work of calligrapher Hamed El-Uweidi to mark the anniversary of his death last year at the age of 53. The exhibition, entitled “Love and Salute”, drew crowds of art enthusiasts and calligraphy [...]
Mada al-Carmel Issues the Second Issue of Jadal
In February, I used Kabobfest to advertise the issuing of Jadal’s first issue. I will repeat my shameless exploitation of my posting privileges now that the second issue is out. Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa, a unique research center that is attempting to create the first intellectual institution run [...]
Oh, New York Times – stop trying so hard to be “objective”
If the subject of Emily Jacir’s exhibition was any different, this NYT review would be all glowing with praise for an award-winner at the Guggenheim. However, here, the writer manages to disingenuously insert that Wael Zuaiter might actually have been responsible for the Munich attacks: “In the wall text that introduces the exhibition, however, there [...]
Arab Vegans: Get Medical Supervision!
…No it’s not an oxymoron. The article is titled: “For Vegetarians: Medical supervision is Necessary”. It opens: “It is rare for someone to give up the deliciousness of meat and animal products. His/her immediate environment may find this nutritional choice repellent. Vegetarians are a minority, but they have taken a nutritional choice different from the [...]
Missile Gyrations
Can they really get any more pathetic? Could the guy at least bother to shave? And which Bollywood song is ever sung in English? They’d be better off singing it in Hebrew. You’d think with the $900 million/year they’ve been making lately from the Indians (think about how many people for how long that amount [...]
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