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Diaspora scatters stories, but memory refuses erasure. In βPortfolio of Stolen Memories,β Rand Abdalqader weaves poems, heirlooms, invoices, and oral histories into an anticolonial archive of her Palestinian familyβs life before and after the Nakba.
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Join us for a timely conversation with Dr. Tareq Emtairah of @TaawonOrg on the crisis facing Gazaβs orphans and how civil society is responding.
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A garden in Gaza: once rubble, now a lifeline. In this essay, Mariam Mushtaha shows how tending mint and basil became a way to resist hunger and reclaim dignity under genocide.
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What does it mean to walk through Elias Khouryβs novels? In Beirut, an art installation recreates his worlds of memory, exile, and love, one year after his passing.
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βMy grandmother survived the Nakba. Will I survive this?β
In her latest piece, Areej Almashharawi writes of loss, displacement, and resilience, tying her grandmotherβs story in 1948 to her own forced evacuations today in Gaza.
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Western media reframes Gazaβs genocide as Netanyahuβs failure, turning systemic settler-colonial violence into the story of one man. Jwan Zreiq writes that narrative itself has become a battlefield, where memory, mourning, and resistance are at stake.
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From olive groves seized behind the wall to murals in Bethlehem and youth football in Aida refugee camp, Palestinians resist erasure through land, art, and community. Dalal Radwan writes on life, creativity, and defiance under occupation.
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In this interview, Asem Alnabih, spokesperson for Gaza Municipality, describes the devastation of Gaza City and the collapse of civic life, while insisting that any reconstruction must be led by Gazans themselves.
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In Gaza, Areej Almashharawi teaches kids English words like βtentβ and βwarplaneβ while starving herself. Her essay Gazaβs Last Call is a plea for justice, not pity.
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Quadcopters bomb grazing donkeys. Soldiers shoot them for sport. Others are stolen and sent abroad. Israel calls this βrescue.β In Gaza, itβs the destruction of the last threads of mobility. Report by Mohammad al-Naami.
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Two years of genocide have stolen Gazaβs time. For Ghada Abu Muaileq, youth was spent between rumors of peace and the reality of famine, bombings, and aid lines that end in blood.
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Ziad Rahbaniβs genius was never apolitical. From βWahdonβ to βTal el Zaatar,β his music, plays, and satire wove art into the fabric of resistance. As Maysaa Ajjan writes, his legacy proves that for Rahbani, art was always a political act.
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Israel has turned Gazaβs aid lines into death traps. Families come with hope for flour or beans. They leave blinded, paralyzed, or dead. Since May, Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 people while they waited for food. Report by Sumaya Mohammed.
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It was a real honour and privilege to engage in dialogue with @laythco.bsky.social for @palestinestudies.bsky.social about healthcare in Palestine.
Read here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
In conversation with @laythco.bsky.social, Dr. @yipengge.bsky.social exposes Israelβs βchoreography of destruction,β a campaign that besieges and empties Gazaβs hospitals, turns them to rubble, and targets the doctors who keep them alive.
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"Children are not starving because food is scarce. They are starving because the borders are closed. Because aid is blocked. Because food convoys are targeted...
Gaza is not starving. Gaza is being starved. And the world is watching."
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Palestinian activist and teacher Odeh Hathaleen was shot dead by a settler. His body is still being withheld. The killer walks free. Odehβs story is not the exception -- It is the rule in the West Bank.
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βWhen a student falls unconscious, we just assume they have not eaten for two days. And we move on.β
Eman Basher spoke to Dr. Izzedin Shahin, who works while starving, stitching wounds that wonβt heal for lack of protein.
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As Columbia University agrees to a $200 million settlement with the Trump administration, professor Rashid Khalidi slams repression of pro-Palestinian voices at the school and says the institution's leadership seeks to "protect Israel from criticism at all costs."
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Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.
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Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.
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@nadinebahour.bsky.social examines how Israel has used hunger as a central tool in its campaign against Gaza, blocking aid, targeting farms and food warehouses, and creating deadly aid sites. Starvation is a calculated weapon of war.
Read the policy paper: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Amid bombs and blackout, Malak Hijazi finds refuge in books. From Simone de Beauvoir to Muin Bseiso, she reads to endure, to resist, and to remember. A moving account of life, loss, and literature under siege.
Read Malak's diary: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Urgent letter to Pope Leo XIV from Palestinian journalist Hind Shraydeh, writing from occupied Palestine. She pleads for action as Gaza faces mass death, hunger, and the destruction of churches and lives. βGaza is betrayed by everyone it once trusted.β
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Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the universityβs deal with the Trump administration & adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide.
His open letter: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
This week we hosted @yara-asi.bsky.social and Bushra Khalidi for a webinar on how Israel's famine is unfolding in Gaza, how it was enabled, and what must be done to address the disaster and its lasting effects. Watch here:
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Gazaβs high school students prepare for final exams by candlelight from shelters, under bombardment, grief, and blackout. Others shoulder family burdens after loss. For many, education is not just learning. It is survival.
Suha Samiβs full report:
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In Gaza, even language is weaponized. Israeli soldiers leave behind graffiti that degrades, mocks, and haunts. Donya Abu Sitta reflects on how words, like bombs, can wound and occupy the ruins of homes and minds.
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She once studied poetry under Refaat Alareer. Her mother made her egg sandwiches every morning. Her home and university are now rubble. Her mother and professor were taken in the war. In Gaza, Shahad Ali writes about all that was lost, and what survives.
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When the classroom is a tent and the dream is survival. In Gaza, students study by flashlight, under bombs, and through grief. This powerful essay by Taqwa al-Wawi honors their defiance and asks: how do you dream when your school no longer exists?
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