Regions / Middle East / Palestine

Novelist Selma Dabbagh talks to Rahila Gupta about rescuing Arab women’s sexuality from orientalist framings.

Against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Deleting posts and hiding hashtags.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Palestinian activist Iyad el-Baghdadi, a leading intellectual of the Arab Spring, talks fighting disinformation with Jan-Peter Westad.

The photos, facts and politics of Palestine

Protesting in Rome, Italy, against Israel’s annexation of Palestinian territories.

In Palestine, Futura D’Aprile meets the peaceful change-makers who want to create hope for their divided city’s future.

Report from Palestine/Israel by Aaron Drapkin.

Report from Norway by Husna Rizvi.

Peter Whittaker speaks to writer, lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh about the politics of memory in Palestine and Israel.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Jordan is nominally a constitutional monarchy with regular national and local elections. However, the façade of democracy is thin. Zoe Holman profiles the country.

Some 70,000 Palestinian workers pass through Israeli checkpoints every day. The process, which can take several hours, is disorganized and conditions overcrowded. Those without proper permits often attempt the crossing via gaps in the Israeli wall and mountain routes along the Green Line and run the risk of being arrested or even shot at by Israeli forces. Words & photography by Anne Paq / Active Stills

Palestinians in Gaza have been putting their lives on the line to challenge Israel’s decade long siege of the Strip.

No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid; Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff; Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan Wright; Sara by Sakine Cansiz, translated by Janet Biehl.

We review TootArd, from the Golan Heights, with their second album Laissez Passer, and Live at Ronnie Scott’s, by Nitin Sawhney.

The Balfour Declaration was a 67-word statement penned by Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community. Lydia Noon reports

We desperately need effective bodies to promote law and due process, writes William Bell.

An Heirloom Seed Library is rescuing ancient agricultural knowledge in Palestine’s West Bank, Giedre Steikunaite writes.