Blogs in March 2021

The Book of Ramallah (Reading The City) 2nd March 2021

A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself… A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must...

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Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land 20th March 2020

The writings of an Israeli journalist who has chosen to live in a Palestinian town in order to provide a firsthand description of what daily life is like for the population. The only Israelis this generation of Palestinians know...

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I Saw Ramallah 19th March 2020

A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile–shuttling among the world’s cities, yet...

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