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The Nakba, Voices for Palestine event with Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Grassroots Activism, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

Exeter Friends of Palestine Society Presents:
The Nakba - Voices for Palestine
Featuring: His Excellency Dr. Manuel Hassassian the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Gilad Atzmon and band, Nizar Al Issa and More…
University of Exeter, Monday May 12th, 2008:
 
On commemoration of the 60th anniversary of The Nakbah, meaning: “The Catastrophe”: The expulsion and dispossession of hundreds [...]


Richard Jones Poetry: 60

By Mary Rizzo • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine, Zionism

Today the bulldozer crawled
Into my village.
I watched the trees’ resistance,
Heard them groan and shake,
Hoping beyond hope
They could not break and after the trees bowed,
the stones ground their teeth in impotent fury,
Before they too tangled with the bones
Of lost tomorrows, in unmarked graves,
Corrupt foundations
For a shimmering, empty city,
Destruction in the myth of creation
By architects stripped of [...]


Exile Remembered, an evening of music, poetry and reflection

By Mary Rizzo • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine

The 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel is for some a day of celebration, for others a day of reflection. For Palestinians it marks the nakba (catastrophe) - when 400 villages were destroyed and 750,000 refugees fled to the West Bank, Gaza Strip and beyond.
Trócaire and Poetry Ireland invite you to [...]


My Sweet Home Palestine

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine, Resistance

A poem by Tamim Tamimi
A young man’s mature poetry of yearning. How can such a young man yearn so much? This is Palestine. This is the heart of the people of Palestine. It gives birth to pain that never goes away, a pain that makes young men grow up quickly and grow up sad, but [...]


Two Poems for the Beloved People of Gaza by Nahida Izzat

By Nahida Izzat • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Photo from Free Gaza, one of many photos of the people of Gaza.
Beloved people of Gaza
Treasured people of Palestine
Teachers of courage and dignity
Archetype of humanity
Allow me to kneel down
And wash your feet with my tears
Kiss your blessed hands
And sprinkle your beautiful faces with musk and roses
While we sat pondering like fools
Utterly helpless
Talking much and doing [...]


The Primacy of the Ear

By Gilad Atzmon • Jan 10th, 2008 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Israel, Mary's Choice, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

The Road from Music to Ethics by Gilad Atzmon
An alternative take on the Israeli Palestinian conflict and peace activism
(Postscript by Manuel Talens)Rather often I face the same question when interviewed by Arab media outlets: Gilad, how is it that you observe that which so many Israelis fail to see? Indeed, not many Israelis interpret the [...]


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