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Double feature video! Doc Jazz Intifada & Mirna Sakhleh excerpt from "7 Palestinian Children"

By Guest Post • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video

Doc Jazz and his band perform a song from their album "Front Door Key". Intifada!

and this video is an excerpt of playwright Mirna Sakhleh's "7 Palestinian Children", inspired by Caryl Churchill's "7 Jewish Children".



Hany Abu Assad – Short Film: "A Boy, A Wall and a Donkey"

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, Zionism

This beautiful short film was produced in the series sponsored by the EU commission on Human Rights.
A must watch clip.



Palestine c/o Venice, events in the Venice Biennale and conference

By Guest Post • May 23rd, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Ideas and Projects, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

 (in the picture, Stateless Nation by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti)
On 5 June there will be a Symposium that accompanies the events, lasting until 30 September. In the Symposium, issues to be discussed will focus on art in the time of perpetual crisis, the role artists play in civil society as activist and as [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Gaza artists deliver hope out of the womb of destruction

By Iqbal Tamimi • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Culture and Heritage, Internet and Communication, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Israel should realize by now that the Palestinian nation is indestructible. A nation that was born from the womb of a great civilization is hard to defeat regardless of the methods or the variety of arms used to attack them. Nothing ever will break their spirit. Israel keeps destroying and Palestinians keep rising up from [...]



Wounds Of the Heart: An Artist and Her Nation

By Guest Post • Apr 18th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine, Resistance, Video, Zionism

SEE THE TRAILER OF JOHN HALAKA'S FILM ON PTT TV!
Born and raised in the village of Tarsheha in the Galilee, Rana Bishara is a Palestinian Visual Artist whose creative practice includes sculpture, installation work and performance art. Her artwork functions simultaneously as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic term for The Great Disaster [...]