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Poets for Palestine

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Culture and Heritage, Features, Ideas and Projects, Mary's Choice, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

It’s that time of year, when we give, if we can, something nice to people we love. The past few years on Peacepalestine, and not only at Christmas, I’ve suggested books, and this time, it’s not going to be any different. The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan was one of the best books possible to [...]

Remi Kanazi: To Exist is to Resist

By Remi Kanazi • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video

Palestinian New Yorker, Remi performs 2 of his poems.
In my mind
I’ve freed Palestine
Envisioned a dream
That just needs to be seen
Olive trees and fields of figs
Orange groves
That lead to our roads
No blocks filled with cops
No ten-year-olds shot
Freedom
Is what I got
I understand my grandmother’s plan
To live on her bought and paid for land
And though it isn’t in [...]

Remi Kanazi – Poets for Palestine book is released

By Remi Kanazi • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Artwork, Culture and Heritage, Features, Ideas and Projects, Music, Poetry, Events, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Illustration by Nasri Zacharia, Day of the Martyr
Palestinian Identity – By Remi Kanazi
I was born overseas
A refugee
With little knowledge of myself or my ancestry
Growing up in American society
I conformed to the mentality
I watched MTV
Envied actors and people who drove Mercedes
I didn’t listen to Public Enemy or read Edward Said
Comprehend the need for autonomy
I was a [...]