A Longing for the Good Land
Author: Mahmoud al-Rimawi 08/2011
Removing the kufiyya and iqal from his grey head, Abu al-'Abd tossed them onto the dirty blanket beside him. He heaved a deep sigh, for the heat was unbearable and he did not dare to strip the Agency uniform off his thin body. The tent had no door, and there were girls and women across the way. Undoing the laces of his heavy boots, he flun...
63 Years of the Palestinian Nakba: Notes from the BADIL-Zochrot Seminars on Practical Aspects of Refugee Return
Author: Akram Salhab 08/2011
Over the past 63 years the Palestinian people have continuously and unceasingly been expelled from our homes and properties and forced to live in exile, refugee camps and ever-smaller ghettos in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. As Palestinians take stock of our struggle for justice over the past 63 years, we continue to dream ...
The Chronotope of Refugee Return
Author: Yehouda Shenhav 08/2011
Mahmoud al-Rimawi’s short story, “A Longing for the Good Land,” and three projects included here – Sandy Halal, Alessandro Pati and Eyal Weizman’s “Present Returns: Al Feneiq in Miska” of Decolonizing Architecture, Hana Farah Kufr-Bir’im’s “Re:Form-a Model,” and Einat Manoff&rsq...
Re: Form - A Model
08/2011
Hanna Farah Kufr Bir'im
Text: Norma Musih
Hanna Farah builds Bir'im, the village where his father and grandfather were born, but where he never lived. He reconstructs it in his own name, imprints it in his identity card, and erects it on ruins using models, etchings, various acts, videos, and photographs. From all th...
Al Fenieq in Miska
Author: DAAR - Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency 08/2011
The notion of “return” has defined the diasporic and extraterritorial nature of Palestinian politics and cultural life since the Nakba in 1947-8. Often articulated in the “suspended politics” of political theology, it has gradually been blurred in the futile limbo of negotiations. Our project extends the legalistic appr...
Bir'im on Caves: Archive of Archives Photo Essay, Epilogue
Author: Ayelet Zohar / Art History Department, Tel Aviv University 08/2011
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Landscape of Return
Author: Nina Valerie Kolowratnik 07/2011
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been carried out via landscape, its geography and boundaries from the outset.
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Muchayem Lagi'in Israeli'in: Of one housing struggle and another
Author: Ofra Yeshua-Lyth 06/2011
Pointing at the basic choice of Israel to be a state for only one sector, defined by its religion, as the basic cause of this country's many malaises, including the housing situation.On August 4 at 19:30 a discussion will be held in Zochrot, 13 Mane Street in Tel Aviv with the writer and Raja Ommari on the subject "Politics, Religion and Democracy...
I'm boycotting
Author: Eitan Bronstein 06/2011
More and more Facebook pages display photographs of Israeli leftists wearing buttons declaring they’re boycotting products from the settlements...
Educators teaching the Nakba in spite of political persecution by the Legal Forum for Eretz Israel
Author: Eitan Bronstein 06/2011
As in a regular ritual, The Legal Forum for Eretz Israel has asked the Minister of Education to prevent this activity organized by Zochrot. The newspaper "Makor Rishon" published an item on this last Friday, under the "intelligent" headline: Nakba Studies and Hotel Accommodation for 100 Shekels
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Ten Days of Return
Author: Husein Chawich 06/2011
It all began with an email – “The Goethe Institute in Ramallah is pleased to invite you to read from your book ….”
Husein Chawich
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A report from the BADIL-Zochrot joint actions: Practical Approaches to Refugee Return
Author: Akram Salhab/ Badil 05/2011
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