The parallel between the personal tragedy of an individual and the collective tragedy of a people is clear in TAHA play. It is a gripping show, a one-actor monologue that made the audience weep in sorrow, empathy and compassion. Numerous, and great, articles and reviews have been written about the show, especially since it was… Continue reading TAHA in Haifa – personal review
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Yunamán in Granada live
The place: Upper Albaycin, in a sheltered street around Plaza Larga, a restaurant called “El Higo”. The time: the sun has just set behind the wide horizon, and the eastern Solemn mountain have grown cold. It’s 8:30 pm. Yunaman is a musical band of four members. This time only the couple were there: Anna and… Continue reading Yunamán in Granada live
Wajib – personal review فيلم واجب
Wajib means duty or obligation. And to understand the lives of Palestinians living in Israel it is a wajib to watch this film. The film tells the story of a torn family living in Nazareth. The mother has left for the states, while her husband stayed to raise their son and daughter. The narration uses… Continue reading Wajib – personal review فيلم واجب
The Insult – personal review
Case no.23 on the list of the high court of Lebanon: Tony Hanna, a Lebanese Christian, asks for an appeal after the local court finds Yasser Salameh, a Palestinian refugee, not guilty. The three judges, woman and two men, listen to the arguments of defense and persecution. I will not summarize the plot but I… Continue reading The Insult – personal review
Right to Movement – Haifa
The breath is relieving as much as it is hurting. The 100m sprint raised my heart rate up; I could feel my heart alive and beating. It is in these moments of intensity, that one feels and grasps what is to be alive. Hearing the music from behind me, mingled with encouragement words yalla yalla… Continue reading Right to Movement – Haifa
عن الرواية الحديثة في فلسطين – وجهة نظر
في عالم الاكاديميا يطرح السؤال التالي: هل على القارئ ان يطلع على كم هائل من المواد, الدراسات والابحاث قبل التوجه للرواية, القصيدة والمسرحية؟ بكلمات اخرى, هل على القارئ ان يكون ملم بالاساطير اليونانية, بالنظرية النيوتونية, بالثورة الصينية, التحليل النفسي لفرويد والاشتراكية لماركس قبل قراءة رواية معينة؟ هل عليه ان يقرا عن تاريخ الاسلام قبل محاولة… Continue reading عن الرواية الحديثة في فلسطين – وجهة نظر
Closer than ever- Lebanon’s ne
I live 3 hours drive south of Beirut, yet for the longest time it has been so far away. I remember when I was about 6 years old I would sit in the driver’s seat of my grandpa’s tractor, and I would ask my cousins who would hang to the side handles where would they… Continue reading Closer than ever- Lebanon’s ne
On the Lists: Best Books of 2014
ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY The “year’s best” book lists — be they 10 or 50 or 100; poetry or celeb memoirs or children’s books — are such a widespread phenomenon in English-language newspapers and magazines that the Wall Street Journal does a compilation, a master list of best-ofs: But, on the vast majority of these best-of lists, translations are still… Continue reading On the Lists: Best Books of 2014
Observations in the city of Haifa
It is 4am, I hear the faint noise of traffic. I drift to sleep. I sit in Egged bus no.37 ,a Russian couple argue about something, probably food because they’ve said Taboule, or that’s what I’ve heard. An old woman with grocery bags get into the full crowded bus, complying to my moral ethics and hearing… Continue reading Observations in the city of Haifa
AICHA BINT YUSIF 