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Banging pots and pans and waving homemade banners, scores of Palestinians have expressed their solidarity with women enduring various forms of domestic violence during a lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative on Monday, which saw both women and men stand at their windows and balconies across the…

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, a band of 20 Israeli squatters diagnosed with Covid-19, who had been placed in quarantine in their squatter-settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank’s Ghor Valley, ghoulishly broke out and attacked a nearby Palestinian hamlet. They are members of the violent “Hilltop…

When four jerks explode in a plane crash, their wives decide to honor them with a group memorial. But this particular group of ladies get along about as well as Israel and Palestine, and agreeing on a venue seems all but impossible — until Eleanor proves that her mansion is…

In occupied East Jerusalem, concerns are growing the coronavirus is spreading through Palestinian neighbourhoods undetected. The number of recorded cases shot up this week to 41, but health workers fear it could actually be double that. Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports. Read More

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anchor Urban design proposal for Souks of Beirut in Lebanon by Michael Sorkin Studio, 1994. Image: Michael Sorkin Studio, via failedarchitecture.com. Michael advocated for collective, neighbourly, and walkable cities, while also practising architecture and urban design in ways that embraced these same principles. Even so, his shrewd wit always recognized…

Plus, how work can hold off despair. Photo courtesy of the artist. On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with author-illustrator Maira Kalman, whose most recent publication is an illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. They discussed the art of collaboration, how she juggles…

Writers from Tunisia, Palestine, Iraq, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States are among those honored today by the world’s most lucrative awards program for Arabic literature. At the 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners’ ceremony at Louvre Abu Dhabi. Image: SZBA By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The man is accused of trying to recruit people to launch terrorist attacks in Israel An Israeli man has been indicted on charges of spying for Iran and preparing terrorist attacks. Shin Bet, the country's internal security service, said the man had been in…

Submitted by the Event OrganizerA presentation of Orde Wingate’s fighting in Palestine. He “taught us everything we know.” (Moshe Dayan, IDF Chief of Staff). Streams live on Facebook starting at 8pm on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be…