Post Tagged with: "Arab World"

Border Wall / Texas Border Wall

Scenes From an Occupation

Activists, writers and documentary photographers and filmmakers concerned with the U.S.-Mexico border wall are increasingly demonstrating the parallels between the wall in the U.S. and the Apartheid Wall that Israel is building to fragment and contain Palestinian lands.  In this review Joseph Nevins, author of Operation Gatekeeper: the rise of […]

Palestine Awareness Week March 1-11 at San Diego State University
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Palestine Awareness Week March 1-11 at San Diego State University

Sponsored by SDSU Students for Justice in Palestine Join us on Facebook at SDSU Students for Justice in Palestine Schedule of Events March 1 & 2, Tues & Wednesday Life Behind the Wall SJP at SDSU will display a mock Apartheid Wall on Campanile Walkway at SDSU depicting the quality […]

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Book Review: Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official

–Jill Holslin, San Diego State University Originally published in Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 1, no. 3-4. (June 2008) Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official by Miriam Cooke. 2007. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, pp. 196. £46.99 “Our literature never leaves the country.” These words of Syrian women writers clarify a […]

Mahmoud Darwish laid to rest with highest state honors today in Ramallah
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Mahmoud Darwish laid to rest with highest state honors today in Ramallah

By Jill Holslin Identity Card Put it on record. I am an Arab. And the number of my card is fifty thousand. I have eight children And the ninth is due after summer. What’s there to be angry about? Put it on record. I am an Arab. Working with comrades […]