Tag: Gaza Strip

Remembering Kafr Qasim

How the 1956 massacre has shaped the Palestinian struggle for civil rights.

A Fraught Commemoration

A brief history of the observance and politics of Nakba day.

Palestine as Archive

What's happening in Gaza today is far from an isolated event; it's one instance of the Palestinian condition. by SHERENE SEIKALY A man and his young son sit on two cement blocks, surrounded by piles of rubble that were once their home, on the edges 

A City-Sized Prison-House

With Israeli forces besieging Gaza again, Western ambivalence is inexcusable. by LORI ALLEN A fence encircling Gaza, taken in 2005. The no-man’s-land that surrounds the entrance to the Gaza Strip from Israel is a surreal space. Most of the time, it is a hot, flat,