Daoud Kuttab — The decision from the Israeli judge of the Beer Sheva Court caught advocate Maher Hanna off guard. Hanna a member of the Israeli Bar Association has been trying to get his client Mohammad El Halabi released but has run into the most bizarre case of his entire career. …

Optimism about the holding the second phase of local elections and Fatah is more popular than Hamas in West Bank cities; but three quarters of the public demand the resignation of president Abbas while Hamas’ standing, as a potential representative and leader of the Palestinian people, witnesses a setback; in Palestinian-Israeli relations, support increases for confidence building measures to improve daily living conditions.

Up to a year ago, few people had heard of Yazan Hamdan (يَزَن حَمدان), a Palestinian singer from Tul Karm, a Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank. Thanks to TikTok, his songs went viral among the younger Palestinian generation on both sides of the green line demarcating Israel’s pre-1967…

At the age of 16, Amira, the protagonist of a film that was supposed to represent Jordan at the Oscars, discovers that she is not the daughter of a Palestinian political prisoner but of his prison guard. But the provocation did not work, Palestinian prisoners’ organisations protested, and Jordan decided not to send it to the Oscars. — By Samah Salaime (Translated by Sol Salbe) The film Amira was screened as part of the Palestinian Days of Film festival. I watched it in Haifa, and after watching it I realised that it was not screened in Ramallah as scheduled.

‘Ziyara’ a film by Simone Bitton — Erem News French-Moroccan director Simone Bitton, through her documentary “Ziyara” [Visit] (2021) takes her audience on a trip to her hometown in Morocco, in search of what remains of her Jewish childhood memory, a memory shared between Jews and Muslims in Morocco. In the film, which began showing in French…

Why did prominent Lebanese author Elias Khoury join the boycott of the Paris-based Institut du Monde Arabe’s l’exposition « Juifs d’Orient » — By: Elias Khoury (Translated from Arabic) Simone Bitton’s film “Ziyara” (2021) was a great thing at the “Jews of the East” exhibition, organized by the Arab World Institute, in Paris (Institut du Monde Arabe). This exhibition comes in the midst of a major celebration entitled “Arabofolies” «ارابوفوليز», which brings together…

The Sunday Paper was launched on December 6. It is a new publication that displays the strong solidarity and co-resistances between Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Palestinian communities in ‘Australia’; communities that understand the reality of living under settler colonial occupation. “The Sunday Paper is a powerful affirmation that colonised…

“You can’t tell us how to dance” — a conversation about culture, art and activism — “The account came to life after the Palestinian protest happened in May [2020], and we were… surprised it happened and none of us Palestinians were there. So we had a Zoom call, and [were] like, ‘what the hell?’ … I was pretty frustrated when it happened. I would have loved…

The Palestine Cinema Days festival, held for the eighth year in a row, included a record number of 65 films from Palestine and other countries. On its last day, the Israeli army raided the Ramallah Cultural Palace and reminded Palestinians of the nightmarish movie in which they are trapped. — By: Samah Salaime (Translated by Sol Salbe) The Palestine Cinema Days festival ended on 8 November with a festive ceremony of awarding the Palestinian Sunbird in the category of best documentary film. The award went to director Abdallah Al-Khatib’s film, Little Palestine: A diary of a siege.