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Reporting

Watch: Christian groups decry Israeli restrictions ahead of Easter

April 14, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Ma’an News Agency on April 14, 2014. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Christian groups in Jerusalem have launched a campaign condemning Israeli restrictions on freedom of worship in advance

Palestine Reporting

Thousands run the Palestine Marathon in Bethlehem

April 11, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on April 11, 2014. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 3,000 runners from around the world took part in the second annual Palestine Marathon on

Reporting

Interview: Nadia Abu El-Haj on archaeology and the Zionist project

April 9, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on April 9, 2014. In early January, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced that it would begin excavation on an archaeological site inside a Jewish

Palestine Reporting

Designing the ‘Ceremonial Uniform’ for the Palestinian Authority: An Interview with Omar Joseph Nasser-Khoury

March 27, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on March 27, 2014. “The Ceremonial Vniform” opened to the public at Birzeit University Museum on March 20. Created by Palestinian artist Omar Joseph

Opinion

A Nowruz Uprising: Ringing in the Persian New Year with a Spirit of Resistance

March 19, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on March 19, 2014. The Persian New Year 1391 is upon us and it seems that yet again that we will celebrate amidst a climate of

Reporting USA

Palestine student group banned at Boston-area university

March 16, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on March 16, 2014. A pro-Palestinian student group at a university in Boston was banned last week in what student leaders are calling a

Reporting USA

10th annual Israeli Apartheid Week kicks off globally

March 7, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on March 7, 2014. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestine solidarity activists launched the 10th annual Israeli Apartheid Week in North America and the UK last

Israel Palestine Reporting USA

Interview: Remi Kanazi on BDS and ‘hurt feelings’

March 6, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on March 6, 2014. Remi Kanazi is a Palestinian-American poet and activist and a member of the organizing committee of the US Campaign for

Israel Palestine Reporting

New identity law raises fears of Israeli effort to divide Christians

February 26, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Ma’an News Agency on Feb. 26, 2014. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A new law to create a separate “Christian” nationality for Palestinian citizens of Israel successfully passed through the

Israel Palestine Reporting

Interview: Ilan Pappe on academic freedom in Israel and BDS

February 21, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on February 21, 2014. Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and political activist. Much of Pappe’s academic work has focused on the 1948 expulsion