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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

Academic Work Iran Israel Opinion

Next Year in Tehran

February 20, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published on The New Inquiry on Feb. 20, 2014. An Iranian intellectual’s trip to Israel in the 1960s revealed the strange appeal of secular republicanism to religious ethno-supremacists In March

Reporting

In photos: Rooftop garden flourishes atop Bethlehem refugee camp

February 16, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on February 16, 2014. In 1948, three-quarters of a million Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homes inside what is today Israel. Since

Palestine Reporting

Camp on front line of struggle against occupation

February 11, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on February 11, 2014. Tucked behind the luxurious Intercontinental Hotel in the northern edges of Bethlehem sits the crowded Aida refugee camp. Reacting to

Iran Opinion

From Tehran to Newcastle: “I Am Nasrine” and the Politics of Telling Migrant Narratives

February 10, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published on February 10, 2014 by Ajam Media Collective. “I Am Nasrine” is the first feature length-film from Iranian-British Director Tina Gharavi. Newly available on DVD, the BAFTA-nominated film

Israel Palestine Reporting

Ariel Sharon dead at 85

January 11, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on January 11, 2014. Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon died Saturday after eight years in a coma, leaving behind a bloody and conflicted

Palestine student group banned at Boston-area university

10th annual Israeli Apartheid Week kicks off globally

Interview: Remi Kanazi on BDS and ‘hurt feelings’

New identity law raises fears of Israeli effort to divide Christians

Interview: Ilan Pappe on academic freedom in Israel and BDS

Next Year in Tehran

In photos: Rooftop garden flourishes atop Bethlehem refugee camp

Camp on front line of struggle against occupation

From Tehran to Newcastle: “I Am Nasrine” and the Politics of Telling Migrant Narratives

Ariel Sharon dead at 85

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