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Watch: Christian groups decry Israeli restrictions ahead of Easter

Posted on 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

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Thousands run the Palestine Marathon in Bethlehem

Posted on 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

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

Posted on 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

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

Posted on 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

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Palestine student group banned at Boston-area university

Posted on 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

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10th annual Israeli Apartheid Week kicks off globally

Posted on 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

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Interview: Remi Kanazi on BDS and ‘hurt feelings’

Posted on 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

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New identity law raises fears of Israeli effort to divide Christians

Posted on 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

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Interview: Ilan Pappe on academic freedom in Israel and BDS

Posted on 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

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In photos: Rooftop garden flourishes atop Bethlehem refugee camp

Posted on 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

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Born and raised in an Iranian-American family in Los Angeles, Alex Shams has long been fascinated by the stories that places can tell us. Growing up, he learned Persian and Spanish; in college, he learned Arabic and studied abroad at the American University of Cairo before moving to Beirut after graduation. After receiving his master’s in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard, he moved to Bethlehem, Palestine, where he was a journalist at Ma’an News Agency, the largest independent Palestinian news organization. He received his PhD. from the University of Chicago in Sociocultural Anthropology. His dissertation, entitled “Constructing Islamic Modernity: Power, Religion, and Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary Iran,” was based on three years of ethnographic research in Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan as well as archival research in the British Library and Ba’ath Party Archives.

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