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Arab Film on Israeli Television: An Interview with Eyal Sagui Bizawe

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Jadaliyya on July 7, 2015. Eyal Sagui Bizawe is an Egyptian-Israeli artist who with Sara Tsifroni co-directed the recently released documentary “Arab Film”. It tells the story

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Palestinian drivers pay the price as Israeli police patrol West Bank

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Alex Shams

To travel the one-hour trip from Ramallah to Bethlehem, drivers have to pass through a total of five different regulating authorities

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Seattle mayor’s Israel trip highlights dangers of ‘pinkwashing’

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on the Washington Blade. Ed Murray (Photo by Ryan Georgi; courtesy Wikimedia Commons)   On Monday, Seattle mayor Ed Murray touched down in Israel as part of a

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Armenians in Palestine face uncertain future

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Al Jazeera.  The community is under threat, residents say, amid problems with Israeli policy and economic malaise. Church officials say the number of Armenians in Palestine has

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Jerusalem family fights against all odds to prevent eviction

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Ma’an News Agency on April 22, 2015. JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — On a small alley in Jerusalem’s Old City, a Palestinian family is fighting both Israeli government and Jewish

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Palestinian village imprisoned in holy shrine of Nabi Samuel

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ma’an News Agency on February 12, 2015. NABI SAMUEL (Ma’an) — The tomb of the Biblical prophet Samuel is blessed with a stunning view over Jerusalem from

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After police killings, anger simmers in Negev Bedouin villages

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Ma’an News Agency on Feb. 5, 2015. BEERSHEBA (Ma’an) — The killing of two Bedouin youths in southern Israel by police over the last week has shocked the

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Group calls for Orthodox church reform over alleged Israel land sales

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Ma’an News Agency on Jan. 14, 2015. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Christmas is a time for holiday cheer in Bethlehem, as thousands from across Palestine and around the world

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Israeli discourse of sexualized violence rises amid Gaza assault

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Ma’an News Agency on Aug. 6, 2014. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — As the bombs have been falling on Gaza over the past four weeks, another war has been ongoing

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Israel and the Palestinian Territories Lonely Planet: Systematic Erasure and Casual Racism

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Jadaliyya. Haifa is a picturesque city of hills, gardens, and trendy cafes perched along the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel. If the Lonely Planetguidebook is

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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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