In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains...
When Mahmoud Darwish died unexpectedly after heart surgery in 2008, he left behind a towering reputation as Palestine’s national poet, and a selection of poems which have never been translated into English. His close friend, Professor...
Born in 1977, Tamim Al-Barghouti is probably one of the most widely read Palestinian poets of his generation. His poetry readings are attended by thousands, sometimes packing stadiums and amphitheaters. The...
2017 marks a year of significant milestones in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One hundred years ago, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, calling for the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine. Seventy years ago,...
First published by Longman Green and Co, London, Palestine: The Reality had a short life due to the fact that the entire stock and the publisher’s premises were destroyed by the German Blitz in 1941.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 is a...
A blade of grass brings together, in english and in arabic, new work by poets from the occupied west bank and gaza, from the palestinian diaspora and from within the disputed borders of israel. Featuring...
This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day.
Written by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour,...
A coastal civilisation open to the world. A flourishing port on a major international trading route. This was gaza’s past. Can it be its future? Today, gaza is home to a uniquely imprisoned people, most unable to travel to the...
The Palestinians who were expelled from their homeland in 1948 tried to make a life for themselves in the cities, villages, and camps of their exile, but they never gave up their dream of return. They carried identification documents such as...
The testimonies of the Palestinians displaced from their homeland in 1948 consistently confirmed that the Zionist forces resorted to systematic forced displacement of entire Palestinian families through various means. These included bombarding...
