The replacement of the Ottoman Empire’s rule over Jerusalem by British forces in 1917 and the imposition of a British Mandate on Palestine by the League of Nations in 1921, created a new era of urban development in Jerusalem.
More than a century on from the Balfour Declaration, more than 50 years since the fateful war of 1967, and a full decade into the inhuman siege of Gaza—painfully, absurdly, almost unbelievably—the Israel-Palestine conflict rolls...
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...
Ever since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in 1917, Jews and Arabs have struggled for control of the Holy Land. Israel's independence in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust was a triumph...
After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer...
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...
