Toward a New Language
Author: Eitan Bronstein 10/2011
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Overdue Books: Returning Palestine’s “Abandoned Property” of 1948
Author: Hannah Mermelstein 09/2011
his study will focus solely on the 6,000 books with the “AP” designation, and aims to contribute to uncovering a particular historical episode and to offer suggestions on how to move forward with the information the study gathers. It will place the story of Palestine’s looted books in the larger political contexts of Zionis...
In the Absence of an Iconic Image
Author: Aviv Gross-Alon and Eitan Bronstein 09/2011
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Three stories
Author: Miri Litvak 08/2011
Great Uncle Garik works at the university now. He and his friends invented a method for electromagnetic measurements that measure something in the water. Grandpa explained to me that this is a very important scientific invention and that they even wrote a story about it in Haaretz. Grandma showed me the story with a picture of Great Uncle Gari...
A Longing for the Good Land
Author: Mahmoud al-Rimawi 08/2011
Removing the kufiyya and iqal from his grey head, Abu al-'Abd tossed them onto the dirty blanket beside him. He heaved a deep sigh, for the heat was unbearable and he did not dare to strip the Agency uniform off his thin body. The tent had no door, and there were girls and women across the way. Undoing the laces of his heavy boots, he flun...
63 Years of the Palestinian Nakba: Notes from the BADIL-Zochrot Seminars on Practical Aspects of Refugee Return
Author: Akram Salhab 08/2011
Over the past 63 years the Palestinian people have continuously and unceasingly been expelled from our homes and properties and forced to live in exile, refugee camps and ever-smaller ghettos in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. As Palestinians take stock of our struggle for justice over the past 63 years, we continue to dream ...
The Chronotope of Refugee Return
Author: Yehouda Shenhav 08/2011
Mahmoud al-Rimawi’s short story, “A Longing for the Good Land,” and three projects included here – Sandy Halal, Alessandro Pati and Eyal Weizman’s “Present Returns: Al Feneiq in Miska” of Decolonizing Architecture, Hana Farah Kufr-Bir’im’s “Re:Form-a Model,” and Einat Manoff&rsq...
Re: Form - A Model
08/2011
Hanna Farah Kufr Bir'im
Text: Norma Musih
Hanna Farah builds Bir'im, the village where his father and grandfather were born, but where he never lived. He reconstructs it in his own name, imprints it in his identity card, and erects it on ruins using models, etchings, various acts, videos, and photographs. From all th...
