Re-examining Palestine and the region – Interview

An Interview with Palestinian political activist and young scholar Hadi Abdelhadi Alijla on Palestine and the region.  -How do you evaluate the current rapprochement between Fateh and Hamas? Is it doomed to failure like the previous agreements or this time both sides have

Who Will Rule Gaza in the Future? (By Jimmy Mattar and Ramy Jabbour)

Following the latest regional crisis between leading members of the GCC and Qatar, as well as the new political document issued by Hamas, shifts in political tactics and alliances appear to be taking shape within and outside the Gaza Strip. This paper aims

A Brief Overview of Salim Tamari’s Year of the Locust (By Bedros Torossian)

The book is short consisting of 201 pages and made up of two chapters; one of them titled “The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine,” and the second chapter is called“The Diary of Ihsan Turjman,” which forms the bulk of this book. In the Year

The Women of Palestine and the Struggle for Liberation

Hayat Al-Balbisi had always wanted to be a teacher. But her father was dead, her mother paralyzed and sick at home, her sister blind, leaving the family with no supporter. So Hayat, a student at the Teachers College in Jerusalem, decided to search

A shared agony: from Aintab to Haifa (By Yeghia Tashjian)

 Two men uprooted from their homes found sanctity in the Armenian district of Beirut. Amid war they found peace and shared the solidarity of the dispossessed, writes Yeghia Tashjian. A week ago I visited a florist on Mar Mikhael Street in Beirut to