Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian spoke to Zoe Holman in the West Bank about Israeli settler-colonialism, a necropolitical regime, and her latest book, Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear.
The demolition of Umm Al Hiran and displacement of its Bedouin residents is the beginning of the Prawer Plan under another name.
Israel should ensure justice for the murders of Ali and Saad Dawabshe, but its policies must fundamentally change if other Palestinian children are to have a future.
Israel invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their corresponding entitlements under the same body of law. This is the colonial nature of Israel’s legal logic.
A letter from Gaza, describing the impossibility of getting back to 'normal' one year after the war. Real change is needed before it is too late.
Fida’a is one of a growing number of female entrepreneurs in the West Bank, and women like her have been the backbone of the economy for years of prolonged unrest.
The US should allow a UN Security Council resolution that includes an end date for the Israeli occupation.
Palestinians want to leave. Nothing else. All Palestinians. Because there is not even drinking water anymore in Gaza. Even the Hamas guys in charge just want to leave.
"I don’t want my children to live my life. I’m looking for a future for my children and all children that is without occupation and violence. We have to have hope to resist.”
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East.
Despatches from a trip to the 2015 Palestinian Festival of Literature. Part two: occupation.
Despatches from a trip to the 2015 Palestinian Festival of Literature. Part one: Allenby.