Palestine

Fatena Al-Gharra: Movements

Fatena Al-Gharra: Movements

Yehuda Amichai: Rain on the Battlefield


Several of Yehuda Amichai's poetry books are available in English (click here for information and purchase)

Hayan Charara: Animals--On the Role of the Poet in a Country at War

Read Hayan Charara and other Arab American poets (click here for information and purchase)

Syrian Protest Literature


In addition to the authors listed here, check out the Best Arabic Books of the 20th Century (click here to be connected)

Hibakusha: Satoru Konishi

I am an A-Bomb survivor of Hiroshima.

I wonder how I can make you understand the horror of atomic bombs. I myself witnessed and experienced it but I suffered an enormous shock the next day and now retain only a few fragments of my memory. Most if it has been lost.

World War I: Palestine

The Australian Light Horse on the Move Across the Desert

 

A Halt in the Desert with the Australian Light Horse Brigade

 

Juliano Mer-Khamis: 100% Palestinian, 100% Jewish

The Actor Created a Theater in Jenin but was killed for his ideals

Conal Urquhart for the Guardian| The Observer, 10 April 2011

Jerusalem 1830: The Jewish Quarter

Bela Taraseiskey, Jewish Quarter 1830, ©2009, acrylic on canvas, 8.5 X 11 inches

The Jewish Quarter: Ha Rova Ha Yehudi, is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Immigrant


Bela Taraseiskey, Immigrant, ©1997, oil on canvas, 20 x 15 inches

In the first decade of the 20th century, some two million Jews left Russia to escape persecution. But more than three quarters of them didn’t choose to go to Palestine, but went to America instead.

The Orthodox Jews

Bela Taraseiskey, Simha, ©1994, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

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