Ann El Khoury

Children of Gaza [Video]

by Ann El Khoury March 30, 2010

A moving, must-see video that first aired on Channel 4 (UK)’s Dispatches on 15 March. BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jezza Neumann follows the lives of three children for over a year. The children are amazing: well-spoken, reflective, resilient, understandably vengeful and fearful, but very endearing. The toll this inhumanity has taken is also clear.

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Outdoing the Kafkaesque: Egypt’s new US designed underground Gaza wall

by Ann El Khoury December 11, 2009

UPDATE 1: Paul Woodward applies a healthy dose of skepticism to these early reports. I’ve added his observations with his kind permission (see below). UPDATE 2: Sherine Tadros reports from Rafah for Al Jazeera on the barrier — video clip added below (h/t AlethoNews) By Ann El Khoury* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Just when [...]

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The Matrix of Control: from Israel to the World [Video]

by Ann El Khoury December 7, 2009

An interesting interview with the international coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) Jimmy Johnson speaking about the extension of Israel’s matrix of control internationally, from Palestine outward. This constitutes another reason why the liberation of Palestine is an international struggle, important both in its own right and because the orwellian-titled ‘pacification industry’ boomerangs [...]

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John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s Letter from Gaza

by Ann El Khoury May 28, 2009

In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008), John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Khanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”. Crossposted at PULSE & Peoples Geography

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Jeremy Salt: The disgrace of Hebron

by Ann El Khoury December 8, 2008

The infiltration of Hebron began in the wake of the 1967 war when followers of the extremist and very violent rabbi Moshe Levinger took over the Park Hotel in the centre of the city. The Israeli government claimed there was nothing it could do to stop them when, in fact, Levinger and his followers were [...]

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Clash of civilisations? Jürgen Todenhöfer’s corrective

by Ann El Khoury November 16, 2008

Earlier this year an extensive advertorial was published in The New York Times by author Jürgen Todenhöfer, based on his book Why Do You Kill Zaid? The author has also made sections of the book freely available online (http://www.whydoyoukillzaid.com/en/mainmenu/home.html — in German, English, Arabic and Persian) and is donating all of the royalties to finance [...]

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A Modern Parable For The Middle East

by Ann El Khoury November 15, 2008

Jones, a wealthy financier, had on many occasion in the good old days – when trains were flourishing and coaches were the last word in technological luxury – crossed the continent by Pullman. He was well known and well served and was accustomed to every convenience, particularly when dining. Imagine his exasperation, then, when it [...]

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‘Art Attack’: meet the new creative dissenters for Palestine

by Ann El Khoury January 17, 2008

Artist Peter Kennard meets members of a new generation of artistic dissenters in a movement spearheaded by artist Banksy, whose art has featured in Occupied Palestine as well as his native UK. Art attack by Peter Kennard | New Statesman | 17 January 2008 (cross-posted at peoplesgeography.com) Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him [...]

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Franklin Lamb: Remembering Sabra-Shatilla–a Letter to Janet

by Ann El Khoury September 14, 2007

I was very moved by this profoundly affecting piece from Franklin Lamb. He not only offers excellent reflection of this timely marker of the 25th anniversary of the terrible massacre of Palestinians at Sabra-Shatilla in Lebanon, but generously and courageously shares his personal experience. For him, this was a political massacre compounded by the very [...]

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Why Palestine Matters By Roger H. Lieberman

by Ann El Khoury July 14, 2007

Thanks as well as a hat tip to the great ladies at Jordan Journals for making this article available. (Unless you have a print subscription to the Jordan Times, this article is not freely available online, the only other site that has it requires subscription). Cross-posted at Reclaiming Space at http://peoplesgeography.com by Ann El Khoury. [...]

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