Photo by: El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe

Now this is the most disgusting piece of news I’ve read today:

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. - Officials in Old Saybrook have canceled performances by a Palestinian dance troupe after getting a complaint that it is offensive to Jews and Israel.

The decision involves planned performances at the town’s elementary and middle [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about Nadia’s post about sexual violence and historical trauma. In the post, Nadia states:

Reading this article makes me think about the types of historical trauma we as Palestinians, and Arabs in general, are carrying around with us. When Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart speaks about sobbing uncontrollably after viewing a [...]

I’m not going to compare religions here, everyone has his own sh*t.

Have you heard of “Israel’s modesty buses”? In case you didn’t, this is not a good story for those who care about women’s right.

When on the bus, I tried to buck the system, moving my way towards the driver but was pushed back towards [...]

Palestinian-American poet and political activist Suheir Hammad.

She –author of three books, two-time winner of the Audre Lord Writing Award, and co-recipient of the 2005 Sister of Fire Award– is what you would call a “political poet.” This longtime Brooklyn resident sees her poetry as news, containing the power to influence and illuminate the world. She [...]

Like Christians worldwide, the Nassar family is preparing for Easter this week. And like most of their neighbors, this year they will celebrate only once.

Go ahead and see the great Palestinian food recipes included and pass them around to your friends.

[Via: altmuslim.com - by Zahed Amanullah] Eleven year old Asmahan Mansour was ejected from a soccer game in Quebec for wearing a hijab, despite being allowed everywhere else she played. In Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 film Bend it Like Beckham, the young, female, British Indian protagonist fought against the prejudice of her well-intentioned family to pursue [...]

By Haaretz Service

“If our fighters deep in Lebanese territory are left without food our water, I believe they can break into local Lebanese stores to solve that problem,” Brigadier General Avi Mizrahi, the head of the Israel Defense Forces logistics branch, said Monday.

Mizrahi’s comments followed complaints by IDF soldiers regarding the [...]

This movie is about the wall of hate that “Israel” created to isolate the real people off their land; the Palestinian people…

You can find more about the film from The Wall of Hate web site, here…

Now, Chromovision is planning the production of a new documentary film to highlight the atrocities that have been and are [...]

It was pleasant to read a small news piece in al-Watan newspaper this morning, which states some figures about increasing numbers of visitors through King Fahd Causeway to the Kingdom of Bahrain during last June compared to the same period last month.

The newspaper report that 316,757 car carrying 625,552 passengers passed the bridge between Saudi [...]

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…

Summer holidays, women rights, war in Iraq and war in Palestine. These are some of the permanent scene in the Arabic language blogsphere these days. Here is some of what few bloggers said:

The daily life of a [...]