Arna

Arna’s Children: The Life and Death of Palestinian Children

by Haitham Sabbah April 13, 2007

ARNA’S CHILDREN tells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis. Arna comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre [...]

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‘Apartheid Israel’ week at Oxford and ‘Freedom of Speech’

by Haitham Sabbah February 17, 2006

Oxford University is this week holding an “Israeli Apartheid week.” Hosted by the Palestinian Society, flyers state it is to commemorate the “30th anniversary of the international convention on the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid.” Ilan Pappe from Haifa University, an advocate of a one-state solution and boycott of Israeli institutions, will [...]

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