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 From artist Laura Harling:  The Legacy: Joe Biden displays his legacy  while Palestinian children beg for food.      Link to L...

Simon Peres, former Israeli PM, former president of Israel, former Defense Minister of Israel, and oh so respected in US official circles, o...

 This is from the anthropologist Sharif Kanaana's article, "Survival Strategies of Arabs in Israel," published in Merip Report...

      Orphaned Land were founded in 1991, led by Jaffa-born singer Kobi Farhi. Mark Levine discusses them in his book Heavy Metal Islam, and...

I think this photo, by Mohammed Salem of Reuters, is the best I've seen from the recent Gaza events, the state-sponsored mass shootin...

The great Moroccan Israeli singer Neta Alkayam covers a song from Jacob Abitbol -- father of the much better known Moroccan Jewish singer Ha...

The Electronic Intifada recently (January 28) published a set of stunning photographs, courtesy ActiveStills, of young Palestinians confron...

Syrian singer and oud player Samir al-Tawil wrote "Linda, Linda" and released it in 1967. It was his biggest hit and has been ...

As found on Mixcloud , courtesy Columbus Music Magazine, an Israeli outfit that seems to live exclusively on Mixcloud. I've no idea who ...

A YouTube video published on December 31, 2015, featuring Maurice El Medioni on keyboards and vocals, and Neta Elkayam handling the voc...

I posted what I've written below on my flickr account, but I thought it belonged here too. More photos of al-Tuwani to follow in ...

By Leeor Ohayon, published by Stamp the Wax. It's here . If you've read Amy Horowitz's excellent book, Mediterranean Israeli M...

On December 1, 2104, Eyal Sagui Bizawe, one of Ha'aretz 's most interesting writers (see what he has written about here ) published ...

UCLA Prof Gil Hochberg's book, Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone , is out soon (May 2015) from Duke Univers...

courtesy B'Tselem: "Visit the parks to see how East Jerusalem is being made Jewish and the lives of its Palestinian residents mad...

The Israeli human rights outfit B'Tselem has just won the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights Award. In my opinion, part of the reason it des...

At the World Debating Championships in Thailand in early August, the South African team put on kufiya scarves, as well as badges in the form...

Sultan Hassan mosque, Cairo, December 1961 ( Photo: Romain Swedenburg) My family made its first trip to the Middle East in De...

Yes, Pope Francis was in Palestine. He famously made a stop at the infamous separation barrier/ apartheid wall at Bethlehem, and prayed as...

Batya Shimony recently published an article called " Being a Mizrahi Jew, an Israeli and touching the Holocaust" at 972 (May 10, ...