In the early 1970s, the famous comedian Richard Pryor joked: “If you’re going [to the courthouse] looking for justice, that’s what you’ll find – just us.” The phrase has since been repeated in various scholarly and artistic forms including rap music, where it has sometimes taken different meanings, but often still in relation to police […]
This essay presents a visual account of the Israeli settler-colonial encroachment into Palestinian land. Based on my experience, and adopting a settler-colonial theoretical framework focused on studies of genocide and the tradition of documentary photography, I provide a participant-based analysis and visual documentation of Israel’s destruction of Palestinian land and uprooting of its ancient olive
CRITICAL ART OR POLITICAL ART often plays a significant role in disrupting the status quo by challenging systems and structures of power. It can revise and counter the dominant histories of the “victors,” engage with and confront socio-political conditions, and foresee a better world. Critical art has the potential, through its various forms and interventions,
ABSTRACT This paper examines how fellahin resistance beginning in the early parts of the 20th century interacted with the Zionist settler-colonial project, focusing on how this resistance operated on a complex understanding of the relation between the fixity of place and flux of space. Thinking this resistance alongside theories of colonial occupation as well as
Farah, Randa (2018) (in Arabic) “al-Unrwa: ramz haq al-awdah” (UNRWA: Symbol of the Right of Return) al-Akhbar (The News), Jan 31, 2018, at: http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/290095
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Farah, Randa (2016). “The Darker Shades of Exile”. In Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora. Yasir Suleiman (ed.), Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 151-160.
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Farah, Randa (2016) (in Arabic) “al-Nakba wa Tareeq al -Awdah” (Nakba and the Road of Return), al-Akhbar (The News), May 13, 2016, at: http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/257773.
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In reading Edward Said, particularly works such as Out of Place and Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, one is left wondering about the peculiar position that Said, the “exile,” holds in relation to writing. In this essay, I examine this relation by following and exploring the figure of exile that permeates Said’s many writings.
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Abstract Drawing on ethnographic field research, this analysis compares the evolution of refugee camps as incubators of political organization and repositories of collective memory for Palestinian refugees in Jordan and Sahrawi refugees of the Western Sahara. While recognizing the significant differences between the historical and geopolitical contexts of the two groups and their national movements
Hamzah, Dyala (2008). « Lutte nationale ou fondation étatique ? Les intellectuels palestiniens, d’Oslo I à Intifada II », Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 123 | 2008, 161-177.