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Items by William Parry
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Rashid Khalidi on the past and future of Palestine
The terms “century” and “one hundred years”, often interchangeable, shared a strange coincidence on 28 January, when the eminent Palestinian-American academic Professor Rashid Khalidi published his latest book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. As it was hitting the bookshelves, US...
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Gaza is the ‘quintessential’ eponymous movie
“There are people living with so much misery , they no longer even realise the extent of their suffering.” So says Ahmed, a 40-something taxi driver describing what he witnesses every day on the streets of Gaza, as the camera films people in an impoverished market. To the...
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Work with Le Trio Joubran is about love, a topic Trump doesn’t understand, says Roger Waters
Many will wonder why it has taken Roger Waters, co-founder of the legendary band Pink Floyd, over a decade since he first became one of the staunchest advocates for Palestinian rights to collaborate with Palestinian musicians. This week, Le Trio Joubran, three brothers from Nazareth who are all oud...