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As much of the world focuses on China's change of political leadership this week, across the globe the emerging superpower quietly expand into other areas. On Wednesday, deep within...

Beyond Abbas's pictures of Iranian revolutionaries burning a portrait of the Shah in 1978, and past the stereotypical images of veiled women with mobile phones, a collection of photographs...

Walls and checkpoints in occupied Palestine mean that artists from Gaza and the West Bank, though from the same country, may never actually meet each other; art, therefore, can...

As the bloody uprising in Syria continues to rage, Ayyam Gallery in Damascus does more than just show artwork; it has become a safe haven for artists. The gallery...

A group of young boys gather around a TV set listening to the presenter as she delivers news of bombings in the Al Sadr neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Images...

As South Africa's apartheid system neared its end, the regime asked their long-term ally Israel for some advice. How could they boost their image in the West and sell...

After its nomination for an Academy Award, the documentary film, "5 Broken Cameras" by Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat, has gained attention amongst Arabs, Muslims and pro-Palestine activists. It is...

On the back wall of a tiny room in West London, a telephone hangs patiently next to the door; to the left is a shelf on which a silver...

Zaki Kabob restaurant in the state of New York, the economic capital of the United States, is standing fast in the face of alienation and temptation and yet continues...

These days there are a number of documentaries and academic books that address the Israel Palestine conflict; many of them, like Occupation 101, reveal how Israeli policy in the...

Sympathy, apathy and the human urge to live are among the emotions experienced when watching the Academy Award-nominated Palestinian documentary Five Broken Cameras. The film adopts such unadorned realism...

It's hard to recreate the 1960s with only a quarter of the budget you intended to shoot on. But that's exactly what Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir did to film...

The Tedious Occupation of Bureaucracy Six years ago Palestinian director Nahed Awwad, her husband and their four-week-old daughter were on the way to Germany from their home in the...

The most disturbing part of Caryl Churchill's The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution is the relevance its main themes have today. Set in a psychiatric hospital at...

A brief article on Forbes emphasising Israel's significant increase in tourism has been linked to the forthcoming 65th anniversary of "the birth of the nation". For Palestinians, the commemoration...

One villager cuts open an apple and presents to the camera the fruit before him. Inside, in a neat circle, are five pips – one for each point of...

The cameraman passes a microphone through a gap in the separation wall and a hand from the other side finds just enough space to take it; for one mother...

Qalandia, "I hate the word," says the protagonist as he walks through the familiar metal grille that protects the crossing between the West Bank and Jerusalem in the occupied...

Nadar Khallaf lays out colourful cards in the centre of the circle and asks each of the 12 young men surrounding him to pick two of them. A member...

"It's kind of strange, but okay. You can't help but dance- in an awkward fashion- but it was well worth it," music lover Yahya Karali commented on a recent...

In 2011, it was handed out to keep protestors in Tahrir Square going as they demonstrated against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 30 year rule; since 1950 Abou Tarek's...

Considering the Palestinians have only had two presidents in over 20 years, it's no wonder they are taking it upon themselves to elect their own leader – or a...

Over the past few weeks, Jerusalem's deputy Mayor David Hadari has been busy writing letters. First he outlined a proposal to market 900 new housing units in an illegal...

Finding a riad-style warehouse teeming with beautiful Moroccan furniture isn't quite what you expect when stepping off the tube at Greenford in west London. But it is in a...

There is something unnerving about Fadi Al Jabour's doll. Painted using oils in the abstract realistic style, from a distance she is a cute with round cheeks and blond...

Dai Dream may be a British hip hop producer from Liverpool, but he has a huge fan base in the occupied territories. "I love Palestine and I love the...

"The world used to think that Gaza knows nothing about life except the mass killings and destruction that it witnesses, but I wanted to show the opposite ," Maysara...

In the winning image, a group of men carry the bodies of two young Palestinian children wrapped in funeral shrouds down an alley in Jabaliya refugee camp in the...

In the updated version of his book Covering Islam, originally published in 1981, renowned Palestinian writer and intellectual Edward Said voiced concern that "the mere use of the label...

Although Palestinians have lived under Israeli occupation and apartheid for over six decades, Western narratives usually paint them as hateful and violent, as if they were born with hatred...

In a House of Lords debate on the plight of Palestinian citizens of Israel ("Arab Israelis") called by the Lord Bishop of Exeter, peers from across the political spectrum...

The following piece of writing is based on the true story of Hadil Ghalia and many other Palestinians living under occupation. Friday, my beloved Friday. It was our day...