http://www.trcb.com/en-Us60Sat, 26 May 2012 11:05:30 ESTCopyright 2012 Electronic Intifada, TRCB.com All Right Reservedhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/epic-series-the-promise-dramatizes-palestine-past-and-present-50013.htmClaire Fox plays Erin, the granddaughter of a mandate-era British soldier, in The Promise. Nothing is guaranteed to arouse passions and stir consciences more than a great film dramatization that Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:09:42 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/epic-series-the-promise-dramatizes-palestine-past-and-present-50013.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/walking-the-wall-comedian-mark-thomas-interviewed-49844.htmMark Thomas walked all 732 kilometers of Israel's wall in the occupied West Bank. (Image courtesy of Mark Thomas) Last month, Mark Thomas, the English "activist-comedian," was in Dublin Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:36:04 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/walking-the-wall-comedian-mark-thomas-interviewed-49844.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-with-the-late-juliano-mer-khamis-we-are-freedom-49238.htmA portrait of Juliano Mer-Khamis hangs outside the Freedom Theatre where he was killed one day earlier. (Anne Actor-director Juliano Mer-Khamis was shot dead by a masked gunman yesterday outside Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:42:02 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-with-the-late-juliano-mer-khamis-we-are-freedom-49238.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/winning-entries-of-first-annual-israeli-apartheid-film-contest-48881.htmA year ago, the Ramallah-based Stop the Wall campaign and itisapartheid.org began to collaborate on the first International Israeli Apartheid Short Film Contest. This contest encouraged the local Palestinian and larger international community to submit Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:56:18 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/winning-entries-of-first-annual-israeli-apartheid-film-contest-48881.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-waiting-for-redemption-in-the-hour-of-sunlight-48739.htmThe Hour of Sunlight by Sami Al Jundi, former supervisor of the Seeds of Peace Center in Jerusalem, comes festooned with accolades from the great and good. We are told that it demonstrates "the thinking and leadership qualities that are necessary to Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:27:23 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-waiting-for-redemption-in-the-hour-of-sunlight-48739.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-mapping-the-disappearance-of-a-nation-48567.htmMalkit Shoshan (Dirk Jan Visser) Malkit Shoshan's The Atlas of the Conflict -- Israel-Palestine won the annual book design competition in the "Best Books from all over the World" category at the Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:05:03 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-mapping-the-disappearance-of-a-nation-48567.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-sharif-kanaana-on-palestinian-folklore-and-identity-48385.htmSharif Kanaana Born in the northern Palestinian village of Arrabeh in the Galilee and currently living in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Sharif Kanaana has been a professor at Birzeit Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:10:08 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-sharif-kanaana-on-palestinian-folklore-and-identity-48385.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-rula-jebreal-on-the-struggle-to-make-miral-a-film-48049.htmRula Jebreal Miral, Julian Schnabel's feature film set in Palestine and based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by author and journalist Rula Jebreal, will open in cinemas in ten Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:10:16 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-rula-jebreal-on-the-struggle-to-make-miral-a-film-48049.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/palestinian-fashion-designers-uncompromising-debut-45617.htmOne of OmarJoseph's 22 unique garments on exhibition at The Mosaic Rooms. (Tarek Moukaddem) With style gurus and editors reveling in another pageant of new creations flaunted at London Fashion Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:41:54 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/palestinian-fashion-designers-uncompromising-debut-45617.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/film-review-hampshires-divestment-victory-documented-44911.htmTo Know Is Not Enough from Will Delphia on Vimeo. One year after Hampshire College in Massachusetts became the first university to divest from the Israeli occupation, student Will Delphia was hard at work completing a short documentary film exploring Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:49:42 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/film-review-hampshires-divestment-victory-documented-44911.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-rich-definition-of-what-it-means-to-be-palestinian-43473.htm"This is what it means to be Palestinian, to care, because if you stop caring, then you let go. We cannot let go" (p. 110) explains Jerusalemite Samia Nasser Khoury in Dina Matar's landmark new book, What it Means to be Palestinian. Matar is a lecturer Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:18:59 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-rich-definition-of-what-it-means-to-be-palestinian-43473.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-from-mourning-to-mobilization-42770.htmRonit Lentin is an Israeli-born academic and novelist now based in Ireland, where she teaches sociology at Trinity College, Dublin. She describes her latest book, Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba, as "a reflection Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:24:00 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-from-mourning-to-mobilization-42770.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-arafats-ghost-and-the-palestinian-national-movement-41659.htmNovember 2010 marked the sixth anniversary of the death of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. For the last two years of his life, the once peripatetic leader who was a constant fixture on the world stage for almost four decades, was reduced Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:09:13 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-arafats-ghost-and-the-palestinian-national-movement-41659.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/the-holocaust-palestine-and-the-arab-world-gilbert-achcar-41311.htmGilbert Achcar (Arwa Aburawa) In his latest book The Arabs and the Holocaust, Gilbert Achcar, a professor of Development Studies at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:48 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/the-holocaust-palestine-and-the-arab-world-gilbert-achcar-41311.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-europes-alliance-with-israel-40329.htmFrom the eastern side of the Atlantic, it's easy to pin all the world's ills on the United States. Other Western countries may have perpetrated their share of imperialistic crimes but since World War II, Washington's global might has meant that other Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:53:38 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-europes-alliance-with-israel-40329.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-correcting-mistaken-notions-on-arabs-in-america-40054.htmMany Americans think anti-Arab sentiment in the United States began after 11 September 2001. Others think Arabs are recent immigrants to America. Some think the Arab community has kept to itself, not participating in struggles like the civil rights and Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:03:26 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-correcting-mistaken-notions-on-arabs-in-america-40054.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/how-europe-aids-the-occupation-david-cronin-interviewed-39461.htmDavid Cronin In his new book Europe's Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation, journalist David Cronin traces the intricacies of the relationship between the State of Israel and institutions Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:14:22 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/how-europe-aids-the-occupation-david-cronin-interviewed-39461.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/we-will-continue-to-sing-dams-suhell-nafar-interviewed-39303.htmDAM's Suhell Nafar. (Matthew Cassel) DAM is a Palestinian hip hop trio from Lod, a mixed Palestinian and Jewish town about 20 kilometers from Jerusalem. Comprised of Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafar Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:38:56 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/we-will-continue-to-sing-dams-suhell-nafar-interviewed-39303.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-humanity-and-warmth-in-letters-from-palestine-39122.htmWestern publishers have too often neglected the perspective of Palestinians and other Arabs when it comes to books on Israel and the Palestinians. Letters from Palestine, a new collection of Palestinian writing edited by Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:23:58 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-humanity-and-warmth-in-letters-from-palestine-39122.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-spy-trade-details-history-of-israel-lobby-in-the-us-38961.htmGrant F. Smith, author of the new book Spy Trade, is staggeringly knowledgeable about the Israel lobby. Spy Trade is the latest in a series of books on the lobby published by his organization, the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy. In this Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:46:58 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-spy-trade-details-history-of-israel-lobby-in-the-us-38961.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/palestinian-american-hip-hop-artist-asks-you-to-consider-38809.htmGon (Ben Speckmann) Chicago-based Palestinian American rapper Gon isn't apologizing. In his recently released hip-hop album Consider Violence, Gon aggressively confronts political and personal Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:52:47 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/palestinian-american-hip-hop-artist-asks-you-to-consider-38809.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-excavating-palestines-hidden-histories-38138.htmThe layers of colonization in Palestine run as deep as the layers of the country's mythologized and distorted history. This emanates from many sources and continues to be perpetuated by academics whose methodologies maintain this phenomenon. This is one Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:12:06 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/book-review-excavating-palestines-hidden-histories-38138.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/review-paintings-scream-to-break-walls-of-silence-37988.htmArtist Jane Frere at her exhibition In the Shadow of the Wall.(Malcolm Crowthers) Scottish artist Jane Frere's exhibition In the Shadow of the Wall reminds us that the plight of the Palestinian Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:00:41 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/review-paintings-scream-to-break-walls-of-silence-37988.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/everyday-heroes-filmmaker-dahna-abourahme-interviewed-37779.htmA scene from The Kingdom of Women Born in Amman, Dahna Abourahme is a Palestinian filmmaker based in Beirut. A graduate of the New School for Social Research, she has worked on a number of films. Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:00:24 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/everyday-heroes-filmmaker-dahna-abourahme-interviewed-37779.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/film-review-palestine-as-hollywood-fantasy-in-miral-37629.htmAny major film addressing the Israel-Palestine conflict can expect to court a measure of controversy, but American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's intervention is unlikely to cause much consternation among a mainstream cinema audience. Speaking Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:33:18 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/film-review-palestine-as-hollywood-fantasy-in-miral-37629.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culture