Institute for Palestine Studies
@palestinestudies.bsky.social
Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
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Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.
🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
August 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.
🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.
🔗https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657407
🔗https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657407
August 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.
🔗https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657407
🔗https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657407
@nadinebahour.bsky.social examines how Israel has used hunger as a central tool in its campaign against Gaza, blocking aid, targeting farms and food warehouses, and creating deadly aid sites. Starvation is a calculated weapon of war.
Read the policy paper: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Read the policy paper: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
August 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
@nadinebahour.bsky.social examines how Israel has used hunger as a central tool in its campaign against Gaza, blocking aid, targeting farms and food warehouses, and creating deadly aid sites. Starvation is a calculated weapon of war.
Read the policy paper: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Read the policy paper: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
This week on Palestine Square: voices from Gaza that refuse to be silenced. From the grief and memory of a student writer, to Hebrew graffiti used as a weapon of control, to students preparing for exams in tents and ruins, these are stories of survival, dignity, and resistance🧵
July 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This week on Palestine Square: voices from Gaza that refuse to be silenced. From the grief and memory of a student writer, to Hebrew graffiti used as a weapon of control, to students preparing for exams in tents and ruins, these are stories of survival, dignity, and resistance🧵
1/ Ghada Majadli examines how Israel’s systematic targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system has led to mass injuries and amputations, turning disability into a deliberate weapon of war. This policy paper details the genocidal logic behind Gaza’s health crisis.🧵
May 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
1/ Ghada Majadli examines how Israel’s systematic targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system has led to mass injuries and amputations, turning disability into a deliberate weapon of war. This policy paper details the genocidal logic behind Gaza’s health crisis.🧵
📣We're hiring! The Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) is currently looking for a part-time Assistant Editor. This opportunity is remote! Deadline is May 15, 2025.
Details: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Details: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
April 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
📣We're hiring! The Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) is currently looking for a part-time Assistant Editor. This opportunity is remote! Deadline is May 15, 2025.
Details: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Details: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
"Israel's colonial system is intent on keeping Moayed and Adam apart — yet they use their photography to find cracks in the wall. Their art centers the hopes, stories, and dreams of Palestinians across geographies, insisting on unity in the face of division." writes @najisafadi.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Israel's colonial system is intent on keeping Moayed and Adam apart — yet they use their photography to find cracks in the wall. Their art centers the hopes, stories, and dreams of Palestinians across geographies, insisting on unity in the face of division." writes @najisafadi.bsky.social
"Adam's photography works against the settler-colonial gaze, which perceives Palestinians as a threat to be subordinated, incarcerated, and eliminated. Adam's gaze, however, turns away from Palestinian death, and toward Palestinian life." writes @najisafadi.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Adam's photography works against the settler-colonial gaze, which perceives Palestinians as a threat to be subordinated, incarcerated, and eliminated. Adam's gaze, however, turns away from Palestinian death, and toward Palestinian life." writes @najisafadi.bsky.social
Adam explains that photographs, due to their unique visual form, “have an innate capacity for stickiness — consolidating into lasting cognitive formations and leaving imprints of reality on our collective consciousness.”
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Adam explains that photographs, due to their unique visual form, “have an innate capacity for stickiness — consolidating into lasting cognitive formations and leaving imprints of reality on our collective consciousness.”
Adam discovered Moayed's work on Instagram during the genocide, and was moved by it. He reflects, “From the [photographs] I've seen, Moayed is channeling the impossible realities of life under genocide into pictorial form.”
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Adam discovered Moayed's work on Instagram during the genocide, and was moved by it. He reflects, “From the [photographs] I've seen, Moayed is channeling the impossible realities of life under genocide into pictorial form.”
@najisafadi.bsky.social writes, "Moayed's work [...] does not show us the explicit violence, the bombs, the blood, or the bodies — instead, he offers us poetic glimpses into the liminality, the inexplicable in-betweenness of an existence that is a blur between life and death."
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@najisafadi.bsky.social writes, "Moayed's work [...] does not show us the explicit violence, the bombs, the blood, or the bodies — instead, he offers us poetic glimpses into the liminality, the inexplicable in-betweenness of an existence that is a blur between life and death."
Moayed continues, “Through my images, I try to answer questions like: What were people doing before they died? What were their hopes, stories, and dreams? Everyone who dies was doing only one thing: waiting. Waiting for any miracle to stop what is happening.”
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Moayed continues, “Through my images, I try to answer questions like: What were people doing before they died? What were their hopes, stories, and dreams? Everyone who dies was doing only one thing: waiting. Waiting for any miracle to stop what is happening.”
“My photography is a personal projection of what I feel and experience as someone who is still alive under this genocide. It is the result of long gazes at the invisible scars and details that the media doesn't document," says Moayed.
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“My photography is a personal projection of what I feel and experience as someone who is still alive under this genocide. It is the result of long gazes at the invisible scars and details that the media doesn't document," says Moayed.
@najisafadi.bsky.social speaks with Palestinian photographers, Moayed Abu Ammouna in Gaza & Adam Rouhana in Jerusalem on how photography, and dialogue between artists, contributes to the struggle for Palestinian liberation. Read and view their photos ⬇️🧵
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@najisafadi.bsky.social speaks with Palestinian photographers, Moayed Abu Ammouna in Gaza & Adam Rouhana in Jerusalem on how photography, and dialogue between artists, contributes to the struggle for Palestinian liberation. Read and view their photos ⬇️🧵
“He displayed 20 images of destroyed houses in Gaza as real estate ads, similar to the way brokers advertise houses for rent or sale...details of the destroyed houses in Gaza: a description of the house, its location, its proximity to the sea, the # of rooms, and the # of people who lived in it.”
April 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“He displayed 20 images of destroyed houses in Gaza as real estate ads, similar to the way brokers advertise houses for rent or sale...details of the destroyed houses in Gaza: a description of the house, its location, its proximity to the sea, the # of rooms, and the # of people who lived in it.”
In this essay for the Journal of Palestine Studies, Rana Anani documents how Western art institutions, despite touting themes of decolonization and post-colonialism have distanced themselves from the Palestinian decolonial struggle and marginalized and excluded Palestinian artists.
April 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In this essay for the Journal of Palestine Studies, Rana Anani documents how Western art institutions, despite touting themes of decolonization and post-colonialism have distanced themselves from the Palestinian decolonial struggle and marginalized and excluded Palestinian artists.
“Last year, there was no Eid. Instead of wearing new clothes, the children wore shrouds. Instead of exchanging greetings, their names were added to the lists of martyrs. The same scenes unfold today,” writes Ghada Abu Muaileq from Gaza.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
March 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Last year, there was no Eid. Instead of wearing new clothes, the children wore shrouds. Instead of exchanging greetings, their names were added to the lists of martyrs. The same scenes unfold today,” writes Ghada Abu Muaileq from Gaza.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
📣Join us on Feb. 14 at 11am ET w/ @srseikaly.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social, @meznaqato.bsky.social & @jehadabusalim.bsky.social to discuss the suppression of pro-Palestine voices in academic spaces (@history4palestine.bsky.social)
🔗 WEBINAR REGISTRATION: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
🔗 WEBINAR REGISTRATION: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
February 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
📣Join us on Feb. 14 at 11am ET w/ @srseikaly.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social, @meznaqato.bsky.social & @jehadabusalim.bsky.social to discuss the suppression of pro-Palestine voices in academic spaces (@history4palestine.bsky.social)
🔗 WEBINAR REGISTRATION: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
🔗 WEBINAR REGISTRATION: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
In an interview with the Toronto Star, author Avik Jain Chatlani argued that the systemic practice of “artwashing the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people” continued unabated within the Giller foundation's structure, rendering the name change a hollow gesture.
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
In an interview with the Toronto Star, author Avik Jain Chatlani argued that the systemic practice of “artwashing the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people” continued unabated within the Giller foundation's structure, rendering the name change a hollow gesture.
Canadian authors, including Fawn Parker, Catherine Hernandez, Avik Jain Chatlani, Canisia Lubrin, Sheung-King, Farzana Doctor, Ben Berman Ghan, Michelle Winters, and dozens of others withdrew their books from consideration for the 2024 Giller Prize.
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Canadian authors, including Fawn Parker, Catherine Hernandez, Avik Jain Chatlani, Canisia Lubrin, Sheung-King, Farzana Doctor, Ben Berman Ghan, Michelle Winters, and dozens of others withdrew their books from consideration for the 2024 Giller Prize.
Across the country, simultaneously, hundreds of demonstrators attended five counter-programs organized under the No Arms in the Arts tour (@wawog.bsky.social). Staged as part of a coordinated effort to challenge the Giller Prize's corporate partnerships.
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Across the country, simultaneously, hundreds of demonstrators attended five counter-programs organized under the No Arms in the Arts tour (@wawog.bsky.social). Staged as part of a coordinated effort to challenge the Giller Prize's corporate partnerships.
“I want to do away with this false binary between writers and organizers. Culture alone, the work we do on the page, will not be enough,” poet and activist Jody Chan told the crowd at the Boycott Giller counter-gala on Nov. 18.
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
“I want to do away with this false binary between writers and organizers. Culture alone, the work we do on the page, will not be enough,” poet and activist Jody Chan told the crowd at the Boycott Giller counter-gala on Nov. 18.
Canada's advocates & authors #CanLitResponds mobilized to end the literary sector's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Many pulled books from consideration for the Giller Prize, demanding it sever ties with companies invested in Israel's murder of Palestinians. @laythco.bsky.social reports ⬇️
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Canada's advocates & authors #CanLitResponds mobilized to end the literary sector's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Many pulled books from consideration for the Giller Prize, demanding it sever ties with companies invested in Israel's murder of Palestinians. @laythco.bsky.social reports ⬇️
“The omission of sources erases the work of Elder dress historians and cultural keepers, who are primarily Palestinian women,” write Susan Muaddi Darraj and Wafa Ghnaim.
December 18, 2024 at 5:05 PM
“The omission of sources erases the work of Elder dress historians and cultural keepers, who are primarily Palestinian women,” write Susan Muaddi Darraj and Wafa Ghnaim.
“These patterns are best understood as ancient symbols that can be found not only in Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Palestinian tatreez but across all of Southwest Asia and North Africa on stone, mosaic, architecture, metal, and woodwork, since antiquity,” writes Wafa Ghnaim.
December 18, 2024 at 5:05 PM
“These patterns are best understood as ancient symbols that can be found not only in Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Palestinian tatreez but across all of Southwest Asia and North Africa on stone, mosaic, architecture, metal, and woodwork, since antiquity,” writes Wafa Ghnaim.