Wieland Hoban / 12 Sep 2022
A Palestinian Education
Farkha Festival Diary
Following a welcome ceremony on the evening of our arrival, the 27th annual Farkah Festival began.(...)
Israel
Wieland Hoban / 02 Sep 2022
Volunteering is Life
The 27th Farkha Festival
From 31 July to 7 August, the 27th annual Farkha Festival took place in the village of Farkha, in the occupied West Bank.(...)
John Foster / 29 Jul 2022
The Antisemitism Party
Labour and the Forde Report
The Forde Report represents a new stage of the malaise afflicting the Labour Party.(...)
Joel Schalit / 27 Jul 2022
Flying the Flag
Palestinian Easy Rider. Karl-Marx-Straße, Neukölln. [Joel Schalit]
Heather Allansdottir / 25 Jul 2022
Odesa Mama
Utopia by the Sea
The Russians have struck Odesa again, this time mere hours after reaching a deal with the Ukrainians. Though spared the worst of the war, an attack on Odesa is an attack on the best of Ukrainian and Russophone culture alike.(...)
John Foster / 22 Jul 2022
Virtual Colonialism
Geographies of Digital Exclusion, by Mark Graham and Martin Dittus
In all but the most prosaic discussions of cartography today, it’s obligatory to mention “On Exactitude in Science.”(...)
Joel Schalit / 14 Jul 2022
Jewish Berlin
The occupation is a virus. Nakba Day, Neukölln. [Joel Schalit]
Charlie Bertsch / 13 Jul 2022
Imagining a Different Future
Reconsidering Susan Sontag, Part II
Even as Susan Sontag’s celebrity has dimmed, the time she spent in battered Sarajevo in the 1990s, directing Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot remains a touchstone in discussions of intellectual engagement.(...)
Joel Schalit / 17 Jun 2022
Improving German Culture
Palestinian bakery opening. Karl-Marx-Straße, Neukölln. [Joel Schalit]
The Battleground / 13 Jun 2022
End of An Era
The Battleground’s Summer Books List
“No more blood.” The graffiti has been there for as long as I can remember.(...)