In This Issue: Iran in Focus—Resistance, Sovereignty and the Battle for West Asia

By Thinking Palestine Editors ‘Iran in Focus’ emerges from an urgent necessity: to confront the “war of words” and strategic framing that have long defined the West’s engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. As the Middle East enters a period of unprecedented military escalation, the latest issue of Thinking Palestine, ‘Iran in Focus’, examines […]

Resistance in Palestinian Art: The Role and Significance of Culture in Our Struggle

By Nadia Naser-Najjab Art and culture have long enabled us to confront dispossession, assert identity, and resist erasure by colonization and now genocide. Cultural resistance emerged amidst pervasive repression, becoming essential to our attempts to preserve and assert our narrative. Literature/poetry, the visual arts, music, film and theater have contributed accessible cultural practices with the […]

The Sound of Resistance: How Music Challenges Israeli Occupation

By Mehmet Rakipoğlu The concept of sumud (steadfastness), the philosophical backbone of Palestinian identity, manifests in the songs as an active willingness to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of justice. Throughout the course of its occupation and indeed very existence, Israel has always harshly suppressed any form of (violent or non-violent) Palestinian resistance, with the aim […]

The Privilege of Detachment: Reflections from Occupied Palestine

By Ari Jafari My detachment is possible only because of our collective attachment, their stubborn refusal to accept the erasure that colonial logic demands. Returning to Palestine Returning to Bethlehem, Palestine, from abroad for the first time in two and a half years, I find much has changed. My time away has been the most […]