Unintented, unprofessional Ethnographic Study in Haifa city

It is not professional because I am not an anthropologist- I only took two anthropology coursees during my English Literature degree, and it’s unintended because I was not planning for it- I was staying in Haifa after a long period of being away, and I ran into many people, with whom the conversation just naturally…

10 Podcasts that I have been listening to

they say that the visual era is receding, and the audio era is predominating. Today, we’re trying to squeeze out the most of the day, so we seek the audio that allows us to multi-task. For example, we listen to audiobooks on our long drives, or to a podcast while running or doing the dishes.…

The War writes its Poems: Review of Asmaa Azaiza’s book of poetry Don’t Believe Me If I Talk To You Of War

Asmaa Azaiza’s newest collection of poetry is bold, dark and triumphant. The young Palestinian woman poet’s third collection of poetry Don’t Believe Me If I Talk To You Of War was published by Almutwassit in Milano earlier in 2019. It has been translated to Dutch, Swedish and English. Azaiza’s book is an attempt to make…

Can Poetry survive this neoliberal era?

It is always about how much you “produce”. You are worthy of what you produce; whether it’s your work, your assets, your “social capital” which is another word for how many followers you have on social media, and your production of who you are. I’m not an expert in Neoliberalism, and I leave greater experts…

Palestinian-Castillan artistic fusion

Last week, Terez Sulieman’s official Facebook page posted a short, low-quality video with a high-quality content. The video features the Palestinian artist Terez Sulieman and the artist Sofia Adriana Portugal, performing an Arabic-Spanish fusion folk song on a boat cruising the Nile river in Egypt. The two singers compete with each other: each singing a…

Where to submit your next writing piece?

Have you written many poems and short stories and you can’t find where to publish them? Have you translated interesting stories, why not share it with others? Here’s some platforms and journals that are looking for you: Indiana Review is accepting submission until the 31st of March. They accept poems, short stories, translations and visual…

“It Must Be Heaven” is a brave man quest for home

After watching It Must Be Heaven by Elia Sulieman, one can say many things about the movie, its message and the reason why the scenes are organized that way. We can agree and disagree in our opinions and answers, but one thing every person who watched this film will probably agree upon: it makes you…

How does art reclaim public space in Haifa?

    In his Poetics of Space, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard writes that “we must describe what we imagine before what we know” (25). In a similar way, imagining public space through art and literature is one way of changing, reclaiming and owning the reality of that space. Since the “spatial turn” in the…

On writing in English

How it all began Sitting in a local café in the old market of Nazareth, I poured down my rambling thoughts in an attempt to organize them into a structure, to understand them and to reflect upon them. As a Palestinian living in Israel, I am confronted with many contradictions in my daily life. Just…

Nia’mat A’lawi and Rainer Maria Rilke -the love story you have not heard of, yet.

This article has been translated by myself from Shababek article by Mohammed Ahmed (the following link http://shbabbek.com/show/138943?fbclid=IwAR0MSy_FgsOoNz3_dURo6gLbX-N4NA2dMY6yuHvaYuu_HQlp2Jb9w9LQEZ0 )   Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the most well-known poets in the first half of 20th century Germany. Due to his significant contribution, scholars and critics have names him “the prince of Germany’s poets”, and…