The Middle East and North Africa – the end of the Cold War legacy?

Saturday, 14 May, 2011 - 16:06

Overview
US foreign policy in the Middle East dates from its post-WWII Cold War with the USSR over spheres of influence. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Israel was central to this policy.

Tribute to Juliano Mer Khamis: Short film

Thursday, 12 May, 2011 - 18:05

On 20 April 2011, a tribute event was held in London in memory of director, actor and filmmaker Juliano Mer Khamis.

Trouble in the South Hebron hills

Tuesday, 7 December, 2010 - 16:59

We in the Arab-Jewish Partnership Ta’ayush (http://www.taayush.org) knew that Israeli army works with the security guards of the settlements, so weren’t too surprised to lear

Ending the 'War of Narratives'

Monday, 26 July, 2010 - 08:54

In his new book The Arabs and the Holocaust Gilbert Achcar, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, analyzes the different and changing relationships within the Arab world to the

Being Jewish and Doing Justice

Saturday, 26 June, 2010 - 14:30

‘To accept the Torah is to accept the norms of a universal justice’
(Emmanuel Levinas, Nine Talmudic Readings)

Aftershock: Israel's ordinary soldiers

Wednesday, 12 May, 2010 - 12:58

Who, or what, makes the news?

Budrus – paradoxical hope in a threatened Palestinian village

Thursday, 25 March, 2010 - 16:50

Budrus the village is in the Ramallah district of the occupied West Bank, very near the pre-1967 Israeli border.

Small but hopeful: Israeli-Palestinian projects in the southern Hebron hills

Sunday, 21 March, 2010 - 23:39

The separation barrier and the proximity of settlements to Palestinian villages cause serious disruptions to the daily lives of Palestinians.

Background paper: Sheikh Jarrah - Jewish settlement and Palestinian dispossession

Thursday, 11 March, 2010 - 14:03

Sheikh Jarrah is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, part of the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. It was illegally annexed to Israel after the end of the war.

A Gaza night in Norway

Friday, 8 January, 2010 - 14:45

Ayda Abdalbari is a Palestinian woman who was born and lived most of her life in Gaza.

When the Gaza offensive began in December 2008, she was working as a field researcher for Israeli human rights organization ‘Gisha,’ and nursing her brother, Ashraf, who was dying of a brain tumor.

Ashraf died during the offensive, and shortly after the ceasefire, the Norwegian government agreed to give asylum to his widow and three children, as well as Ayda, at their request.

On January 6th, Ayda wrote the following letter to her friends, from her new home in Norway.

Dear friends,