Public Art Review, Issue 41, Fall-Winter 2009 On a side street deep in the center of Tel Aviv—a city known to Israelis as the bubble—a young Muslim girl confronts passersby. Her face is framed by a hijab. Her hands clutch a book bearing a stylized Islamic star and crescent to her chest. And she stares. …
Mondoweiss, January 3, 2010 This is the sixth installation in a seven-part series. See Mondoweiss for details. When Tania Hary was 15, she found her father’s birth certificate. It read Palestine. “It was a shock,” Hary, now 29, recalls. “I couldn’t assess the full ramifications.” Though Israeli-born Hary was raised in Los Angeles, she knew …
Mondoweiss, January 2, 2010 This is the fifth installation in a seven-part series. See Mondoweiss for details. Judith, a character in Dvir Tzur’s novel Inverted Letters, lives alone on a cliff high above the sea. Judith was a settler, but her children live in the Diaspora. Gazing towards unseen lands beyond the water, Judith is …
Mondoweiss, January 1, 2010 This is the fourth installation in a seven-part series. See Mondoweiss for details. As an attorney for a NGO that advocates for workers’ rights, Hanny Ben Israel, 29, sees the many faces of Israel’s problems on a daily basis. Though some of the complainants she sees are Israeli and Palestinian, most …
The National, January 2, 2010 “The moment I found these, my life changed,” says Sharif Sharif-Safadi, archaeologist and expert on the cultural heritage of Nazareth. It was 1986. Dr. Sharif-Safadi had just returned from Italy. He’d studied archaeology in Perugia and worked on the conservation of historic items in Rome. And then, one afternoon in …