غزة الحدث و الارتدادات
Past seminar — Gaza: The Event and Its Repercussions (2 Feb 2026) Alif Sabbagh, Oraib Rantawi and Dr. Khaled Hroub, moderated from Washington by Sari Dajani. Watch the full recording. ضمن سلسلة «رؤى عربية»، قدّم ثلاثة من المفكّرين والكتّاب العرب المميّزين — الأستاذ أليف صبّاغ، والأستاذ عريب الرنتاوي، والدكتور خالد الحروب — حواراً حول «غزة: […] Read more
The Crystal Ball 2025
From the archive — The Crystal Ball 2025 By Imad F. Abdullah (December 2025). A year-end reflection on power, war, Syria, Gaza and the quarter-century just ending — written as 2025 turned into 2026. Read more
The Voice of Hind Rajab
The Voice of Hind Rajab “The Voice of Hind Rajab” had a full run at the AFI Theatre starting January 9th. The Voice of Hind Rajab (Arabic: صوت هند رجب, romanized: Ṣawt Hind Rajab) is a 2025 docudrama film[5] written and directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. It follows the Red Crescent response to the killing […] Read more
Magic Realism with Footnotes: novelist Nasrallah creates a genre of his own
Essay — Magic Realism with Footnotes Raymond Deane on Ibrahim Nasrallah's Time of White Horses: a genre of its own — historical magic realism, with footnotes. (First published here 7 December 2025.) Read more
The 100 Greatest Arab Films Of All Time
The 100 Greatest Arab Films of All Time — the countdown is complete The Arab Film and Media Institute unveiled the list in a weekly countdown from 18 November to 18 December 2025, beginning with films 100–81 and culminating with the top 10 on 18 December. See the full list at Cinemayaat.com. Read more
End of year gathering at Dar Alhurriya this Saturday
Palestine House of Freedom 650 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Suite 50, Washington DC 20003 Read more
نادي الكتاب — اختيار كانون الأول/ديسمبر 2025
زمن الخيول البيضاء لإبراهيم نصر الله — رواية من ملحمة الملهاة الفلسطينية، صدرت عام 2007 ووصلت إلى القائمة القصيرة للجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية عام 2009. وصفَتها سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي بأنها «الإلياذة الفلسطينية». Book Club — December 2025 pick (archive): Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah. Read more
WaPo: Christians are fleeing the Middle East
Christians are fleeing the Middle East From the Washington Post, via Pew Research: Christians were 2.9% of the Middle East and North Africa's population in 2020, down from 3.3% in 2010 — with Syria's Christian population estimated at about 400,000, down from 1.5 million in 2011. (Shared 30 November 2025; figures as reported then.) Read more
الدكتور مؤنس ابوعصب ينشر كتابه الجديد عن السرطان
Dr. Mo'nis Abu Asab — Unraveling Cancer (published 30 May 2025) A new evolutionary conceptual framework for understanding cancer — its origins, progression and heterogeneity. Available on Amazon. (Shared 30 November 2025.) Read more
Joseph Massad: A new front in the American Colonisation of Palestine
The adoption of US President Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza by the United Nations Security Council has been widely described as christening the US, if not Trump personally, as the new colonial master of the land and its people. Trump first announced his designs for Gaza last February, when he proposed a full […] Read more