topic: America

When Even the Living Are Lost: A Meditation on My Time at Arlington Cemetery
March 23, 2015
There are fields beyond. The world there obeys / The living Word; names, numbers do for this. / The grave’s cross, the grave’s grass, the...
Conversations
Image Decomposed: Alfredo Jaar’s May 1, 2011
February 25, 2015
This interview with Chilean-born, New York-based artist Alfredo Jaar was conducted over several weeks in 2011-2012. For Jaar, making the...
Opinion
Torture and Moral Vision
February 22, 2015
Torture is a violation of the law, both domestic and international. It also happens to be a moral outrage. Leaving aside the legal...
blog
Palestinian Audacity: The PA's bid to join the International Criminal Court
January 13, 2015
As 2014 came to a close, the Palestinian Authority made two controversial moves in the international political arena that have sparked many...
blog
#TortureReport and the Media Circus
December 12, 2014
The release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's executive summary on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation program has been met with...
blog
Disciplinary Power in Ferguson and Palestine
August 22, 2014
Recent days have seen an upsurge of signs of solidarity between African-American and Palestinian struggles. On August 17, an open letter...
retrospectives
A Palestinian Cultural Mural
September 26, 2013
When students at the San Francisco State University voted unanimously to erect a mural representing Palestinian culture through the complex...
retrospectives
Edward Said, Out of Place
September 26, 2013
Post by The Palestinian Museum .
retrospectives
The Myth of the Clash of Civilzations
September 26, 2013