The American fashion designer Tory Burch has been accused of cultural appropriation for featuring dresses that closely resemble Palestinian traditional embroidered designs, The New Arab reported. Harvey Nichols described the dresses – priced upwards of […]
Miss Universe Philippines has been slammed for passing off Palestinian culture as Israeli during her visit to the Jewish state for the Miss Universe competition, The New Arab reported. Beatrice Luigi Gomez posted pictures to […]
By Mahmoud Nasser I was sitting on my couch when my phone rang. It was my uncle, Hassan. He told me that there was a bedouin wedding just outside Gaza City and asked if I […]
By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza Palestinian kindergarteners of the ‘Modern Excellence Kindergarten’ in Gaza city took part in the celebrations of Palestine’s Declaration of Independence Day, on Monday, November 15. The main attraction, aside from […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Despite all the challenges Palestinians in besieged Gaza face on a daily basis, the olive harvesting season still represents a moment of joy and communal celebration. Our correspondent from Gaza […]
By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza The occasion of Prophet Mohammed’s birthday – Eid al-Mawlid al-Nabawi – is celebrated across the Muslim world every year with various communal activities, charity work and, often songs and Nashid. […]
By Romana Rubeo Renowned Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri canceled his participation in Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival on Tuesday, due to Egyptian authorities’ decision to detain and deport a young Palestinian filmmaker […]
An independent committee from the Palestine cinema sector, under the supervision of the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, submitted the film, “The Stranger”, for a nomination at the 94th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, […]
By Ramzy Baroud The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had “chosen not to sell … translation rights […]
By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza The Zaffa is a main fixture in traditional Palestinian Arab weddings. The Zaffa is for dancers, musicians, family and friends to welcome the bride and groom into the reception hall. Palestine Chronicle […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff US-based streaming service Netflix launched a new Palestinian film collection on Thursday, Reuters reported. The collection, titled ‘Palestinian Stories’, consists in 32 films that are “either helmed by Palestinian filmmakers […]
By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza Palestinian artist Bilal Khaled is not only famous in Gaza for his outstanding Arabic calligraphy skills but worldwide as well. News of his accomplishments has been featured in The New […]
Actors starring in the new film “Let There Be Morning” have withdrawn their participation from the Cannes Film Festival, in protest of the film being labeled as an Israeli production. The film, which is written […]
Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton has drawn criticism over its release of a men’s scarf based on the keffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress strongly associated with the Palestinian struggle. The French fashion house describes the […]
By Mahmoud Ajjour – Gaza Last Tuesday, an Israeli air raid turned Samir Mansour’s library into a heap of rubble after serving for many years as a primary intellectual source for Palestinian authors, researchers, and […]
In an article published by Esquires Middle East on May 19, William Mullally provided a list of 10 top books to read on Palestine. They include In Search of Fatima, by Ghada Karmi, A Child […]
British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi has won this year’s Bafta for best short film. Nabulsi’s film ‘The Present’ is set in the occupied West Bank. Nabulsi accepted the award online during the 74th annual British Academy Film […]
By Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Mourid Barghouti is a renowned Palestinian poet who passed away on Sunday, February 14, at the age of 76, in the Jordanian capital Amman. Born in the Palestinian village of […]
Palestinian political activist and academic Abdul Sattar Qassem died of COVID-19 yesterday at the age of 73. Qassem was a Palestinian writer, thinker, political analyst, and academic. He was a professor of political science and […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Somewhere in northern Gaza City, a small impoverished community lives mostly in makeshift homes, some fashioned using rusty sheet metal. While poverty in the besieged Gaza Strip is rampant, the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Ismail Matar is known in southern Gaza as the ‘Painter of the Refugee Camp’. And there is a good reason for that. A refugee himself, Matar, 22, paints mostly on […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Palestine National Football Team achieved an historic victory against the Kuwait National Football Team on Monday, January 18, for the first time in 19 years. Palestine hopes that its […]
In the latest episode of ‘Palestine Beyond Conflict’, a series of interviews conducted by Identity International, Professor Ilan Pappé discusses the evolution of Palestinian identity throughout the last century with Misbah Khan. Pappe is a […]
By Benay Blend A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. Here she argues that a woman requires a room of her own and money if […]
Ramzy Baroud discusses the complexities of Palestinian identity in today’s world with Misbah Khan from Identity International, in Episode 1 of “Palestinian: Beyond Conflict”. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, author and internationally syndicated columnist, […]
By Ramzy Baroud Why does Israel hate Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf? On October 16, Avi Dichter, Israeli Member of Parliament from the right-wing Likud Party, announced that Assaf’s special permit to enter the occupied […]
Israeli daily Maariv on Thursday quoted Avi Dichter, a member of the Israeli Knesset and former Minister of Internal Security, as saying that the Israeli authorities have decided to prevent Palestinian singer and Arab Idol […]
By Muin Bseiso (Translated by May Jayyusi and Naomi Shihab Nye) Brother! If they should sharpen the sword on my neck, I would not kneel, even if their whips lashed my bloodied mouth If dawn […]
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel. […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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