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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Jun 24

An important message and appeal from Rashid Khalidi, IPS-USA President and Board Chairman. For over 60 years, IPS has been the leading institution for independent Palestinian research and publishing. Our essential work needs your support.

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Help Sustain the Institute for Palestine Studies—A Vital Pillar of Palestinian Knowledge Production

An Urgent Appeal from Rashid Khalidi Dear friends, Since October 2023, the dozens of scholars, editors, and researchers of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) in Beirut , Ramallah , and Was...

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 7d

Diaspora scatters stories, but memory refuses erasure. In “Portfolio of Stolen Memories,” Rand Abdalqader weaves poems, heirlooms, invoices, and oral histories into an anticolonial archive of her Palestinian family’s life before and after the Nakba.

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Portfolio of Stolen Memories

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 13d

Happening today!
Join us for a timely conversation with Dr. Tareq Emtairah of @TaawonOrg on the crisis facing Gaza’s orphans and how civil society is responding.
Moderated by @jehadabusalim.bsky.social
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Building Hope: The Urgent Mission to Support Gaza’s Orphans – A Conversation with Dr. Tareq Emtairah

*JOIN US ON ZOOM ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AT 12 PM EDT/7 PM PALESTINE* Join us for an important conversation with Dr. Tareq Emtairah, the Director General of Taawon, one of the most significant Pales...

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 26d

A garden in Gaza: once rubble, now a lifeline. In this essay, Mariam Mushtaha shows how tending mint and basil became a way to resist hunger and reclaim dignity under genocide.

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Our Garden's Plants Saved Us from Hunger

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 26d

What does it mean to walk through Elias Khoury’s novels? In Beirut, an art installation recreates his worlds of memory, exile, and love, one year after his passing.

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Shadows, Light and Dreams: Elias Khoury Visits Beirut Once Again

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 26d

“My grandmother survived the Nakba. Will I survive this?”

In her latest piece, Areej Almashharawi writes of loss, displacement, and resilience, tying her grandmother’s story in 1948 to her own forced evacuations today in Gaza.

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My Grandmother Survived the Nakba, Will I Survive This?

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Sep 5

Western media reframes Gaza’s genocide as Netanyahu’s failure, turning systemic settler-colonial violence into the story of one man. Jwan Zreiq writes that narrative itself has become a battlefield, where memory, mourning, and resistance are at stake.
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Rewriting Gaza: Narrative as Control

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 29

From olive groves seized behind the wall to murals in Bethlehem and youth football in Aida refugee camp, Palestinians resist erasure through land, art, and community. Dalal Radwan writes on life, creativity, and defiance under occupation.

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To Resist is to Exist: Living and Creating Under Israeli Occupation

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 29

In this interview, Asem Alnabih, spokesperson for Gaza Municipality, describes the devastation of Gaza City and the collapse of civic life, while insisting that any reconstruction must be led by Gazans themselves.

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Gaza’s Unbroken Spirit: Asem Alnabih on Destruction and the Dream of Reconstruction

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 15

In Gaza, Areej Almashharawi teaches kids English words like “tent” and “warplane” while starving herself. Her essay Gaza’s Last Call is a plea for justice, not pity.

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Gaza’s Last Call

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 15

Quadcopters bomb grazing donkeys. Soldiers shoot them for sport. Others are stolen and sent abroad. Israel calls this “rescue.” In Gaza, it’s the destruction of the last threads of mobility. Report by Mohammad al-Naami.

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Israel Kills and Seizes Gaza’s Donkeys Under the Pretext of "Liberating Them from Slavery"

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 13

Two years of genocide have stolen Gaza’s time. For Ghada Abu Muaileq, youth was spent between rumors of peace and the reality of famine, bombings, and aid lines that end in blood.
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Suspended Between Hope and Airstrikes

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 8

Ziad Rahbani’s genius was never apolitical. From “Wahdon” to “Tal el Zaatar,” his music, plays, and satire wove art into the fabric of resistance. As Maysaa Ajjan writes, his legacy proves that for Rahbani, art was always a political act.

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You Can’t Separate the Artist from His Politics: Ziad Rahbani’s Politics of Resistance

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 8

Israel has turned Gaza’s aid lines into death traps. Families come with hope for flour or beans. They leave blinded, paralyzed, or dead. Since May, Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 people while they waited for food. Report by Sumaya Mohammed.

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They Came for Food, They Found Bullets

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yipeng ge @yipengge.bsky.social · Aug 7

It was a real honour and privilege to engage in dialogue with @laythco.bsky.social for @palestinestudies.bsky.social about healthcare in Palestine.

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

In conversation with @laythco.bsky.social, Dr. @yipengge.bsky.social exposes Israel’s “choreography of destruction,” a campaign that besieges and empties Gaza’s hospitals, turns them to rubble, and targets the doctors who keep them alive.

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Choreography of Destruction: Inside the War on Healthcare in Gaza

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Children are not starving because food is scarce. They are starving because the borders are closed. Because aid is blocked. Because food convoys are targeted...

Gaza is not starving. Gaza is being starved. And the world is watching."

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Starvation as a Weapon: Gaza’s Slow Death Under Siege

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 6

Palestinian activist and teacher Odeh Hathaleen was shot dead by a settler. His body is still being withheld. The killer walks free. Odeh’s story is not the exception -- It is the rule in the West Bank.
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The Grotesque Injustice of Everyday Life in the West Bank

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 6

“When a student falls unconscious, we just assume they have not eaten for two days. And we move on.”

Eman Basher spoke to Dr. Izzedin Shahin, who works while starving, stitching wounds that won’t heal for lack of protein.

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Starvation as a Weapon: Gaza’s Slow Death Under Siege

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Aug 4

As Columbia University agrees to a $200 million settlement with the Trump administration, professor Rashid Khalidi slams repression of pro-Palestinian voices at the school and says the institution's leadership seeks to "protect Israel from criticism at all costs."

Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 3

Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community.

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

@nadinebahour.bsky.social examines how Israel has used hunger as a central tool in its campaign against Gaza, blocking aid, targeting farms and food warehouses, and creating deadly aid sites. Starvation is a calculated weapon of war.

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

Amid bombs and blackout, Malak Hijazi finds refuge in books. From Simone de Beauvoir to Muin Bseiso, she reads to endure, to resist, and to remember. A moving account of life, loss, and literature under siege.

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Gaza Diary: Reading to Resist

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

Urgent letter to Pope Leo XIV from Palestinian journalist Hind Shraydeh, writing from occupied Palestine. She pleads for action as Gaza faces mass death, hunger, and the destruction of churches and lives. “Gaza is betrayed by everyone it once trusted.”

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The Final Cry: "My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Us?"

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the university’s deal with the Trump administration & adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide.

His open letter: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

I Spent Decades at Columbia. I’m Withdrawing my Fall Course Due to Its Deal With Trump

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