Barely three percent of Gaza’s drinking water wells is fit for human consumption, and the crisis is claiming lives.
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Sandy Tolan is author of the international bestseller, The Lemon Tree, and of the acclaimed Children of the Stone, about one Palestinian’s dream to es... tablish music schools under Israel’s military occupation. He is a professor at the Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication at the University of Southern California.
Barely three percent of Gaza’s drinking water wells is fit for human consumption, and the crisis is claiming lives.
Contaminated and scarce water owing to Israel’s brutal siege and bombing of infrastructure leads to death and disease.
The scholar’s quest for ‘an alternative way of making peace’ is chronicled in Tolan’s upcoming book.
The Ramallah Orchestra’s journey through – and over – Israeli barriers to star in the Holy City.
The arrest of acclaimed musician, Oday Khatib, sheds light on Israel’s draconian system of arrest and detention.
A mass urban migration has taken hold in Egypt as the agricultural sector focuses on luxury exports instead of bread.
Whatever transpires at the UN, the world should focus on what is happening on the ground in Palestine.
Protest designed to show Egyptians’ unity exposed fundamental divisions within the country’s society.
After an odyssey that underscored the realities of Israeli occupation, Picasso’s ‘Buste de Femme’ arrives in Ramallah.
A secret meeting 44 years ago could have changed the course of Middle Eastern history. But it never happened.