Familiar Touch is a coming of (old) age film. It follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting desires and self-narratives amidst her shifting age identity and memory.

In what has become a classic of Middle Eastern literature, Raja Shehadeh, in Palestinian Walks, wrote of his treks through the hills surrounding Ramallah over a period of three decades under Israel’s occupation.
In Where the Line Is Drawn, Shehadeh explores how occupation has affected him personally, chronicling the various crossings that he undertook into Israel over a period of forty years to visit friends and family, to enjoy the sea, to argue before the Israeli courts, and to negotiate failed peace agreements.
Those forty years also saw him develop a close friendship with Henry, a Canadian Jew who immigrated to Israel at around the same time Shehadeh returned to Palestine from studying in London. While offering an unforgettably poignant exploration of Palestinian-Israeli relationships, Where the Line Is Drawn also provides an anatomy of friendship and an exploration of whether, in the bleakest of circumstances, it is possible for bonds to transcend political divisions.

“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much taller than me, with dark black, intense eyes, and wearing soldier fatigues. “In fact I was once here with my wife, it was 1999, and some of your soldiers shot at us.”

“It was over on that side,” the soldier pointed out, smiling. “I was there.”

When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was traveling through a vanishing landscape. In recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel.

In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth and ancient monasteries built more than a thousand years ago. Shehadeh's love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography. But latterly, as seemingly endless concrete is poured to build settlements and their surrounding walls, he finds the old trails are now impassable and the countryside he once traversed freely has become contested ground. He is harassed by Israeli border patrols, watches in terror as a young hiking companion picks up an unexploded missile and even, on one occasion when accompanied by his wife, comes under prolonged gunfire.

Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh's elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor for the deprivations of an entire people estranged from their land.

In 1948 the history of Palestine changed forever. In the land where Christianity was born, little is ever said about the Christian minority. Tracing their roots back to the early Christians they have lived side by side with Muslims and Jews for almost two thousand years. An integral part of Palestinian society, they have shared in the events of recent history, yet their voices are seldom heard and worse: their existence often ignored.

这部围绕着以色列隔离带的纪录片由出生在摩洛哥的犹太女导演Simone Bitton制作。对以色列国防部长的访谈贯穿全片，他声称隔离带的作用是防止阿拉伯人恐怖袭击与盗窃，这条每千米造价200万美元的隔离带根据作用与施工环境的不同有多种构建形式：农田上的铁丝网妨碍了阿拉伯农民收获果实，有时只能看着果实烂在地里；居民区中间的水泥墙、哨卡分开了犹太人与阿拉伯人，孩子们在高墙下成长……为养家糊口而参与围墙施工的巴勒斯坦工头叮嘱导演去掉他的形象，因为这可能导致他被追杀。在影片最后，加沙地区又一次被封锁了。
本片获2004年马赛纪录片电影节最高奖。2005年圣丹斯电影节纪录类评委会特别奖。

While interest in Middle Eastern cuisines has blossomed, the nuances and subtleties of Palestinian food are still relatively unexplored. In The Palestinian Table , Reem Kassis weaves together a tapestry of personal anecdotes, local traditions, and historical context, sharing with home cooks her collection of delicious, easy-to-follow recipes that range from simple breakfasts and speedy salads to celebratory dishes fit for a feast - giving rare insight into the heart and hearth of the Palestinian family kitchen.

法国剧情片。安娜玛丽·雅西尔导演。苏埃尔·哈马德、萨莱赫·巴克里主演。28岁的索拉雅从小在纽约布鲁克林区长大。她决定返回巴勒斯坦她的祖父母的故乡。她想领回被银行冻结的祖父母帐户中的钱，但被银行拒绝。她结识一名巴勒斯坦青年埃马德，埃马德一心一意只想离开巴勒斯坦。本片曾参加2008年戛纳电影节“一种关注”单元。

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities of their relationship.

A vocal and fearless opponent, Aziz resists under the British mandatory period, then under Jordan, and, finally, under Israel. As a young man, Raja fails to recognise his father's courage and, in turn, his father does not appreciate Raja's own efforts in campaigning for Palestinian human rights. When Aziz is murdered in 1985, it changes Raja irrevocably.

This is not only the story of the battle against the various oppressors of the Palestinians, but a moving portrait of a particular father and son relationship.

1948年，14岁女孩法哈住在巴勒斯坦一座小村庄，即便已到了成婚的年纪，她却想继续接受教育。村长父亲虽然答应她的请求，战火却在此时绵延到他们的家园；随著以色列军队步步进逼，父亲担心女儿安危，将法哈关在一间窄小的食物储藏室。身处幽暗空间的她，透过牆上的小洞无声地见证了战争的残酷，人生也从此彻底改变...

In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah

"Few Palestinians have opened their minds and their hearts with such frankness."
—The New York Times

In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh, the Orwell Prize–winning author of Palestinian Walks, takes us on a series of journeys around his hometown of Ramallah. Set in a single day—the day that happens to be the fiftieth anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank—the book is a powerful and moving record and chronicle of the changing face of his city.

Here is a city whose green spaces—gardens and hills crowned with olive trees— have been replaced by tower blocks and concrete lots; where the Israeli occupation has further entrenched itself in every aspect of movement, from the roads that can and cannot be used to the bureaucratic barriers that prevent people leaving the West Bank. Here also is a city that is culturally shifting, where Islam is taking a more prominent role in people’s everyday and political lives and in the geography of the city.

A penetrating evocation of memory, pain, and place that is lightened by everyday joys such as delightful accounts of shared meals and gardening, Going Home is perhaps Raja Shehadeh’s most moving and painfully visceral addition to his series of personal histories of the occupation, confirming Rachel Kushner’s judgment that “Shehadeh is a buoy in a sea of bleakness.”

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on U.S. policy in the region

In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine deftly argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core principles to the oppression of Palestinians. In doing so, the authors take seriously the political concerns and well-being of both Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrating the extent to which U.S. policy has made peace harder to attain. They also unravel the conflation of advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel.

Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel's growing disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics with their values.

以色列的巴勒斯坦同性戀地下社群一瞥。在巴勒斯坦受到保守社會環境的迫害，或被認為是”以色列“收買的間諜；在”以色列“又被指控為非法居留的罪犯，或者以強制出櫃為要挾，被強迫為”以色列“情報部門”服務“，巴勒斯坦的同性戀者是這場衝突中的默默受害者。Louie 險被父親親手殺死，出逃後已經在Jaffa (被”以色列“佔領的巴勒斯坦海港城市，且被更名為”Tel Aviv“) 躲藏了十年，Abdu 也曾遭受親人暴力並因與”以色列“同性戀者的關係被巴勒斯坦政府指控從事間諜活動。無論他們走到哪裡，他們都生活在害怕被發現的恐懼中。只有在同性戀地下社群中，他們才能找到一點家的溫暖。而為了取得更多一點的自由，像普通人一樣的生活，他們必須離開生長的故土。

约旦，1967年。世界巨变：对能源的争夺、新潮流、新音乐、对未来憧憬的蔓延。在约旦，不同的变化在悄然发生：巴勒斯坦成千上万的难民正跨越边境线到约旦寻求避难。11岁的Tarek与母亲在难民队伍中，而他的父亲则在战乱中被迫与家庭分开。他们和1948年就逃难至此的前一代难民一起被安置在难民营的活动帐篷中，等待可以重返家乡的那一天。难民营中的生活窘困，期待能够和爸爸重逢的Tarek想法离开难民营，并看到了希望。他对自由的向往和好奇的天性带领一群有着同样向往的人踏上了一段改变命运的旅程。