Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul.. This week, we are telling the tale of two cities: Istanbul and Jerusalem.We explore how memory, resistance and street singers shape the cultural pulse of the cities ...

And so, in the land of Palestine, amidst the rubble and the ruins, a quiet revolution stirs. It is not just for the reclamation of power, but for the reclamation of life itself, in all its fragile ...

As part of the Long Reads podcast on Jacobin Radio, we’ve produced a miniseries called Red Star Over Palestine: Histories of the Palestinian Left. The six episodes of the series look at the impact of ...

PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: "His Majesty's ...

Movies have no relevance if they turn away from reality, which is what the distribution struggles of "No Other Land" and ...

‘Rooted in this land until death’: A Palestinian family’s olive harvest. How one family endured a violent harvest season amid settler attacks and army raids on their occupied West Bank village.

The aversion to the word “Palestine” can be traced back to a traumatic episode in Jewish history. In the 2nd century CE, following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt, the Roman Empire ...

Even Palestinian Bedouins who are citizens of Israel are being kicked off their land, human rights groups and activists say. About 120,000 Palestinians live in so-called “unrecognised villages ...

Land is more than a physical resource — it is the foundation of identity, freedom and dignity in places as far-flung as North America, Australia and New Zealand to Gaza, India and Brazil.

Palestine, renowned for its ancient, terraced hillsides, fertile plains, bountiful olive trees and diverse ecosystems, is facing ecocide. Ecocide, which is the deliberate and systematic destruction of ...