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Border Zones, Issue 38 |
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Editorial |
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An order signed by the Israeli Minister of Interior closing the Palestine National Theatre in Jerusalem was tacked on the theatre’s door by a squadron of surly policemen on the opening and closing night of the June 2009 Palestine Festival of Literature. For those fearing the death of the book, it was perhaps good news that the “culture of power,” in the name of the Minister of Interior, feared the
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Features
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Demographic Architecture
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Eyal Weizman
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Like many colonial cities, Jerusalem has its dark enclaves for its native inhabitants, ruled by the border police, with surprise checkpoints between neighbourhoods. For the Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem, unlike the Jewish residents, hardly an
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An Architectural Laboratory of the Extreme? Reflections on Weizman’s Hollow Land
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Salim Tamari
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Eyal Weizman’s Hollow Land is the first systematic study of Israel’s regime of spatial control, combining the insights of political geography, architecture, semiotics, theories of counterinsurgency, and an appreciation for the shifting ideological t
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“We Only Want to Live”: From Israeli Domination Towards Palestinian Decency in Shu’fat and Other Confined Jerusalem Neighborhoods
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Slyvaine Bulle
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In the last decade, critical studies have considered the question of space in the Palestinian territories, and in particular in East Jerusalem, mainly from a geopolitical point of view, deploying geography, political science and political philosophy
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Routes: Journeys from Behind the Wall
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Tina Sherwell
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I’ve been commuting between Shu’fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem and Ramallah for the last six years. For the last two years I’ve been commuting at least five times a week. If I think back to where my journeys began, and why I commute from Shu’fat
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Intervention: (Self) Urbanization and the contours of political space in Dheisheh Refugee Camp
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Nasser Abourahme & Sandi Hilal
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The following is a brief — but thought-provoking – excerpt from “The Production of Space, Political Subjectivication and the Folding of Polarity: the case of Dheisheh Camp, Palestine,” to be published in Peripheries: Decentering Urban Theory, edited
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Derailing Injustice: Palestinian Civil Resistance to the “Jerusalem Light Rail”
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Omar Barghouti
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“Swimming against the tide” is regarded by many cultures, including Arab culture, as unwise, if not altogether irrational and desperately futile; swimming against the tide and hoping to reach your desired destination would, then, defy common sense a
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“Going Beserk”:“Black and Tans” in Palestine
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Richard Andrew Cahill
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The role that former “Black and Tans” played in Palestine during the years prior to 1948 has not been adequately studied. Their story does not begin there, but rather with the British actions in Ireland several years earlier. The “Black and Tans,” w
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Nostalgia and Promise in Jerusalem’s Derelict Ottoman Railway Station
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Yair Wallach
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The piece Station was written as a “performance-essay”, intended for a theatre piece or a short film.1 The piece takes place in Jerusalem’s late-Ottoman railway station and revolves around its history, present and future, through a collage of voices
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Under Occupation: Celebrations and Contradictions of al-Quds Capital of Arab Culture 2009
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Varsen Aghabekian
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The celebration of al-Quds Jerusalem as the 2009 Capital of Arab Culture has been debated ever since the decision was made by the Ministers of Arab Culture in 2006 and accepted by Palestine. Opponents argued that it is inadmissible to confer legitim
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Letter from Atarot
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Penny Johnson
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“Ana,” said the young good-natured man, pointing to the embroidered logo on his chest, which read “Oppenheimer.” After a circuitous search through the maze of the Atarot industrial zone looking for Oppenheimer chocolates – an Israeli company which h
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Bus 18 Then: A Portrait of “Eluds” by A Young Artist Now Grown Old
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Vladimir Tamari
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Although we were born in Jerusalem, we grew up in the windy freedom of al Bireh and Ramallah, the twin towns nestled on hills, and surrounded by villages. My very frequent visits to Jerusalem were a natural extension of our daily life. Jump on bus n
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Night Hunters: A Journey withMurad
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Suad Amiry
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Suad Amiry’s new book, Murad, Murad, scheduled for publication in Italian in the summer of 2009, is the story of her eighteen-hour journey in 2007 with Murad, an “illegal” Palestinian worker and his friends, as they attempt to cross the “border” int
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Bus 18 in Ramallah
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Joan Mandell
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When I lived in Ramallah in the 1980s I took Bus 18 to Jerusalem for work and pleasure. I loved the old buses adorned with fancy grillwork. Often crowded with talkative passengers heaped with groceries and the delightful smells of fresh-picked green
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