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I was born in the spring of 1999 in the village of Khuza’a, east of the city of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. My family comes from a village called Salama, near Jaffa on the Palestinian coast, from which they were displaced by Zionist forces in 1948. Khuza’a was a place of green fields ..read more
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If Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo, collectively, a sea change in its vision of reality and face some unpleasant though obvious facts ..read more
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In Nicole Eisenman's paintings and sculptures, a system’s impending demise may reveal itself in feverish hilarity ..read more
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Seen from a certain perspective, Constance Debré’s recent trilogy of novels—Playboy, Love Me Tender, and Nom (Name)—looks ready-made to appeal to audiences hungry for autobiographical tales of female self-emancipation. The books are based on events from Debré’s own life, the facts of which are as follows: born into an illustrious French family, Debré grew up ..read more
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Antonio Canova’s clay models reveal the creative struggle behind the classical perfection of his marble sculptures ..read more
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The Met’s Harlem Renaissance exhibition reveals the eclecticism of Black artistic practices and styles ..read more
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The mid-century ideal of art as a departure into the unknown was not the exclusive property of heroic painters. Printmakers made cutting-edge art on a homier scale—and it was affordable ..read more
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Though exceptional, fully developed female characters abound in Gabriel García Márquez's work, only in his last novel, Until August, is a woman the uncontested protagonist on her own journey of self-discovery ..read more
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Two recent books of photographs by David Serry and Robert Stothard suggest there is no truth to the notion of a “Jewish race" with any unifying physical characteristics ..read more
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pace out the terrain bait the line with herring plant kale talk about the weather separate rumor from intelligence phrase against the pulse * bog has suffered damage the drained sites prone to scrub invasion slow the water flow raise the water table rewet cracked peat brash crushing stump flipping ground smoothing * who cares ..read more