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Kareem Rabie's brilliant new book addresses the conundrums of Israeli settler colonialism and Palestinian state-building in the West Bank from ethnographically and theoretically incisive perspectives. Palestinian capitalists collaborate closely with Qatari funders, UN bureaucracies, EU politicians and investors, liberal US Zionists, and Israel itself because "the PA state project is for a neoliberal Palestine, a late capitalist state emerging in the West Bank and within a settler state's imperatives. [Extracted from the article]

Walking Palestine: 25 Journeys into the West Bank: by Stefan Szepesi, Interlink Books, 2020, 272 pp., £15.22, ISBN: 978-1-62371-927-2 In the Guide to the Holy Land by Father Barnabas Meistermann published in 1923 Father Barnabas recommends the following: Substantial woollen garments are recommended, and particularly woollen underwear. The 1906 edition of Baedeker's I Guide to Palestine and Syria i contains a perforated slip strategically placed before the title page which reads, 'The excessive zeal of the Turkish censorship sometimes even extends to the confiscation of guidebooks. [Extracted from the article]

In I The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft i , authors Michelle Pace and Somdeep Sen explore the motivations of various stakeholders in engaging with Palestinian "state" institutions, even as a full state continues to elude them. Secondly, the authors could have better clarified the fact that the PA (and many Palestinians who work within its institutions) came from the Palestinian Liberation Organization. [Extracted from the article]

Rabie similarly learns that 'Unlike other contexts where neoliberalization demands the state's dismantlement, here an economic neoliberalization process is forging the state' (p. 110). 978-1478014096 Rabie's volume teases out academic notions to understand the real-world dynamics of a future-denying present, that is sold to Palestinians both as fate and emancipation. [Extracted from the article]

As one of the first social scientists to conduct research in Rawabi, Rabie offers a valuable account of the city and of the local Palestinian experience amid the ongoing Israeli occupation and dwindling popular legitimacy of the PA. About 9 km north of Ramallah rises Rawabi, the first planned city in Palestine and, according to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the model of a would-be Palestinian nation-state. [Extracted from the article]

This is a film review of The Gatekeepers (2013) directed by Dror Moreh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review article explores the escalating racism and intensifying colonialism of the Israeli state and its circumscription of Palestinian lives and aspirations. Under such increasingly brutal circumstances, it asks what it means to be Palestinian today. How is the systematic reduction of human possibility, enacted over generations since the nakba, experienced by its victims? This is the question addressed by the three books reviewed here: Arthur Neslen, In Your Eyes a Sandstorm; Dina Matar, What it Means to Be Palestinian; and Ilan Pappé, The Forgotten Palestinians. The short answer is, it depends on their relationship to Israel: whether as second-class citizens in Israel; as occupied and now variously disengaged in the West Bank and Gaza (dominated, but no longer exploited, as cheap labour since Oslo); as semi-incorporated in an annexed East Jerusalem; or, finally, as completely excluded refugees exiled outside historic Palestine. Beginning with the experiences of Palestinians in Israel-Palestine, it then moves out to the Arab world, where, it concludes, not only most of the remainder of the Palestinian refugees reside, but also perhaps the most compelling answer to the riddle of the Palestinian question. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Reviews the non-fiction book "Still Small Voices," by John and Janet Wallach.

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Reviews the non-fiction book 'Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel,' by Avram S. Bornstein.

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The article offers a review of the Qalandiya International art festival held from January 11-15, 2013 at various locations in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Titled "Gestures in Time," the event featured works by various artists including Nardeen Srouji, Mustafa Hallaj and Jumana Manna.

The article offers a preview of the documentary film "The Law in These Parts," directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz.

The article reviews the book "Walking Palestine," by Stefan Szepesi.