Review: Sandy Tolan’s ‘Children of the Stone’
Electronic Intifada, 14th August 2015 To be completely honest, I was expecting this book to be pretty bad. And I have to admit that my preconceptions were comprehensively challenged. As … Continue reading
The Seaside
A while ago, I wrote this short story – my first in years, if not decades. And then a few months ago, I sent it in to a writing website’s … Continue reading
New review: Lital Levy’s ‘Poetic Trespass’
Electronic Intifada, 19 May 2015 Rather, Levy puts forward an analysis of the ways in which literature and language have operated in the dark corners of this power-ridden, unequal environment. … Continue reading
Janarthanan
Characteristically wise and horrible words from Ghassan Hage: You chose the wrong place to douse yourself in petrol and set yourself alight Janarthanan, Don’t even expect to make the front … Continue reading
End-of-year clearinghouse (1): London and bombs
During the summer, I met up with an Australian friend visiting the UK, and we went for lunch at the Wellcome Institute on Euston Road. At the door, our bags … Continue reading
New article: 'After Zionism' reviewed
Electronic Intifada, 15th August 2012 After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine is a new collection of essays edited by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor. It is important to … Continue reading
Bradt Guide to Palestine in GLW
The Bradt Guide to Palestine was listed as one of Green Left Weekly’s top choices for summer reading (this is an Australian publication!). Many thanks to Patrick Harrison, who recently … Continue reading
New article: Murdered for being Palestinian
Electronic Intifada, 2nd October 2011 On 16 October 1972, Wael Zuaiter, the Fatah spokesman in Rome, was shot dead on his doorstep by a team of Mossad assassins. He was … Continue reading
New article: Australian activists put Palestine travel ban on trial
Electronic Intifada, 26th September 2011 Hundreds of those who tried to challenge Israeli control of Palestine’s frontiers were prevented even from boarding their planes in Europe, as Israeli blacklists were … Continue reading
New article: 'Palestine peace activists speak'
From Green Left Weekly, 4th September 2011 “People safely outside the situation sometimes ask ‘Why don’t more Palestinians use non-violent protest?’ says Michael Riordon is his concluding chapter to Our … Continue reading
Britain's new erosion of the Right to Choose
Despite the unusual spectacle of glorious weather over the bank holiday weekend, coming back to the UK has been a fairly depressing experience. My gorgeously grumpy Yorkshire grandfather used to … Continue reading
Moss Side open day photos
For various reasons I’ve been distinctly ambivalent about returning home to Manchester in the coming weeks. But this set of wonderful images from Hannah Beatrice, reporting the ‘Open Yardens‘ event … Continue reading
New article: Tutu boosts Murdoch-battered BDS campaign in Sydney
Electronic Intifada, 5th July 2011 At a small ceremony on 7 June in Marrickville, a Sydney suburb, local mayor Fiona Byrne was presented with a letter of support from the … Continue reading
AFF: Opening Night
I’ve been in Sydney less than 2 months but the opening night of the Arab Film Festival in Parramatta was packed with familiar faces (some more welcome than others). The … Continue reading
I met Murder on the way…
As with much of the rest of Australia, Sydney’s street names bear the stamp of its British colonial past – Pitt, George,Sussex and so on. One of the main thoroughfares … Continue reading
Sarah Irving 