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Susan Muaddi Darraj’s communal story-telling weaves together the themes of the inheritance of exile between generations and the fragmentation of Palestinian lives across homeland and the diaspora. Source
Posts Tagged ‘exile’
Israeli Defense Minister: Hamas Leaders in Exile Are Dead Men Walking
November 19th, 2023 
Awake Goy JERUSALEM, Israel — Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant vowed Saturday night that all Hamas operatives would be killed — including those outside Gaza, sheltering in comfortable exile in Arab states like Qatar. “There is no difference between a terrorist who walks around with a Kalashnikov … and a terrorist who wears a three-piece suit […]
Iran on the Day Imam Khomeini Returned from Exile
February 2nd, 2023 Awake Goy February 2, 2023 By Al-Ahed News On February 1st, 1979, millions of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran and the roads surrounding Mehrabad Airport to welcome Imam Khomeini as he returned from his exile in Paris despite threats to bomb the plane he was onboard. The photos below depict the popular celebrations marking his […]
Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity – Book Review
January 21st, 2023 Awake Goy January 13, 2023 By Jim Miles (Imagining Palestine – Cultures of Exile and National Identity. Tahrir Hamdi. I. B. Taurus, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, 2023.) In her recent work, “Imagining Palestine”, Tahrir Hamdi has made an intriguing, thought-provoking, and challenging discussion on the idea and reality of Palestine. Imagining Palestine is the ongoing process of remembering […]
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No Comments »Shaping Palestinian memory in exile: An interview with Palestinian-Chilean author Lina Meruane
July 24th, 2022 Awake Goy Award-winning Palestinian-Chilean author Lina Meruane reflects on the place of Palestine in her writing Source
Tigrayan Christians plant more churches in exile
June 17th, 2022 Awake Goy Ethiopia (Mission Network News) — Despite a ceasefire in the civil war earlier this year, the humanitarian crisis continues in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. The agricultural system, which employed three-quarters of all Tigray people, has been effectively destroyed by the war. Hospitals have run out of drugs for cancer patients and often simply […]
US Has “Contingency” For Ukraine Government-In-Exile & Covert Guerrilla Warfare
March 6th, 2022 Awake Goy The reports reveal that “a flurry of planning” at the State Department has been happening since the Russian invasion kicked off a week-and-a-half ago. “We’re doing contingency planning now for every possibility,” a Biden admin official was quoted in Washington Post as saying, which also named Poland as the likely location for a Ukrainian government […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: contingency, covert, exile, government, guerrilla, Ukraine, warfare No Comments »Georgia Arrests Ex-President Saakashvili After Return From 8-Year Exile In Ukraine
October 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy The Republic of Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili made a surprise announcement earlier this week, confirming that he had returned to Georgia after eight years in exile – during which time he mostly lived in Ukraine, and was still politically active, even rising to prominence in Ukrainian politics. On Friday the government of Georgia issued […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, arrests, exile, Georgia, president, return, saakashvili No Comments »Afghan President Was Politically Isolated Before Slipping Into Exile
August 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Afghan President Ashraf Ghani slipped out of his country Sunday in the same way he had led it in recent years — a lonely and isolated figure. Ghani quietly left the sprawling presidential palace with a small coterie of confidants — and didn’t even tell other political leaders who had been negotiating a peaceful transition […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: afghan, before, exile, isolated, politically, president, slipping No Comments »Trump, even in exile, is the Republican Party’s cash cow
May 20th, 2021 Awake Goy If the committee’s intent was to leave the impression that it was moving on from Trump, it was short-lived. Ten days later, the RNC sent another fundraising email, titled “Thank you, President Trump.” Over the subsequent days, the account sent 15 emails decrying Trump’s impeachment for instigating those riots. From there, the embrace only tightened. […]
Imagining Palestine: On Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the Language of Exile
February 28th, 2021 Awake Goy February 24, 2021 An archive photo of Mourid Barghouti with his late wife Radwa Ashour. (Via: Mourid Barghouti’s Twitter account) By Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: barghouti, Darwish, exile, imagining, kanafani, language, Palestine No Comments »Imagining Palestine: Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the language of exile
February 26th, 2021 Awake Goy For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. Nor is it an ethereal notion, a sentiment, a poetic verse. It is all of this, combined. Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti died […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: barghouti, Darwish, exile, imagining, kanafani, language, Palestine No Comments »Tibetans in northern India go to the polls to elect government-in-exile
January 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Hundreds of Tibetans in exile have been voting to choose a new political leader. The election took place in India’s northern city of Dharamsala, which is home to Tibet’s government-in-exile. Voters wore masks as a COVID-19 precaution as they cast their ballots during the first round of the election. One of them was Lobsang Sangay, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: elect, exile, government, India, northern, polls, tibetans No Comments »Exclusive: Leftist in U.S. Threatens to Kill Cuban Exile Leader on Monetized YouTube Video
December 12th, 2020 Awake Goy A sympathizer of the Cuban Communist Party located in Miami threatened the life of the head of one of the most prominent anti-communist activists in the Cuban exile community this week, referencing the bloody assassination of Russian Marxist leader Leon Trotsky. The death threat occurred in a video that YouTube is still currently hosting at […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: cuban, exclusive, exile, leader, Leftist, monetized, threatens No Comments »Abulhawa on her Palestinian epic: ‘My exile has defined my life and I don’t need to account for the sensitivities of the people who did that to me’
December 4th, 2020 Awake Goy This is a celebration– and it’s in our podcast this week. A few months back, Susan Abulhawa published “Against the Loveless World”, an epic novel about the travels of a Palestinian refugee who ends up in an Israeli prison. The book deserves wide attention because it is a Palestinian’s story told completely outside the American […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: abulhawa, account, defined, exile, palestinian, people, sensitivities No Comments »‘Library of Exile’ exhibit opens at British Museum before resettlement in Iraq
September 12th, 2020 Awake Goy LONDON — “Library of Exile,” an installation created by the acclaimed British artist and writer Edmund de Waal, was given a second chance for viewing in the artist’s hometown when London’s British Museum reopened to the public on August 27. The British Museum had been closed for the last five months due to the coronavirus […]
Ending seventy years of exile for Palestinian refugees
May 11th, 2018 Awake Goy As I write this piece 47 Palestinians have been shot dead and thousands injured in Gaza by the Israeli army since the beginning of the “Great Return March” on March 30th. The March demands the realization of the right of return of Palestine refugees to the territory from which they were displaced between 1947 and […]
The Rohingya, Facing Turmoil in Exile, Welcomed Back to Myanmar With Words but Not Action
May 10th, 2018 Awake Goy The English-language Bangkok Post reported on May 5 that the Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar will be safe, according to the military there, as long as they stay confined to the camps being set up for them. Myanmar’s current commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, told a visiting delegation from the UN Security […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: exile, facing, Myanmar, rohingya, turmoil, welcomed, words No Comments »Families as pawns: Israel pressures Palestinians into exile through foreign spouse visas
November 18th, 2017 Awake Goy Like many young married couples across the world, Claire and her husband have a five-year-plan. But instead of their main concern being how to deal with the imminent arrival of their first child, Claire’s family is facing the very real possibility of expulsion and exile. Like scores of other foreigners married to Palestinians in the […]
Posted in World News Tags: exile, families, israel, Palestinians, pawns, pressures, through No Comments »Nazi genocide survivor "felt in exile" in Israel
October 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Adri Nieuwhof 19 October 2017 Jacques Bude Adri Nieuwhof Jacques Bude survived the Nazi genocide because he was saved by Belgians as a child. His parents were deported and murdered in Auschwitz. A retired professor, Bude supports the call for a boycott of Israeli universities complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. He lectured in […]
French Cop in Exile for Posting Pic of ISIS Leader as State Enemy
July 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Andrew AnglinDaily Stormer July 20, 2017 Pfffff. Friggin anti-Semitic racist. ISIS is a great ally of the West and more importantly a great ally of the world’s only democracy, Israel. The fact that they ran over some people with a peace truck or shot up some people in a theatre in France […]
California Lawmakers Raise Minimum Smoking Age from 18 to 21
March 21st, 2016 Awake Goy Unless you’re in the military, Californians will need to be 21 tosmoke if bill becomes law. If a bill passed by California legislators is signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, Californians would be required to be 21 years of age before smoking. The law would not apply to persons in […]
