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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Mahmoud Darwish

Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin, a film director from Fureidis (courtesy)
December 26, 2020, 12:56 pm
On bold TV show, Palestinian-Israeli director takes apart her society’s taboos
Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin’s Israel TV series, ironically titled ‘No Offense,’ tackles the hitherto unspeakable in Arab Israeli society… and her audience is growing
By Aaron Boxerman
Ex-Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters as he appears on 'Supremacy,' a reading of a Mahmoud Darwish poem with the music of a Palestinian oud trio in the background, to protest US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. (Facebook screenshot)
March 14, 2018, 9:36 pm
Waters joins in protest song on Trump’s Jerusalem recognition
Pink Floyd co-founder says verses from Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinians’ national poet, relevant to ‘all victims of settler colonialism everywhere’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Minister of Culture Miri Regev attends the premiere of the musical show 'Evita' at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 13, 2017, 12:38 am
Minister storms out of ceremony to protest Palestinian poem
Miri Regev assures crowd that she has no problem with other Arab poets, but says Mahmoud Darwish crosses a line
By ToI Staff
Roger Waters, British rock legend and co-founder of the group Pink Floyd, performs during a concert in Neve Shalom, 30 kms from Jerusalem in June 22, 2006. (AFP PHOTO / DAVID FURST)
April 21, 2017, 1:31 am
Roger Waters’ new album features track inspired by Palestinian poet
Song on first record in 25 years by anti-Israel campaigner and former Pink Floyd star based on Mahmoud Darwish poem
By David Sedley and AFP
Culture Minister Miri Regev speaks to a crowd at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 8, 2016, and receives boos in return (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
October 7, 2016, 2:27 pm
Culture minister vetting play about ‘Palestinian reality’ ahead of festival
‘Palestine Year Zero,’ a ‘documentary comedy’ about damage to Palestinian buildings, set for state-funded Jaffa fest; Regev warns of possible ‘harm to state and its symbols’
By Sue Surkes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a reception in the southern Israeli town of Netivot, September 15, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO).
September 25, 2016, 2:26 pm
You talkin’ to him? You talkin’ to him?
Netanyahu’s comparison of a soldier being tried on manslaughter to fallen troops, and his upcoming meeting with Trump and Clinton, raise questions about who is talking to and why
By Joshua Davidovich
Screenshot from the Israeli film 'Sand Storm.'
September 24, 2016, 3:47 am
In first, Israel selects all-Arabic film as its foreign language Oscars entry
‘Sand storm,’ a family drama set in the Bedouin community, is the feature debut for Jewish Israeli Elite Zexer
By JTA
Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev, February 17, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 23, 2016, 5:41 pm
Regev: Reciting Palestinian national poet’s work at ‘Israeli Oscars’ crossed red line
Culture minister defends her decision to storm out of hall over reading of work by Mahmoud Darwish, who she said called for destruction of Jewish state
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in New York, September 22, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
September 23, 2016, 4:01 pm
A farce on the international stage
PM’s no-nonsense UN address garners both praise and criticism in Hebrew press, but most commentators agree it will have little effect in the long run
By Adiv Sterman
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses the Knesset plenum on July 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 25, 2016, 7:24 pm
Liberman vows to improve conditions at West Bank crossings
At Knesset Q&A, defense minister tells lawmakers he will be ‘flexible’ on diplomacy, but uncompromising on security
By Marissa Newman
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a security discussion at the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee at the Knesset, on July 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 21, 2016, 4:02 pm
Liberman: Palestinian poet’s writings are like ‘Mein Kampf’
Defense minister tells Army Radio chief following program on works of Mahmoud Darwish that his legacy cannot be part of Israeli narrative
By Stuart Winer
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish seen during a signing for his new book in Amman, Jordan, February 23, 2008 (AP/Nader Daoud)
July 20, 2016, 12:52 pm
Broadcast on Palestinian poet Darwish puts Army Radio in crosshairs
Senior ministers slam public radio station over educational program that featured nationalist writer Mahmoud Darwish
By ToI Staff
MK Youssef Jabareen of the Joint (Arab) List at the Knesset, June 9, 2015 (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
June 21, 2015, 3:51 am
MK wants Arab educators to get same autonomy as Orthodox Jewish teachers
Georgetown-trained law professor Youssef Jabareen pushes new bill, warns young Arabs in Israel are alienated from their culture
By Elhanan Miller
President Reuven Rivlin speaks before the leadership of the International Friends of Givat Haviva, the Center for a Shared Society, on Thursday, May 28, 2015 (Mark Neyman/GPO)
May 28, 2015, 9:30 pm
Rivlin: ‘Shared’ Jewish-Arab identity key to Israel’s future
President says Israelis and Palestinians both connected to the land; attempts to force either side to relinquish its narrative ‘destined to fail’
By Daniel Bernstein
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, on September 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
September 26, 2014, 7:54 pm
Full text of Mahmoud Abbas’s speech to the UN
Israel has made this ‘a year of a new war of genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people,’ PA president tells UN GA
By ToI Staff
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