NOVANEWS by Tom Valentine Piper is truly amazing. Those of us who know him and have worked with him know the secret of his insightful writings. Mike has a photo memory and speed-reads with comprehension, […]
NOVANEWS I have reviewed Belén Fernández’s book on Thomas Friedman for Jadaliyya. An excerpt, then go read it there. A researcher once carried out an informal study to try to find out whether or not people actually read […]
NOVANEWS Al-Akhbar Management Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab. (Photo: Al-Akhbar) By: Hussam al-Saray Published Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Poet Muzaffar al-Nawab’s visit to Baghdad in May 2011 was one of Iraq’s national and cultural highlights this past year. In […]
NOVANEWS You are looking at a rare reproduction of a lost oil painting titled The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 by David Roberts, a member […]
NOVANEWS Jimmy Johnson Gabriel Piterberg noted in his masterful 2008 book The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel that the “achievements of the comparative study of settler colonialism have been at once scholarly […]
NOVANEWS BOOK REVIEW by Asmahan Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of […]
NOVANEWS Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada After the Nakba, Israel’s 1948 ethnic cleansing operations, only approximately 160,000 Palestinians were left within the borders of what became Israel. Their numbers grew to 600,000 by the mid-1980s (152), […]
NOVANEWS By As’ad AbuKhalil Angry Corner Gilbert Achcar’s book, The Arabs and the Holocaust, is a very good study of the subject of Arab attitudes toward the Holocaust. First, I must confess that Achcar and […]
GILAD ATZMON I love those interviews with Rinaldo. The man is extremely clever and very knowledgeable about the conflict. He then takes his time and produces pretty amazing clips. We spoke about the Palestinian UN […]
NOVANEWS David Cronin The Electronic Intifada Earlier this year, Israel’s embassy in Brussels resorted to moral blackmail in trying to muzzle debate about Palestine. It complained about how some members of the European Parliament held […]