Palestine

Writing from Palestine about trauma and the complacency of language.

On writing secondhand trauma, cycles of behavior, and the loneliness of internalized homophobia.

Stirring the memory of depopulated Palestinian villages, more than 400 of which were destroyed in 1948 to create what we know now as the West Bank, And Yet My Mask Is Powerful considers how time might be suspended, unrealized, or even ahistorical. 

Jewish identity and oppression, at home and abroad.

“It’s like bouncing ideas back and forth with a friend, but the friend is you.”

The personal and the political, accompanied by a few drinks.

Working with, and through, conflict.

Liza Béar sits down with Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, whose documentary tells of the building of a separation barrier on the West Bank.