Palestine

Chop Shop: Bodies of Work

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos: Saving a Nation From a Trash-Filled Canyon

ACLU Appeals Israeli 'War Crimes' Metro Bus Ruling--'War with Jewish People' Tempted Again

​The battle over The Bus Ad That Wasn't will continue. Did I say battle? Make that the "WAR with Jewish people."

Ask a Mexican!

​The battle over The Bus Ad That Wasn't will continue. Did I say battle? Make that the "WAR with Jewish people."

King County Metro Refuses to Run Idiotic Health Advertisements

​Remember last year when the anti-Israeli group wanted to put ads on King County buses that showed the bloody aftermath of missile strikes in Palestine? It was those ads that led to a new policy by Metro of refusing any politically themed ads on buses. That policy appears to be paying off now ... More >>

Miral: Julian Schnabel Films His Girlfriend’s Life Story

​Remember last year when the anti-Israeli group wanted to put ads on King County buses that showed the bloody aftermath of missile strikes in Palestine? It was those ads that led to a new policy by Metro of refusing any politically themed ads on buses. That policy appears to be paying off now ... More >>

A Voice From the Inside of Egypt

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.​I sat last week, totally immersed in CNN, from about Tuesday night until sometime Friday when I had to finally get out of the house. The situation in Egypt--and Tunisia, for that matter--ha ... More >>

Dow Constantine's Ban of Anti-Israeli/Palestinian Bus Ads Costs County Its Best Argument For Changing Policy

​King County Executive Dow Constantine would have had a credible argument that the Metro Transit system's policy of allowing controversial "for cause" advertising on buses was costing too much in staff time and resources and should be changed. Unfortunately, he may have lost the bulk of that c ... More >>

Anti-Israeli Ads on Metro Buses Are a Masterstroke of Viral Advertising

​The cost for the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign to purchase four weeks of advertising space on 12 King County Metro buses for an ad the group wants to run that's critical of U.S. support for Israel was $2,760. But the amount of local and national buzz created by the controversial ads is l ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

​The cost for the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign to purchase four weeks of advertising space on 12 King County Metro buses for an ad the group wants to run that's critical of U.S. support for Israel was $2,760. But the amount of local and national buzz created by the controversial ads is l ... More >>

Short Stories Live

​The cost for the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign to purchase four weeks of advertising space on 12 King County Metro buses for an ad the group wants to run that's critical of U.S. support for Israel was $2,760. But the amount of local and national buzz created by the controversial ads is l ... More >>

Spectrum Dance Theater

​The cost for the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign to purchase four weeks of advertising space on 12 King County Metro buses for an ad the group wants to run that's critical of U.S. support for Israel was $2,760. But the amount of local and national buzz created by the controversial ads is l ... More >>

Joe Sacco

​The cost for the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign to purchase four weeks of advertising space on 12 King County Metro buses for an ad the group wants to run that's critical of U.S. support for Israel was $2,760. But the amount of local and national buzz created by the controversial ads is l ... More >>

Tonight: Gabriel Teodros Replaces DAM At Vera Project

​Tonight would have been the second time DAM-- Palestine's preeminent hip-hop group, featured in the documentary Slingshot Hip Hop-- would have featured in Seattle this year, which speaks to the devoted local following they've cultivated, drawing strongly from supporters and organizers from th ... More >>

SIFF Review: Laila's Birthday

The sound of glass shattering in the early morning hours is the first hint that all is not well outside the tranquil domestic incubator Abu Laila (Mohammed Bakri) has erected for his wife and young daughter. And soon, after Abu drops his beloved Laila off at school in his taxi and promises to return ... More >>

Am I a Closet Lebanese?

The sound of glass shattering in the early morning hours is the first hint that all is not well outside the tranquil domestic incubator Abu Laila (Mohammed Bakri) has erected for his wife and young daughter. And soon, after Abu drops his beloved Laila off at school in his taxi and promises to return ... More >>

Last Night: Slingshot Hip-Hop at the Hidmo

Haneen Ahmad For those who didn't catch it, the amazing documentary, Slingshot Hip-Hop, was screened on Saturday night at the University of Washington. It's the story of how Palestinian MCs based in Gaza, the West Bank, and within Israel are using hip-hop as a means of fighting the oppression they f ... More >>

Sahmatah: Memory of Stones

Haneen Ahmad For those who didn't catch it, the amazing documentary, Slingshot Hip-Hop, was screened on Saturday night at the University of Washington. It's the story of how Palestinian MCs based in Gaza, the West Bank, and within Israel are using hip-hop as a means of fighting the oppression they f ... More >>

Bomb It: Waging a Jihad With Spray-Paint

Haneen Ahmad For those who didn't catch it, the amazing documentary, Slingshot Hip-Hop, was screened on Saturday night at the University of Washington. It's the story of how Palestinian MCs based in Gaza, the West Bank, and within Israel are using hip-hop as a means of fighting the oppression they f ... More >>

Joe Sacco

Capturing the intifada with pen and ink

Visual Arts Calendar

Capturing the intifada with pen and ink

Will Ferrell on Ice! Plus Other Releases

Capturing the intifada with pen and ink

This Earth Is Our Earth

Capturing the intifada with pen and ink

Radical, Meat-Eating Women

Capturing the intifada with pen and ink

War on the War on Drugs

Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 2005

A Creative Explosion

Terrorism changes the world. Can art say the same?

Iraq Flack

Out of uniform, Control Room's military spokesperson has plenty to say, with even more candor, about how the Iraq war is being reported.

Painted From Memory

A nation is born while a family dissolves in Amos Oz's beautifully sad, intricate, elliptical memoir.

Roughs on the Diamond

A nation is born while a family dissolves in Amos Oz's beautifully sad, intricate, elliptical memoir.

The Unheard Music

Atlanta's Dust-to-Digital and Seattle's Sublime Frequencies labels mine lost archives of glorious sound.

De-Zionification

U.S. Jews rethink the state of Israel.

Beirut-Bombay Express

Cedars plays the fusion card and takes the pot.

This Week's Reads

Jonathan Wilson, Heidi Julavits, and John Haskell.

Letters to the Editor

'Geov Parrish's column about the death of Rachel Corrie sounds like the kind of deliberate, willful, one-sided, manipulative screed one would expect to find in Pravda. ...'

Death of a Human Shield

The killing of Olympias Rachel Corrie in a Palestinian refugee camp illustrates the strengthsand limitsof placing oneself in harms way.

Lucky Star

A six-pointed look at this week's Jewish Film Festival offerings.

Throwing Stones

Palestinian suffering is seen through a cracked lens.

News That Wasn't

Palestinian suffering is seen through a cracked lens.

"I doubt that the Palestinians being discriminated against, humiliated, arrested, and killed find comfort in the ethnic diversity of their persecutors. . . . "

Palestinian suffering is seen through a cracked lens.

The Phish Factor

Trying to understand why so many lefties support Palestine.

Update from the battlefields

Dispatches from Nablus and Jenin.

"If you race these fragile, magnificent creatures for human entertainment, there are going to be dead horses."

Dispatches from Nablus and Jenin.

Letters to the Editor

We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

May Day comes early

We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

A rumor of war

Local activists find themselves among hundreds of "internationals" who have stepped into a war zone in the West Bank. Why?

What would King Solomon do?

Beware of easy answers to the Palestinian crisis.

Foreign correspondence

Beware of easy answers to the Palestinian crisis.

Days of our nights

Beware of easy answers to the Palestinian crisis.

When The Seattle Times decided that employing a cranky thief was more

Beware of easy answers to the Palestinian crisis.

Thinking man's theater

A fine new one-man show, and an even finer actor.