West Bank

Budrus: An Uneasy Alliance in the Occupied Territories

Ajami: Arab Vs. Israeli Gets Even More Complicated

Palestinian Street's New Name is Rachel Corrie

Ramallah, a city with a "Stars & Bucks" cafe and, now, a street named after Rachel Corrie.​Rachel Corrie has taken a new leap into the realm of official martyrdom--at least among Palestinians. Yesterday, officials in the West Bank town of Ramallah named a street after the Olympia native, who s ... More >>

Ted Conover

Ramallah, a city with a "Stars & Bucks" cafe and, now, a street named after Rachel Corrie.​Rachel Corrie has taken a new leap into the realm of official martyrdom--at least among Palestinians. Yesterday, officials in the West Bank town of Ramallah named a street after the Olympia native, who s ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Ramallah, a city with a "Stars & Bucks" cafe and, now, a street named after Rachel Corrie.​Rachel Corrie has taken a new leap into the realm of official martyrdom--at least among Palestinians. Yesterday, officials in the West Bank town of Ramallah named a street after the Olympia native, who s ... More >>

Amreeka: Palestinians Find No Welcome in the U.S.

Ramallah, a city with a "Stars & Bucks" cafe and, now, a street named after Rachel Corrie.​Rachel Corrie has taken a new leap into the realm of official martyrdom--at least among Palestinians. Yesterday, officials in the West Bank town of Ramallah named a street after the Olympia native, who s ... More >>

SIFF Week 4: Picks and Pans

Ramallah, a city with a "Stars & Bucks" cafe and, now, a street named after Rachel Corrie.​Rachel Corrie has taken a new leap into the realm of official martyrdom--at least among Palestinians. Yesterday, officials in the West Bank town of Ramallah named a street after the Olympia native, who s ... More >>

SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans

By Brian Miller and SW staff

SIFF Review: Laila's Birthday

Toward the end of Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi's tragicomedy about daily life in his West Bank hometown, the frustrated protagonist shakes his fists at the heavens and blames the 60-year Israeli occupation for his woes. That's the only direct polemic in Laila's Birthday, and this beguiling ... More >>

Lemon Tree: Israeli Courts Address the Occupation

Toward the end of Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi's tragicomedy about daily life in his West Bank hometown, the frustrated protagonist shakes his fists at the heavens and blames the 60-year Israeli occupation for his woes. That's the only direct polemic in Laila's Birthday, and this beguiling ... 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 >>

Palestinian Hip-Hop Documentary Debuts in Seattle January 31

I just got an email this morning filled with good news for those that are paying attention to the situation in Gaza right now and want to learn more. Except, naturally, there's a musical twist.Independent filmmaker, Jackie Reem Salloum -- who I used to know briefly back in Michigan -- will be show ... More >>

"Empire"

I just got an email this morning filled with good news for those that are paying attention to the situation in Gaza right now and want to learn more. Except, naturally, there's a musical twist.Independent filmmaker, Jackie Reem Salloum -- who I used to know briefly back in Michigan -- will be show ... More >>

Museums, Bass Guitars, Punk Rock & Beer

I just got an email this morning filled with good news for those that are paying attention to the situation in Gaza right now and want to learn more. Except, naturally, there's a musical twist.Independent filmmaker, Jackie Reem Salloum -- who I used to know briefly back in Michigan -- will be show ... More >>

Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? : Morgan Spurlock Makes Like Lawrence of Arabia. Not.

I just got an email this morning filled with good news for those that are paying attention to the situation in Gaza right now and want to learn more. Except, naturally, there's a musical twist.Independent filmmaker, Jackie Reem Salloum -- who I used to know briefly back in Michigan -- will be show ... More >>

Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains: An Infomercial From the Left

I just got an email this morning filled with good news for those that are paying attention to the situation in Gaza right now and want to learn more. Except, naturally, there's a musical twist.Independent filmmaker, Jackie Reem Salloum -- who I used to know briefly back in Michigan -- will be show ... More >>

This Week's Attractions

Oscar nominated shorts, East German spies, and more.

Land of Plenty

Showing at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., Aug. 4–Thurs., Aug. 10. Not rated. 119 minutes.

Rachel Corrie's Legacy

"[Rachel Corrie] was used by pro-Palestinian groups in life and continues to be used by them in death, and now her parents are falling into the same trap."

Rachel Corrie's Legacy

The 23-year-old's 2003 death in Israel poses challenging questions—in court and out.

Private

Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., April 7– Thurs., April 13. Not rated. 90 minutes.

March 15-22, 2006

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

The Syrian Bride

Runs Fri., Feb. 3– Thurs., Feb. 9, at Varsity

Lies Per Gallon

The damning petro-thriller Syriana rambles like an SUV on a Sunday drive.

Weapons of Mass Distraction

How the military uses music and sound.

Rocking the Casbah

This ain't the Boston Tea Party: A guerrilla-warfare classic pulls no punches in its depiction of the Algerian uprising.

Culture Shocks

A dangerous world visits Seattle to market its love of American tourists.

De-Zionification

U.S. Jews rethink the state of Israel.

Seattle Human Rights Film Festival

Hard truth and soft rhetoric at a political film fest.

This Week's Reads

Marjorie Leet Ford, Raja Shehadeh, Jessica Shattuck, and Jonathan Schell.

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.

Fest-O-Rama

Jewish, African, and Irishhave We forgotten anyone?

"How dare Miller make fun of innocent children struggling to live through the daily humiliations and crimes of brutal Israeli occupation."

Jewish, African, and Irishhave We forgotten anyone?

Throwing Stones

Palestinian suffering is seen through a cracked lens.

All Over but the Shooting

A tragic turning point in Irish history is powerfully re-created.

Battleground

Platoon is torn by spiritual schisms.

Thinking nuclear war

Platoon is torn by spiritual schisms.

Promises: The Middle East's New Generation

Platoon is torn by spiritual schisms.

SIFF 2002 Films: A-J

Platoon is torn by spiritual schisms.

SIFF 2002 Films: R-Z

Platoon is torn by spiritual schisms.

Will he survive?

A hunger-striking Seattle activist lies near death in Israeli custody.

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

A hunger-striking Seattle activist lies near death in Israeli custody.

Update from the battlefields

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 >>

The front page

Terrible topicality distinguishes seventh annual Jewish film fest.

In Palestine's Eyes

Writings that side against Israel.

Terror in New York

An eyewitness account of the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Postmodern cowabunga

Seattle surfers embark on their own peculiar safari.