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A puppet fills one seat in the empty El-Hakawati Theater on June 27, 2013 in East Jerusalem. The theater would have been filled with children and families, but the Israeli Public Security Ministry canceled the annual festival. (photo: Matt Surrusco, +972 Magazine)

El-Hakawati Theater – the complementary nature of stones and puppets

Israel shut down a Palestinian puppet theater festival last month, but ‘cultural and artistic organizations are those parts of the iceberg of Palestinian resistance that remain underwater. If discovered by the State, they vanish and appear elsewhere, in different form, like a phoenix, striving for a freedom that is prefiguratively victorious by its nature.’ By…

By +972 Magazine July 1, 2013

Protest at Al-Ma'asara, Friday, July 13, 2012 (photo: Quqiue Kierszenbaum (C))

‘You cannot arrest this clown!’ On a different way to fight occupation

Last week’s Friday protest in the West Bank village of al-Ma’asara, against the separation wall and the occupation, featured a group of special guests out to highlight the absurdity of all forms of repression. By Amitai Ben-Abba All guns are oversized, but this one seems especially large and it is pointing straight at me. I stroke…

By +972 Magazine July 15, 2012