Column: Midthought
Midthought confronts complicated conceptions of identity, politics, and nationality, aiming to break free from propaganda, rhetoric, preconceived notions, and identity issues. The authors of Midthought firmly believes that it is important to approach these sensitive notions from a place of open-mindedness rather than hard-headedness.
Party Like It’s Saudi
Sure, on the surface, it is visually enrapturing and musically infectious. It also has deeper layers: it hints at another side to the Middle East, beyond our stereotypical, media-fed images of women in burqas who aren’t allowed to drive.
Photo Essay: Ordinary Lives in Jordan, Israel and Palestine
In a Middle East overwhelmed by war, politics, destruction, and conflict, it is easy to forget that it is, like any other, just a place where life goes on; people live,...
Photo essay: The Power of Water
So much of the Middle East’s regional identity, at least as an outsider, seems to be crafted or defined by the lack of water in its vast deserts. In media, pop culture, and history lessons, we hear far more about the significance...
One Small Step Forward for the Naqab Bedouin
The issue of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab desert of Israel is one that dates back to Ottoman times. Recent developments have pushed the situation to the brink, with the Israeli government’s...
A National Ad Campaign
A couple weeks ago, the Israeli Ministry of the Interior released a series of advertisements and billboards in American communities with large Israeli ex-pat populations. The ads touted taglines that included, “You will always be Israeli, but your...
I got prooved.
“Hi, this is Karen from the Jewish Agency. I just want to let you know that we have your Proof of Jewishness.The grammar and semantics of identity: What was it like, living among the Arabs, as a Jew?
I am Jewish and identify as such, but wouldn't normally identify as "a Jew." My visceral reaction to it is that it recalls the semantics of anti-Semitism and racism, so it is particularly uncomfortable.An introduction to Midthought
In the summer of 2010, four young American women found themselves in Haifa, Israel, interning at local NGOs and absorbing their new surroundings.Our experiences with the Middle East until then were varied; Linda grew up in California with Palestinian and Jordanian parents. Shiri is from Seattle, and her parents are Jewish and Israeli. Audrey and Ariel are East Coast born-and-raised with relatively conventional American secular Jewish...Advertisment
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Image Of The Week: A Palestinian protestor holds a banner and a photo of a relative
Demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails outside the Massiyahu Prison in Ramle, near Tel Aviv, May 3. Israel has so far rejected all appeals lodged by the hunger strikers.
