What Did Israel Do With Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Books Published Before 1948?
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In Israel, some people need to smuggle books in order to read them: A new documentary chronicles the difficulty of obtaining Arabic literature through the eyes of Jaffa bookstore owners. Plus, Israeli Instagram stories are given new life as short films at DocAvivShare in TwitterShare in WhatsAppGift this article
One of the most interesting films to be screened at this year’s DocAviv, Israel’s largest documentary film festival, touches on a hot topic in Israel these days: Arabic-language bookstores. The brilliant documentary “Al-Muharibeen” (“The Smugglers”) starts
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
