Tarwida

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• Makdisi Street x Tarwida Podcast: "They carried a memory in their head" | Dr. Salman Abu Sitta 25.05.2026 1u 30min

  Dr. Salman Abu Sitta — founder of the Palestine Land Society and the American University of Beirut's Palestinian Land Studies Center — survived the Nakba and spent 75 years documenting, village by village, the land Palestinians were expelled from. In this conversation with the Makdisi Street Podcast, he discusses oral history, the feasibility of return, Resolution 194, and why 88% of destroyed Palestinian village sites remain vacant. He is among the most important living voices on Palestinian cartography and the right of return.
• Filmmaking, Looted Museums, and Palestinian Art as Resistance | Amer Shomali (Replay) 11.05.2026 1u 4min

  Multidisciplinary artist and Palestinian Museum director Amer Shomali joins Tarwida to trace his journey from a refugee camp to leading Palestine's most important cultural institution — and what art, archives, and memory do in the face of genocide.
• How a Palestinian Prisoner Won the Booker Prize | Bassem Khandaqji (Arabic Episode) 27.04.2026 1u 15min

  Bassem Khandaqji spent 21 years in Israeli prisons, winning the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for "A Mask the Colour of the Sky" while still behind bars. Now in exile, the Palestinian novelist speaks to Tarwida Podcast about writing secretly at 4am, smuggling manuscripts out of detention, and how imagination helped him survive and resist. He also introduces Adab al-Ishtibak — Literature of Engagement — and previews his next novel about late fellow prisoner Walid Daqqa.
• The Language of Tatreez: How Palestinian Embroidery Became a Symbol of Identity and Artistic Narrative | Joanna Barakat 13.04.2026 55min

  Explore the history and cultural significance of Palestinian Tatreez in this interview with artist and author Joanna Barakat, focusing on the evolution of embroidery from a village craft to a global symbol of national identity. Learn about the impact of the Nakba on traditional thob construction, the role of 20th-century artists in preserving indigenous heritage, and the modern transition of Palestinian embroidery into contemporary art and fashion.
• The Gaza Kitchen: Food, Resistance, and Reclaiming Narrative | Laila El-Haddad 30.03.2026 1u 11min

  Critically acclaimed author, journalist, and activist Laila El-Haddad speaks about Gaza’s culinary heritage and how food traditions preserve dignity, agency, and community under siege, famine, and genocide. El-Haddad discusses her ethnographic work on The Gaza Kitchen, the loss of family members including her aunt, Um Hani, her collaboration with Anthony Bourdain, her lawsuit against the Biden administration, and why recipes and foraging knowledge have become tools of survival and resistance.
• Zaghareed, Hakawati and Palestinian Storytelling | Sally Shalabi 16.03.2026 49min
• Women Artists in Times of War | Lilies of Gaza (Arabic Episode) 02.03.2026 54min
• Food is Political | Fadi Kattan (Replay) 16.02.2026 54min
• Palestinian Stand Up Comedy | Alaa Abu Diab (Arabic Episode) 02.02.2026 36min
• The Voice of Hind Rajab | Kaouther Ben Hania (Arabic Episode) 18.01.2026 46min
• From Nakba to Now: Palestinian Memory, Cinema, and Resistance | Cherien Dabis 05.01.2026 39min
• Palestinian Tatreez: How Embroidery has become a Language of Art and Resistance | SILA 22.12.2025 56min
• Palestinian Music, Jazz and Tarab Explained | Nai Barghouti 08.12.2025 54min
• Palestine36 | Annemarie Jacir 24.11.2025 1u 9min
• What it Means to Lose a Home | Suad Amiry 10.11.2025 59min
• Of Oud, Sound and Silence | Le Trio Joubran (Arabic Episode) 27.10.2025 1u 4min
• Palestine on a Plate | Joudie Kalla 13.10.2025 1u 3min
• Swimming for Palestine I Valerie Tarazi 29.09.2025 43min
• The Brush that Carried a Homeland - Sliman Mansour (Arabic Episode) 15.09.2025 50min
• Chasing Freedom | Yalla Parkour (Arabic Episode) 01.09.2025 1u 6min