Yousef M. Aljamal

Yousef M. Aljamal is a researcher in Middle Eastern Studies and the author and translator of a number of books. He is a co-author of A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers published by An Fhuiseog (July 2021).

Humor under Israeli Occupation and Traumatized Jokes

Read how Palestinians seek refuge in humor to release their stress and bring joy to…

Solidarity with Palestine in Stadiums: When Sports and Politics Conjoin

Chants of solidarity show that sports can’t be separated from politics and losing a game…

“We Have a Pro-Palestinian Lobby in Latin America” – Interview with Simán Khoury

When Arabs arrived in Central and South America, they had nothing but the clothes they…

Israel’s Mass Surveillance of Palestinians Is More Than an Obsession

Israel monitors the Gaza Strip through unlimited numbers of cameras planted on the wall it…

Olive Harvest in Palestine: Could Oil Become Tears?

It would not be an exaggeration to say that olive trees are like children to…

Israel’s No-State Solution in Palestine: How Should the Palestinians Respond?

A one-state reality in Palestine, completely free of apartheid, is the only way out.

Family Unification Law: How an Israeli Law Divides Palestinian Families

The Israeli Unification Law aims to divide Palestinians and reduce their numbers in historic Palestine…

“I Escaped Israel’s Prisons Three Times” – An Interview with Hamza Younis

Long story short, we fought them with our fists. The jailers called for help from…

Liberation Legitimacy: How Far Does It Count?

It does not matter if a group won the country’s independence through arms or through…

Adding Fuel to Fire: The Politics of Power Outages in Gaza

The continuing electricity crisis in Gaza means that it is only a matter of time…

The Morality of Violence in Settler-Colonial Contexts: From Algeria to Palestine

Settler-colonialism is violent in nature. Violence creates a vicious cycle and the way to end…

Watching Their Land Shrinking and Their Freedoms Restricted, Palestinians Take Initiative

Young Palestinians firmly believe that the only way out is to take things into their…

What Travel Restrictions Reveal about Palestinian Life under Israeli Occupation

My uncle passed away in 2015 in the West Bank and my mother was given…

73 Years Later: The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba Shadowed by Apartheid

Palestinians have been experiencing apartheid for the last 73 years and the world finally started…

Sheikh Jarrah: A Third Palestinian Intifada Is Now a Stone’s Throw Away

Israel might have the power now to suppress the Palestinians, shoot them in the eye,…

Liberation Theology and Politics: From Latin America to the Middle East

The Catholic Church has given a different meaning to its involvement in public life in…

Palestinian Political Prisoners: Untold Stories and Palestinian Politics

Israa al-Jabis, 34, a Palestinian mother who is sentenced to 11 years in Israeli jails,…

Amílcar Cabral: On Taking Arms, Theory, Poetry, and African Liberation

Despite his short life, Cabral left a remarkable impact on African liberation.

On Land Day in Palestine: Our Home is our Land

My great-grandfather sacrificed his life for land in Palestine of which he owned a very…

Seeing Ramallah from above: In Memory of Mourid Barghouti, Legendary Palestinian Poet and Novelist

Barghouti was among the few Palestinians who understood the wrath of having a state under…