ETIHAD INFLIGHT MAGAZINE - From Famagusta to Vienna
January 02, 2012
This book tells the story of a young man called Geroge who left Cyprus to study medicine in Vienna. Enamoured by the music and committed to his profession, George has no intention of returning to...
THE MIDDLE EAST - History in the Arab Skies
January 01, 2012
Books in Brief. This month's publications selected from those showcased at the 2011 Sharjah Book Fair. The second book on a list of six selected books was HISTORY IN THE ARAB SKIES, by Gerald Butt...
JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES - Maintaining Legacy 'Threads of Identity'
December 01, 2011
Traditional Arabic or Palestinian arts have tended to prioritize poetry, with visual culture relegated to a supporting role. And yet, as Widad Kamel Kawar's book Threads of Identity demonstrates...
AUB MAIN GATE - Lovesong & My Father, Reflections
November 24, 2011
Book Reviews of both Afaf Zurayk's books, Lovesong and My Father, Refelections. Lovesong is a portfolio of watercolors and poetry dedicated to the memory of her mother Najla Zurayk. Forward...
THE JERUSALEM POST: Review of Anna's House
November 23, 2011
JERUSALEM'S AMERICAN Colony Hotel, the former local headquarters for Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair, for many years a favorite watering hole for foreign journalists, spies and peace...
عودة رئيس الوزراء الليبي في العهد الملكي بن حليم متفائل بمستقبل ليبيا AL JEZEERA
November 19, 2011
خالد المهير-بنغازي قال رئيس وزراء ليبيا في العهد الملكي (1954-1957...
GULF TODAY - Flight to progress
November 18, 2011
The citizens of the world take air travel for granted. Businessmen and women, families, school and university pupils, tourists, shoppers attending festivals take to the air as a matter of routine...
CYPRUS WEEKLY - Taking to the skies
November 18, 2011
Book by British journalist takes a look at aviation history in Middle East. Cyprus had served as an escape for people working in Iraq and the Gulf as early as 1832, a newly published book shows...
REAL TRAVEL ADVENTURES - Book Review of Threads of Identity
November 01, 2011
Threads of Identity by Widad Kamel Kawar is a most fascinating compendium of the heritage of Palestine through costumes and fabrics. The author is one of the foremost authorities on the subject and...
WASHINGTON REPORT - Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution
November 01, 2011
With roots thousands of years old, Palestinian costume is a rich tradition that evolved over time to form through color and pattern a visual language revealing the wearer's heritage, ancestry, and...
HAARETZ - The 'Queen of Palestine'
September 09, 2011
A 'non-meeting' in the Jordanian capital with the woman who owns and knows more about Palestinian dresses than anybody else, but is convinced there is no one left that even cares about them. AMMAN...
MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL - Jerusalemites A Living Memory
August 01, 2011
Love for Jerusalem and devotion to the cause of justice and the human rights of the Palestinians are dominant features of this autobiography written by a distinguished man born in the Holy City...
THE JORDAN TIMES - Memories of the American Colony
July 28, 2011
The American Colony, now East Jerusalem's most luxurious and expensive hotel, has a long, conflicted history that illuminates what has happened in Palestine over the past 130 years. Whenever I go to...
TIMEOUT BEIRUT - Book Review of Threads of Identity
July 25, 2011
There’s something just so wonderful about ‘Threads of Identity’ – an intelligent, visually delicious compendium of women’s traditional costumes and life stories that have...
INQUISITOR MEDIARAMA - Palestinian Embroidery Motifs
June 30, 2011
Last year when we were working on the posters for Israeli Apartheid Week: Beirut we were researching symbolic references to Palestine, and came across this amazing book. Covering all the villages of...
THE IRISH TIMES - An Irishman's Diary
May 24, 2011
As evening shadows were beginning to lengthen over the British empire towards the middle of the last century, Egypt continued to bask in imperial sunshine. While never formally a colony itself...
THE JORDAN MUSEUM - Book Acknowledgement of Threads of Identity
May 01, 2011
Mrs. Widad Kamel Kawar is a member on the Board of Trustees of the Jordan Museum. Her continuous efforts and support towards the Museum are extremely valued and appreciated. We would like to sincerely...
THE JERUSAELM FUND - Book Review of Threads of Identity
April 12, 2011
One of the leading authorities on Palestinian costume, Widad Kamel Kawar takes a unique approach to the topic in her latest book, Threads of Identity. While this handsomely-illustrated, 449-page...
SAUDI ARAMCO WORLD - Life at the Crossroads
March 15, 2011
This is a comprehensive yet concise chronicle of Gaza's history from ancient times to the end of the 2008-2009 Israeli war against the territory's Hamas-led administration. The author, a former BBC...
SAUDI ARAMCO WORLD - Book Review of Threads of Identity
March 01, 2011
This very beautiful book about costume and textile is quite different from most works on the subject, as the cover suggests, with its picture of a tasseled fringe and a series of photographs of women...
LIBRARY BOOKWACTH - Reviewer's Choice: Threads of Identity
March 01, 2011
Threads of Identity: Preserving Palestinian Costume and Heritage is the culmination of years of research and documentation of Arab costumes, textiles, and artifacts that impact Palestinian women's...
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Women in the Orient
February 11, 2011
PARIS — The vivid neon lights act like beacons, leading past ancient artifacts carved out of wood and stone, toward an explosion of vivid color on elaborate robes. The triangular lines of...
REVIEW BY CHIVVIS MOORE - Threads of Identity
February 01, 2011
In this spectacular volume Widad Kamel Kawar has created a work of art -- through photography, narrative and oral history -- as valuable as the women's legacy she describes. Stunning colour...
CYPRUS MAIL - Playing with words
January 09, 2011
It's Cyprus in the 1920s and a young man travels from his small town home in Famagusta to study medicine in Vienna. Dazzled by the opulent culture of the big city, George falls in love with an older...
AL GHAD - Threads of Identity Book Launch in Amman
December 11, 2010
Review in Al-Ghad newspaper in Arabic...
THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE Book of the Month - Threads of Identity
December 01, 2010
A small country like Palestine has a great variety of traditional costumes, and it took me a long time to publish the material I have collected on them because I wanted my research to be as complete...
CYPRUS MAIL - Paradise Found - Olives & Lemons
November 21, 2010
Shirley Kay is full of passion for life. But that's not what makes her unique. Personal passion is something we all possess in one way or another; Shirley, however, likes to take things a step...
THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA - Gaza’s Ancient Treasures Threatened
October 27, 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical treasure house. Many of those treasures...
PISSOURI CONTACT - A Must-Have Book, Olives & Lemons
October 23, 2010
A must-have book for residents and visitors. Author Shirley Kay lives in a sympathetically restored old house in Anogyra; as the massive front door opens from the street, the view reveals the...
CYPRUS GOURMET - Book Review of Olives & Lemons
October 18, 2010
This is the sort of book visitors who have more than the sun-sea-sand-and-sex interest in Cyprus buy to take home, and one that we residents always have on the bedside cabinets of our guest...
GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE - Book Review of Olives & Lemons
October 15, 2010
Why do we sometimes see a pair if horns hanging above a gateway, a wax offering of a body part in lonely little-used churches, what do old nylon stockings have to do with anari cheese, and why are the...
SUNJET MAGAZINE - Book Review of Olives & Lemons
October 01, 2010
For more than two decades, Shirley Kay has been either visiting or living in the Cypriot village of Anogyra. Over the years she has accumulated a vast amount of knowledge on the rural lifestyle...
GLOBAL DIALOGUE - Book Review of Life at the Crossroads
April 02, 2010
A Long Experience of War': Gaza in Historical Perspective Before Israel’s blitz on the Gaza Strip in late-2008/early-2009, one might have found individuals around the world who either had...
THE JORDAN TIMES - "A Feast for the Eyes" Book Review of Threads of Identity
January 03, 2010
A rainbow of colour, a wealth of information, centuries of traditions and skill, but above all, a precious point of reference for any serious ethnologist or historian - all in one book, product of...
THE JORDAND TIMES - Bittersweet Memories: To Palestine with Love...
October 19, 2009
Palestinian writer Najwa Kawar Farah has lived in four cities of Palestine - Nazareth, Haifa, Jerusalem and Ramallah - and in three other countries - Lebanon, the UK and Canada. Each of these places...
EMBROIDERY DESIGNS GUIDE - Palestinian Emboridery Motifs, Do They Reveal The Origin?
September 26, 2009
So let's begin with: What is a motif? A motif is basically a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration. It could also mean a theme that is repeated...
SUNDAY MAIL - Where the Average Age is 17, 'Life at the Crossroads'
July 26, 2009
The Gaza Strip could so easily have been seen here, had it not been for one simple difference between Cyprus and Palestine: nobody other than Turkey gave them the right to invade Cyprus. Israel...
THE JORDAN TIMES - A Life of Public Service - Jerusalemites
July 20, 2009
True to its title, Hazem Nusseibeh's book starts and ends with Jerusalem, the author's birthplace and enduring focus, but in between, "Jerusalemites: A Living Memory" is chiefly a political memoir. It...
CYPRUS WEEKLY - The Flying Journalist - Life at the Crossroads
July 09, 2009
Middle East correspondent Gerald Butt says he has lost the appetite for covering wars, but certainly not for flying small planes. "When you are flying you are literally off the ground and you have...
THE MIDDLE EAST - Life at the Crossroads
July 01, 2009
The latest Israeli war on the Gaza strip, which ended in mid-january this year, was but the latest onslaught on the Territory and its inhabitants in a series stretching back over the course of three...
AL QUSD AL ARABI - Life at the Crossroads
May 25, 2009
All the invaders who set up camp in the city or on its borders left their mark, before moving on. But what the invaders left in the psyche of the people of Gaza was a hatred of occupation. Centuries...
ADDUSTOUR - Jerusalemites: A Living Memory
May 20, 2009
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AL GHAD - Jerusalemites Book Signing
May 20, 2009
The Jordanian daily al-Ghad on 20 May reported that Al-Bustan Book Store in Amman on 19 May hosted a signing session for Dr Hazem Nusseibeh. The paper carried a photograph of Dr Nusseibeh signing...
AL RAI Newspaper - Jerusalemites
May 17, 2009
This article was published on Sunday 17 May, 2009 in Al Rai newspaper in Arabic. Please click on image to download.
AL QUSD AL ARABI - Jerusalemites A Living Memory
May 11, 2009
This article was published in AL QUSD AL ARABIVolume 21 - Issue 6199 - May 11, 2009 - Page 10 in Arabic. Please click on image to download.
GCS Newspaper - Life as a Palestinian
May 01, 2009
Ms Nora Shawwa came to talk to us this term about life as a Palestinian, a life full of hardships that most of us would have never imagined. Palestinians could be described as a nation of refugees...
GULF TODAY - PANORAMA- Reviews of Life at the Crossroads & Jerusalemites
March 20, 2009
Two books on Palestine published this month by Rimal Publications, based in Nicosia, , are on display at the Abu Dhabi book fair which opened on Tuesday March 17th and closes on Sunday 22nd. The...
THE NATIONAL - Author Issues Grim Warning on Gaza
March 16, 2009
NICOSIA - As grieving Gazans rebuild their shattered lives in the aftermath of 's recent onslaught, they can take cold comfort from their remarkably rich and turbulent history. They are among the...
OPEN DOORS - The Christians of Gaza
January 04, 2009
A little known fact is the presence of a small but significant Christian Palestinian presence in Gaza. Gerald Butt wrote about them in Life at the Crossroads: History of Gaza. Carl Moeller of Open...
FINANCIAL MIRROR - Glafkos Clerides: The Path of a Country
December 10, 2008
Niyazi Kizilyurek was born in the mixed village of Potamia near Nicosia and became a refugee when his family moved to the Turkish Cypriot ghetto Louroujina where he lived until 1974. He studied social...
WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS - Palestinian Embroidery Motifs
April 01, 2008
Besides the historical perspective and identification of motifs by region and village, the book is a most attractive coffee table addition. Margarita Skinner of Switzerland, who over a period of...
QANTARA - Dresses That Tell Stories
March 10, 2008
Judging by the patterns of the embroidery on a dress, one can determine where someone comes from - almost each Palestinian town has its own unique pattern. Now a newly published book is tracing the...
LIVING WELL MAGAZINE - A Treasury of Stitches
December 03, 2007
"To the Palestinian women of the past and present whose needles magically create A Treasury of Stitches" A Treasury of Stitches is a wonderful memoir that unites motifs created through a period of...
HAARETZ - A Stitch in Time
November 23, 2007
In her book on Palestinian embroidery, an art she decribes as a 'pharmacy of the soul,' Margarita Skinner shows how certain patterns are inextricably linked to specific geographical areas. From...
THE JORDAN TIMES - The Art of the Needle
September 05, 2007
The title of this book is an accurate description of its contents, but it hardly prepares the reader for the sheer beauty to be found within its pages. Of course, traditional Palestinian...
GULF TODAY - Motifs of Distinction
August 31, 2007
The beautiful embroidery traditional Palestinian thobe remains the most potent symbol of this occupied and dispersed nation. The checked kuffiyah worn by liberation leader Yasser Arafat is worn by...
THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE - Life at the Crossroads
April 04, 2005
It is perhaps a very appropriate year to re-read Gerald Butt's 1995 Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza. The many milestones of this 360 sq. km strip of land and particularly the long and rich...
SUNJET MAGAZINE - Tolou and the Cats of Paphos
March 04, 2002
'So famous was she now for her acts of healing that her name was known Southwards throughout the Akamas peninsula and Northwards as far as Limassol. Over the years she had received many visitors...
THE GUARDIAN - The Secret City
February 03, 2001
Despite frequent references in the Psalms to "the peace of Jerusalem", the Holy City has probably seen more rapine and pillage than any other comparable patch of ground on the planet. Art historians...
SUNDAY STAR TIMES - Cyprus – An Island Apart
December 22, 2000
'...this book fits nicely next to Laurence Durrell's Bitter Lemons and Colin Thornton's Journey into Cyprus.' On the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus , live about one hundred ex patriot Kiwis...
SUNJET MAGAZINE - Cyprus An Island Apart
October 08, 1999
Cyprus proved once more to be an inspirational island as the new books celebrate its history, people and beauty. Cyprus an island apart by Seamus MacHugh is a personal account of the country and its...
HERMES MAGAZINE - The Cyprus Connection
May 10, 1999
'A mixture of history, culture and personal experience told in a lighter vein.' This is truly a wonderful addition to the enormous number of works about the island. Subtitled 'a personal experience...
CYPRUS WEEKLY - A Book Apart
April 23, 1999
'This is one of the most enjoyable books on Cyprus to appear in a very long time...' This book was written, at least partly, in response to a review in the Cyprus Weekly (March 1995) of a...
CYPRUS WEEKLY - Phoenician Legends
June 05, 1998
Those of you who have already visited the Italian Embassy's exhibition at the Cyprus Museum on 'Along The Road Of The Phoenicians' and would like to know more about the Phoenician civilization might...
THE DAILY STAR - 'Bringing Local Legends to Life: Redefining Our Identity'
April 06, 1998
Bringing local legends to life as a way of redefining our identity. There may be more than just myth to the Phoenician and Canaanite gods and goddesses, according to author Wafa Stephan Tarnowski...
THE DAILY STAR - Bringing Local Legends to Life
April 06, 1998
'Her style is simple but eloquent and can be read by both children and adults. Working on simplified stories of legends, Tarnowski garnishes them with vivid imagery and colourful illustrations...
MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL - Book Review of Life at the Crossroads
February 09, 1998
Gerals Butt has written a lively, intelligent and highly readable history of Gaza , about which precious little exists, especially in English. This work treats Gaza not as a violent, poor and unwanted...
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE - Book Review of Life at the Crossroads
February 24, 1997
Since January, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of and the Palestinian Authority president, Yasser Arafat, sealed the long awaited agreement to redeploy Israeli troops in Hebron and for...
THE NEW YORK TIMES - BOOKS: LIFE AT THE CROSSROADS A History of Gaza
February 24, 1997
SINCE January, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian Authority president, Yasser Arafat, sealed the long awaited agreement to redeploy Israeli troops in Hebron and for...
MIDDLE EAST COUNCIL OF CHURCHES - Book Review of Life at the Crossroads
January 08, 1997
The Gaza Strip. The phrase conjures up scenes of over-population, turmoil, political unrest, tear gas canisters, Israeli soldiers, crowds of rock-throwing and chafiyyeh-clad youths. But what lies...
JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES - Old History - Life at the Crossroads
September 06, 1996
Gerald Butt is well-known as having been a BBC correspondent in Beirut and Jerusalem throughout much of the 1980's. He provided firm journalistic coverage of the turbulent early years of the...
THE CHURCH TIMES - A Prize for the Invaders: The Torment of Gaza
May 17, 1996
This is a clever title for a history of Gaza . The Gaza Strip lies geographically on the crossroads between the Near East and North Africa - a land bridge over which peoples and armies must cross to...
MIDDLE EAST INTERNATIONAL - Deluged by History: Life at the Crossroads
March 01, 1996
In this, the first comprehensive history of Gaza , Gerald Butt describes the rise and fall in the fortunes of this narrow strip of coast which, for over four millennia, has been a meeting place of...
THE DAILY STAR - The Crossroads Over and Over Again
February 02, 1996
Rarely does one find a book so descriptive and precise as Life at the Crossroads. The book tells the story of the city of Gaza and its surrounding towns from about 3300 BC till 1994, in short...
TANMIYA - Book Review of Life at the Crossroads
September 05, 1995
The Gaza Strip is a name familiar to millions outside the Middle East. It is also a name synonymous with an image of political turmoil, poverty hatred and violence. This book's highly informative...
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