Located in the heart of downtown Cairo, behind Magra Al-Oyoun – the aqueduct built during the reign of Saladin (1138-1193) to carry water from the Nile to the Citadel – were first established during the Khedival period in 1886.The Egyptian (...)
Randa Shaath shares her personal recollections of Abu Ammar
Glued to the TV screen, as are millions of others around the world, we are watching the funeral of President Yasser Arafat in Cairo and then in Ramallah. My two brothers are here, their (...)
Randa Shaath captures hot summer days and nights
The weather is relentlessly hot and humid. And though it is summertime, the living is certainly not easy. The city is expensive, and the influx of tourists, added to the already large population, (...)
Photography has accompanied the Palestinian people throughout their exile. Randa Shaath searches Lebanon for portraits of the past
I arrived in Tyr around noon. We drove along the old port and into the Christian quarter. The sun was very bright and (...)
During Israel's invasion of the West Bank "A Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region" proceeded unhindered in Beirut. Palestinian participant Randa Shaath noted the ironies of such an unfortunately timed cultural triumph
Supported by the Lebanese (...)
PAINTING OVER THE PAIN: For children wounded by Israeli fire, therapeutic art sessions at the Red Crescent's Al-Hilal hospital in Khan Younes reveal a persistent theme -- that of nationhood, deferred, frustrated, dreamt of and fought for. Recent (...)
