El-Hakawati Theater

Israeli border policemen arrest Nariman Tamimi during the weekly protest against the Israeli occupation, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, June 28, 2013. Oren Ziv/ Actviestills.org
From Bedouin fighting eviction to artists protesting theater closure: A week in photos: June 27 – July 4
This week, Palestinian and Bedouin citizens of Israel protest against the ‘Prawer Plan‘ to displace tens of thousands, Palestinians protest the occupation in the West Bank, artists and activists demonstrate against the closure of a Palestinian children’s theater in East Jerusalem and Turks head back to the streets.  
By Activestills July 5, 2013
Ariel Doron, who plays Elmo on the Israeli version of Sesame Street, started a Facebook campaign to protest the Israeli government's cancellation of a Palestinian children's puppet festival. (Facebook)
‘Sesame Street’ puppeteers launch campaign for E. Jerusalem theater
Well-known children’s show actors launch puppet-themed protests against Israel’s cancelation of a Palestinian children’s festival at the Hakawati Theater in East Jerusalem. The creative protests over a cancelled Palestinian children’s festival continued online this week, as puppeteers from the Israeli version of “Sesame Street” opened a new Facebook page in protest. Ariel Doron, the voice…
By Matt Surrusco July 2, 2013
A puppet fills one seat in the empty El-Hakawati Theater on June 27, 2013 in East Jerusalem. The theater would have been filled with children and families, but the Israeli Public Security Ministry canceled the annual festival. (photo: Matt Surrusco, +972 Magazine)
El-Hakawati Theater – the complementary nature of stones and puppets
Israel shut down a Palestinian puppet theater festival last month, but ‘cultural and artistic organizations are those parts of the iceberg of Palestinian resistance that remain underwater. If discovered by the State, they vanish and appear elsewhere, in different form, like a phoenix, striving for a freedom that is prefiguratively victorious by its nature.’ By…
By +972 Magazine July 1, 2013
Latest
Most Read
  1. ‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction
  2. How Kahanism found its way into the Israeli political mainstream
  3. ‘Israel burned the ground under our feet’: Hundreds killed in intensified Gaza assault
  4. Why Israel's demand for Hamas to disarm is a red herring
  5. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  1. ‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction
  2. Why Israel's demand for Hamas to disarm is a red herring
  3. How Kahanism found its way into the Israeli political mainstream
  4. ‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege
  5. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. 'We've killed so many children — it's hard to argue with that'
  3. ‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege
  4. ‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction
  5. What a ‘peace summit’ reveals about the state of the Israeli left