Mashrou' Leila

Lebanese mega-band wins battle against Jordanian conservatives
Jordan scraps a ban on Mashrou’ Leila, a progressive and incredibly popular Lebanese band, following an international uproar Mashrou’ Leila, the immensely popular Lebanese will be allowed to perform in Jordan, the government announced after the cancellation of a concert scheduled for Friday sparked an enormous backlash. Jordan is one of the few places where…
By Haggai Matar May 2, 2016
Sinai beach. (photo: Orly Noy)
Why I took my family to Sinai for our Passover vacation
While Sinai used to be one of the most popular tourist destinations for Israeli Jews, today it is nearly abandoned. But neither the threat of Al-Qaida attacks, ISIS kidnappings or her friends’ pleading could stop Orly Noy from going back to her own private heaven. The bottom line is this: we went to Sinai for…
By Orly Noy April 11, 2015
The Israel-Palestine Lorde Diaries, Chapter 3: Two Islands
Between general despair and out of fear of offending the anti-normalization movement, the project moves on and Lorde makes an unlikely fan.  Read the previous chapters of The Israel-Palestine Lorde Diaries’ here. More than a week has passed and I haven’t heard from Hanin. I figured we need find another translator. Meanwhile, Jewish-Arab partnership in…
By Yuval Ben-Ami January 19, 2015
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