An award-winning Palestinian author, Yousef Khanfar has published three books, is featured globally in many publications, and is listed as one of the world’s top photographers. He has received appreciation from the White House, US Supreme Court, the UK’s House of Lords, and beyond. The Fulbright Center for Peace in Washington, DC, selected his book to help celebrate the Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations. He was selected as Artist of the Year to promote literacy with UNICEF, and the Palestine mission to the United Nations honored him for “appreciation of his extraordinary service to promoting peace and justice in Palestine through art.”
We created the Palestinian Kufiyah to be your
symbol of elegance and flames of resistance.
We centered it with Net of the Sea,
To remind you of staying one united, strong nation....
When we asked Yousef Khanfar, executive editor of the “Palestine Voices” special issue, to come up with a list of essential titles about Palestine, he shared with us the following curation of thi...
Dana Barqawi, Woman Digging Thorns out of Field / Courtesy of the Artist
In the following voyage of self-discovery and reflection on humanity—excerpted from a forthcoming book—the...
Nabil Anani / Courtesy of the Artist
It has been said, Wisdom descended into the hands of the Chinese, the brains of the Greeks, and the tongue of the Arabs.
Palestinian writers, poet...
Photo by James L.W / Unsplash
In January, Full Circle Bookstore was named one of five finalists for Publishers Weekly’s Bookstore of the Year. Palestinian photog...
When we asked Yousef Khanfar, guest editor of our March 2013 issue, to come up with a list of his favorite photography books, he sent us the following list of thirty-two essential titles. These ar...
The essence of photography is writing with light. It is the visual language that we use daily and increasingly communicate with. Millions of photographs appear everyday in newspapers, magazines, books...