Word: nablus
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...recent municipal elections in major West Bank towns were swept by Hamas, largely as an expression of protest by traditional Fatah supporters against the corruption of the leadership-Nablus, for example, used to be a Fatah stronghold; Hamas won 11 of the 13 seats on its local council. We may see a similar phenomenon in parliamentary elections. I would break down the likely vote in this way: 5 percent of voters will go to the polls to express their support for the Popular Front, Democratic Front and other organizations of the Left; 20 percent of voters will...
...slogans has led to a desire for leaders who want merely to secure a better economic future. Artists similarly discontented with politics are turning to more personal themes. "The old period of nationalist art was a big lie," says Khalid Hijazi, a painting instructor at An-Najah University in Nablus who mentors many new artists. "The political picture in Palestine is confused, so artists take refuge in their personal concerns." The new style doesn't appeal to older artists. Karim Dabbah, a 68-year-old painter from Ramallah, argues that Palestinian political art "defended a noble idea. New artists...
...mechanic until he is chosen to undertake a suicide bombing, which he volunteered for long before. Said comes across not as a news-article composite but as a believable, mixed-up young man. In the U.S. he might have been the star of a coming-of-age story; in Nablus he ends up with a bomb taped to his chest...
Beyond the ideological dialogue, one of the most powerful aspects of the film is the striking depictions of the bleak geography of the West Bank: dusty olive groves; graffiti-streaked concrete walls; bustling markets; and oppressive barbed wire fences. The everyday life of residents of the city of Nablus is punctuated by the humiliation of checkpoints, reverberating calls to prayer, and the occasional sound of a bomb exploding. The film blatantly contrasts this oppressive landscape with the polished city of Tel Aviv, and the juxtaposition intentionally induces empathetic shock...
...Here the dissection of the phenomenon is a lot more intimate and painful. The first 20 minutes of the film suggests a mundane domestic drama and West Bank life looks crushingly dull. Two buddies, auto mechanics in their early 20s, kill time by drinking tea on a hillside above Nablus, gossiping about girls and whining about their boss. Dishes are washed, children are put to bed; there is not much else to do at night. Then one of the intifadeh's local leaders tells the friends that they've been chosen to blow themselves up the next...