Voices Of The Middle East And North Africa

Hanin Zoabi is Palestinian a member of the Israeli Kenesset (parliament). She is known for her vocal criticism of Israel and its policies against Palestinians. In 2010, Zoabi participated in the Gaza flotilla. Zoabi was arrested and held by Israeli authorities and faced an aggressive wave of attacks for her participation in the Flotilla. Israeli politicians called for her disqualification from her role as an MP and for stripping her Israeli citizenship and she received death threats. None of that deterred her from her activism and continuing to challenge the Israeli political establishment. Vomena’s Mira Nabulsi sat down with Hanian Zoabi, and spoke with her about what it means to be be a Palestinian in the Israeli kenesset as well as the ongoing occupation of Palestine and the Israeli political culture that normalizes it. A Palestinian actor learns there’s more to English girls than pure sex appeal. A Pakistani-born terror suspect figures out what’s wrong with his first novel. A British youth suspects