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An Open Letter To The Israeli Student Association
*Hebrew below Gal is teaching at the Open University of Israel and his research focuses on issues of ethnicity, citizenship education,...
Jun 26, 20246 min read


How do you say McCarthyism in Hebrew?
Columbia? You Should Really Watch Israeli Universities As Israelis decry protests in American and European universities as antisemitic,...
Jun 5, 20242 min read


A Palestinian teacher was suspended for attending the annual March of Return
March of Return Challenges Status Quo Every year on May 15th, Palestinians around the world observe Nakba Day, mourning the catastrophe...
May 19, 20242 min read


What is the Jewish Mimouna?
Originating in Moroccan Jewish culture,The magic of Mimouna lies in its open doors and open hearts. On the night of Mimouna, homes across...
Apr 25, 20242 min read


Palestinian Prisoner Walid Daqqa Passes Away in Prison at 62
Remembering Walid Daqqa (RIP) Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian native of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, spent an astonishing 38 years incarcerated in an...
Apr 8, 20242 min read


Arabic Transliteration
TINAU's Arabic Transliteration System Learning Hebrew and Arabic with their original scripts, rather than relying on transliteration, is...
Apr 4, 20241 min read


Water for the Shepherds Fundraiser
Life for Palestinian shepherd communities in the West Bank is becoming increasingly untenable. Many Palestinians have been killed since...
Mar 28, 20241 min read


What's Going On in Sudan?
FROM A HEAD OF A MILITIA TO HEAD OF THE COUNTRY Twenty years ago, the people of Darfur rose against the oppression inflicted by Sudan's...
Mar 17, 20243 min read


Why was Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Suspended?
Todays’ Lesson - How To be Rhinos In 1959, Eugène Ionesco wrote the play “Rhinoceros”, about a small french town whose residents all turn...
Mar 14, 20242 min read


Solidarity and Hope in Wartime: A Letter from Nagham to the TINAU Community
Dear TINAU Community, In the midst of war's chaos and uncertainty, our unity and shared experiences become beacons of strength. As a...
Mar 14, 20242 min read


Noam Chomsky on Native Language
The notion of “standard language” is not a linguistic notion. Rather, it reflects structures of power and authority. -- Noam Chomsky,...
Feb 22, 20242 min read


Hebrew Transliteration
TINAU's Hebrew Transliteration System Learning Hebrew and Arabic with their original scripts, rather than relying on transliteration, is...
Feb 22, 20241 min read


Israel-based civil society and human rights organizations call for a ceasefire
We, the undersigned Israel-based civil society and human rights organizations, call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and...
Feb 14, 20243 min read


Why Do We Use the Geresh in Hebrew?
Hebrew Revival Struggles By the end of the 19th century, those working on the revival of the Hebrew language had a problem. There were...
Jan 16, 20243 min read


Hope as a Deliberate Choice
How can we even think of the future when we are engulfed by the horrors of the present? It’s almost impossible. In the terrible war of...
Nov 16, 20232 min read


A Letter to the TINAU Community
To the This is Not an Ulpan Community, Like many of you, I too am experiencing the difficult days in which we are faced with the horrors,...
Oct 27, 20233 min read


When Language Reveals Cracks in Society
A shopkeeper in a market wrote this sign noting the price of horns so commonly used in demonstrations these days across the country. It...
Apr 2, 20232 min read


How Did The Watermelon Become a Palestinian Symbol?
Red, black, white and green – the colors of the Palestinian flag… and of watermelons. The Watermelon as a Palestinian Symbol In occupied...
Mar 15, 20232 min read


Why do Palestinians Learn Hebrew?
During the background interviews I did for the "Hebrew Al-Quds" article of "Jerusalem State" in the fall of 2019, I spoke with a public...
Jan 24, 20234 min read


Eid Al-Banat
عيد البنات עיד אלבנאת During the years of exile, Jewish communities around the world would create unique traditions around the cycle of...
Dec 18, 20224 min read
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