Revue Mediterranneennes/Mediterreneans no'14, Haifa State of Mind,Souad Nasr Makhoul- " Quelques données de l’évolution urbaine"

Issue 14

HAÏFA

States of mind

INTRODUCTIONS

Bernard Biancarelli Méditerranéennes : d’Ajaccio via Haïfa

Kenneth Brown A sleeping Beauty

HAÏFA ÉTATS D’ESPRIT/STATES OF MIND

Mahmoud Darwish / Judith Lerner A dialogue / Un dialogue
Mahmoud Yazbak Haifa before the Nakba
Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888) The Temple colony of Haifa
May Seikaly Une politique de partition ethnique
Udi Adiv 1920s Haifa as seen by Bulus Farah
Bulus Farah Migration to Haifa
Zachary Lockman 1925 : organiser les travailleurs arabes
Deborah S. Bernstein Les grèves à Nesher
Adi Gordon Orient : Exile of the Last Europeans
Arnold Zweig A letter to Sigmund Freud
Abdullah Schleifer Izz al-Din al-Qassam : prêcheur et mujahid
Silvina Sosnovsky On the track of modernism
Sherene Seikaly Arab businessmen challenge the 1940s status quo
Tamir Goren Politique et autorité municipale à l’époque du Mandat britannique
Hillel Cohen Haïfa, symbole de la Nakba
Zachary Lockman Sombrer dans la folie
Ilan Pappe Urbicide in Haifa
Sari Hanafi Exodus and exile: people’s own stories
Emile Habibi L’embolie
Anton Shammas De l’écriture et de la boîte
Nicholas de Lange Memories of a Haifa childhood
Amina Semmoud Amos Gitai’s Wadi – a 20-year chronicle
Hanna Abu Hanna Faten Hamama et Caliban
Souad Nasr Makhoul Quelques données de l’évolution urbaine
Samih Al-Qasim The clock on the wall
Susan Rosenberg Haifa railway station
Ziva Kolodney & Rachel Kallus How to read Haifa’s cityscape
Yehudit Hendel Avram
Sami Michael The years have their seasons
Mamhoud Darwish Without exile, who am I?
Natan Zach Prologue to a poem
Avner Shats Travels on the Carmelit
Galia Aviani Ma communauté à Hadar
Salim Abu Jabal Elegy for Haifa in Colours
Avner Giladi ‘Abed ‘Abedi, artiste de Haïfa
Joseph Chetrit La musique andalouse de Tsfon-Macarav
Abbas Shiblak Haifa, Full in Our Eyes
Rolly Rosen Key dates in an urban autobiography
Sherene Seikaly Retour à Haïfa
Salman Natur Se souvenir de Haïfa, au bord d’un lac gelé
Elias Sanbar It’s you who sends these people
Yossi Ben Artzi Quelle Haïfa voulons-nous ?
Yuval Yonay Gaza war protests at Haifa University
Shanin Nassar Arabs and Jews against the Gaza invasion
Shlomo Avineri Herzl et le racisme
Shatil They have a dream: the Haifa Joint City Project


VARIA


Sampiero Sanguinetti Faire la guerre ou jeter des ponts
Matthew TreeLetter from Barcelona: Sant Jordi and the Big Read
Kamel Daoud Oran et ses quatre mers en étages
Pierre Lepidi Au Liban, des prisonniers «en colère» sont montés sur scène Stuart Schaar Miloud Labeid (1938-2008) : an extraordinary artist
Jean Leca Un éveilleur, Bruno Étienne (1937– 2009)
Nasrin Quader Remembering Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938 – 2009)

About Haifa
For years Haïfa has seemed to me an obvious subject for an issue of our review. It combines most things that make the endless nooks, crannies, islands and cities of the Mediterranean places of dreams and nightmares, some of the best and worst of what human beings have proven capable of. Their aspirations and fears. The specificity of Haïfa, of course, lies in its medley of Jews and Arabs of many sorts, Israeli citizens of different degrees. How do they live, together or apart, what have they to say for themselves and about one another, and about their city collectively or separately? Make no mistake about it, the Israeli Jews of Haïfa run the show, but the presence of the Palestinian Arab minority is increasingly apparent. We would like you to listen some of them, both to those who Mahmoud Darwish characterises as victors and victims. To their voices, without prejudice.

Kenneth Brown