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Hollywood celebrities are hiding their pro-Palestine stance in fear of being blacklisted. But now is the time to realise our power, to speak up and act.

Archiving and re-imagining Palestine helps ensure reality is not lost to memory. Palestine Museum US's new exhibition 'From Palestine: Our Past, Our Future' uses a myriad of methods to remind us how Palestine was stolen and how it can be returned.

For Palestinians in the diaspora, expressing one's 'Palestinian-ness' is fraught with difficulty. Faced with xenophobia, isolation and apathy, Tariq Raouf encourages Palestinians to be loud and proud in their day-to-day activism.

The film Farha has migrated to the popular production company Netflix and with it the watchful gaze of millions of users across the world. With Israeli authorities whipped into a frenzy at the film's success, is this a major win for Palestinians?

Book Club: Unjustly imprisoned at 16, Ahed Tamimi's experience in Israeli incarceration has informed her activism for the Palestinian cause. Now a major figurehead of the Palestinian struggle, Ahed and her co-writer reveal all in a searing memoir.

Mo Amer's infectious humour has been rewarded with an eight-part Netflix series, based on a semi-autobiographical account of the Palestinian-American comic's life. For Palestinians like Mo, the series is a triumph of representation and perseverance.

In celebration of Pride Month, we talk to queer Arabs and asked what it means to be queer in a community that’s already othered in this country because of their race, religion or ethnicity. 

Moon Knight's cultural significance continues to reverberate across the Arab world. In particular, Palestinian-Egyptian actress May Calamawy's role as Scarlet Scarab has given hope to the Palestinian diaspora and helped counter misrepresentation.

Due to reductive and harmful notions of identity, Palestinian-Americans have either had to hide their diasporic pride, or assimilate to survive. Yet, as we find out through the story of Tariq Raouf, many have now awoken to political engagement.