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PHILADELPHIA – January 19, 2023 – Below are the ten most frequently viewed MEForum.org articles of 2023 in ascending order. Traffic to the original sites of publication, where applicable, is not counted. The selections reflect heightened reader concerns
EXAMINING THE ETYMOLOGY of forager reveals that the word has evolved to convey starkly distinct meanings. It appears in fifteenth-century English to describe someone who roves in search of sustenance; a century earlier, the Old French foragier referred to a plunderer. This slippage befits Foragers, 2022, Jumana Manna’s most recent film and the centerpiece of “Break, Take, Erase, Tally,” the Berlin-based Palestinian artist’s current midcareer survey, curated by Ruba Kartrib, at MoMA PS1 in New York. With a runtime of just over an hour, Manna’s work follows Arabs who wander fields picking herbs,
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine. By Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 344 pp. $90 ($28, paper). Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial. By Saree Makdisi. Berkeley: