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Chana Morgenstern

Contributor

Chana Morgenstern

Chana Morgenstern is a writer, translator, and doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern, Palestinian, and Israeli resistance literatures. She is an assistant editor at differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies and holds an MFA in fiction from Bard College. Recent work of hers can be read in Shifter Magazine, Tantalum, Digital Artifact, and Encyclopedia.

Articles by Chana Morgenstern

Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine. An Interview with Raji Bathish

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

In her latest dispatch for our Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine series, Azareen Van der Vliet speaks to Raji Bathish, a Palestinian poet, novelist, screenplay writer and cultural activist born in Nazareth.…

Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine. An Interview with Almog Behar

By Chana Morgenstern

Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Morgenstern In this installment of “Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine,” Chana Morgenstern. speaks to Almog Behar, whose poem, Sheikh Jarrah, 2010″…

Artists Talk: Israel/Palestine: Politics and Art in Sheikh Jarrah

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

I.On Friday afternoons the streets of Jerusalem begin to empty out. Friday is a holy day of rest for both the Muslims and the Jews of Jerusalem, and as the Jewish Sabbath is about to begin, the Muslims’…

Cross-Cultural Dialogues: In Response

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

We’d like to respond to a recent online article which raised some concerns about the initial description of our project. First of all, as the moderators we would like to thank the Palestinian Campaign…

Maps

By Chana Morgenstern

A few years ago, in a seminar I took on contemporary Palestinian literature, the professor gave us a homework assignment to draw a map of Israel and Palestine. I remember finding it a bit comical,…

New Blog Series: Cross-Cultural Dialogues in the Middle East

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi & Chana Morgenstern

The two of us met during a particularly gritty winter in our first year of graduate school at Brown University. While Chana, an Israeli fiction writer, translator, and scholar, had just begun working…