As usual, Gaza City's Shifa Hospital is in the center of the chaos.

In 2006, WIDE ANGLE visited Gaza's Shifa Hospital in the film Gaza E.R. Here's a preview.

Walls and checkpoints make it difficult for Palestinians to get to work, so Israel has become reliant on workers from Thailand, the Philippines, China, and Africa.

What does Obama's foreign policy mean for the rest of the world?

The main lesson to be drawn from the 2008 RSF report is that, “It is not economic prosperity but peace that guarantees press freedom."

Link to information on Gaza, international aid to Gaza, and films about the region.

Director, Olly Lambert, explains what it was like to shoot inside Shifa Hospital in the 'eye of this huge international storm,' the difficulties faced by Palestinians every day, and the culture shock one experiences when crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip is often described as the “world’s largest open-air prison” due to the virtual immobility of its population. The 1.4 million residents (three-quarters of them refugees and half under the age of 14) are surrounded by fences and walls to the north, east, and south, and have limited access to the Mediterranean Sea to the west.

From the moment I entered the small pickling plant, I fell in love with the women. Eight women between the ages of 40 and 50 -- all devout Muslims, all widows, who had never heard of the word "feminism" -- were creating a small revolution.

A timeline of the history of Lebanon in the 20th Century.

Since April 1994, seven months after the 1993 Oslo accords were signed, Palestinian terrorists have killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings.

The only consolation I have for myself as a Palestinian is that the majority of the Palestinians, I don't believe, share that particular ideology.

Essay outlining the history of modern suicide terrorism.