Adri Nieuwhof

Four months after her release from an Israeli prison, Palestinian poet and photographer Dareen Tatour received the Oxfam Novib PEN Award for Freedom of Expression in The Hague in January.

Visual artist Van Thanh Rudd created a stir in Melbourne with his installation “Economy of Movement — A Piece of Palestine”. Rudd was invited to exhibit at an art space called the Platform, in the group show Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance. The Platform is situated directly beneath Melbourne’s Flinders Street train station.