2,500 miles from home, Gazan culture takes center stage

For four days in late August, Portobello Town Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, was fully decked out in Palestine paraphernalia. Flags adorned lampposts and post boxes, and a massive banner stretching across the neoclassical façade proclaimed: “Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine.” 

This festival within a festival — forming part of the month-long Edinburgh Festival Fringe — showcased Palestinian culture through a line-up of visual artists, writers, thinkers,…