Organizers of the Made in Palestine exhibit announced today that the New York show will be extended until May 27th, after seeing 3,364 visitors pass through the Chelsea exhibit, in the heart of New York’s art world, during the first three weeks. nigelparry.net undertook publicity for the exhibit, which has seen coverage in the New York Times, Brooklyn Rail and Reuters Television.

In 1995, Nigel Parry began writing an online journal from Ramallah. “A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, which has since been read by more than 1 million people, and Parry has been involved in creating war-related alternative media content ever since. “On the Ground in Ramallah,” which Parry launched with colleagues in 1996, was the first alternative media website published from within a warzone (occupied Palestine).

Two Electronic Intifada co-founders, Ali Abunimah and Nigel Parry, were at the 20th National Convention of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee—think “NAACP for Arabs”—in Washington DC on 14 June 2003 to accept the ADC’s Voices of Peace Award on behalf of the founders of EI and sister site Electronic Iraq. The award was presented to EI and eIraq “in recognition of its commitment to bringing the concerns, voices, and experiences of the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples to audiences the world over via the Internet.”