“Winter blankets for refugee children.”
A brief appeal to our subscribers and readers. Amid the cold of another West Bank winter, the Development and Rehabilitation Association of New Askar refugee camp, also known as the Awdeh Center, has begun a “Warm Winter Campaign.” This is an…
“A New Year’s message from the West Bank.”
‘Love from the land of war and pain.’ A New Year’s greeting arrived this morning from a friend in New Askar refugee camp, in the West Bank governorate of Nablus. It’s a powerful message of hope, and I publish it…
“When a mountain falls.”
Stories from Ramla Prison Clinic. Listen, world, to what I want to tell you. By God, the pain and suffering carried by the sick prisoners in Ramla Prison Clinic: If you placed it on a mountain, that mountain would collapse….
“‘Why can’t I see white?’”
Writings from an Israeli prison ‘hospital.’ This is Part Two of a three-part series on Rateb al–Hribat and his writings while in Israeli prisons. Now in his mid-forties, Rateb spent twenty-two years in the Israeli gulag, where he wrote two…
“‘Raw reality’ in Palestine.”
In conversation with a former political prisoner. I learned about Rateb al–Hribat from my Arabic interpreter, a young woman named Sadeel. This was November of last year and we, Sadeel and I, were traveling in the West Bank as I…
“Drawing as resistance.”
It took Israel less than twenty-four hours to violate the current ceasefire in Gaza. As reported in The Cradle yesterday, 14 October, “the Jewish state” killed nine Palestinians by targeting civilians with a quadcopter and shelling neighborhoods. Anyone unknowingly crossing the “yellow line”…
“Settler madness.”
Sanity and psychosis in the West Bank. 11 SEPTEMBER—I recently delivered a talk at the annual Mut zur Ethik conference in Sirnach, Switzerland. Held each summer at the end of August for the past thirty-two years, Mut zur Ethik, which translates as “courage…
“‘Hungry in their souls.’”
I received an email from my friend Samia Khoury not long ago. In it she shared a letter written by a man in Gaza. This is the second such letter to arrive recently in my inbox—addressed to another and forwarded…
“Beyond the refugee camp.”
A funding appeal for a friend. 10 JULY—During my trips to the West Bank last year—made possible thanks to the generous donations of many readers of The Floutist and Winter Wheat—I traveled through the governorates of Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron and visited numerous…
“‘Our lives are worth nothing.’”
A letter from Occupied Palestine. In a dream,I saw myself flying a kite.And I was like the kite—free.But when I woke up to fly it,one of us wasn’t free.—Sabeel 3 APRIL—A text arrived from a friend two weeks ago today,…
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