“‘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,…
“‘An imagined reality.’”
The scars of Zionism, Part 2. This is the second of two reports on the work of Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, who is an authority—and maybe the authority—on the West Bank environment and the environmental consequences of settler colonialism. Qumsiyeh is…
“Scars on the land.”
The environmental catastrophes of Zionist colonialism. Israeli tanks rolled on Sunday into jenin, the northernmost West Bank governorate, marking an escalation in the Zionist regime’s war of annexation against the West Bank. Mainstream media would have you believe this was…
“The crisis of our time.”
On my return from Palestine. I recently returned from the West Bank, where I spent six weeks traveling in the governorates of Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron. It was my second trip there this year—the first was in April and May….
“Kindergarten playground update.”
Cheerful news from the West Bank. Good news arrived at 6:05 (Pacific Time Zone) yesterday morning in a WhatsApp text from R., whose full name I cannot use. It was followed a few minutes later by a text from Kathem,…
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