Al Manara, the famous square in Ramallah with the circle of lions sculpted in the center, is bustling with chaotic traffic, shoppers, drenching heat, and… Read More »June 28, 2014 Tell Them You’re Italian! Part three
The bus station in Bani Nayim is hot, humid, and thick with exhaust fumes from idling vehicles that have seen better days in the seat… Read More »June 28, 2014 In the Container part two
I have been thinking a lot about collective punishment and military force and the cost of fear. I am not going to reveal the identity… Read More »June 28, 2014 Who is the Terrorist? Part one
As a physician, I am always impressed by the combination of intelligence, dedication, weariness, and fortitude that characterizes so many Palestinians working in the field… Read More »June 26, 2014 Speak Truth to Power and Choose Joyfulness part three
I have been thinking a lot about torture lately, given the three murdered Israeli settlers and the most likely revenge killing of a Palestinian teen… Read More »June 26, 2014 The Darkest Aspects of Human Experience part two
The newly built Ministry of Health Palestine Medical Complex is filled with all the expected contradictions of building a health care system under occupation in… Read More »June 26, 2014 First/Third World Medicine part one
The meeting with the medical students is not that polite. Now I will grant you they had just finished their exams (because of the Hebron… Read More »June 25, 2014 Medicine: If It Doesn’t Kill You, It Makes You Strong part two
The Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis ended up on the wrong side of the wall. Every time bus #36 from East Jerusalem turns this particular… Read More »June 25, 2014 Teaching in the Ghetto part one
Blogging retrospectively is a challenge, I am reporting from the ground and the ground is in constant seismic shift mode. Let me acknowledge that the… Read More »June 24, 2014 Travelling while Occupied
I write this blog belatedly about a visit to the Old City of Jerusalem and Yasser Qous, an Afro-Palestinian who runs a youth center in… Read More »June 23, 2014 Building Dreamers in a Nightmare part three
We meet with Randa Wahbe, the dedicated and articulate advocacy officer at Addameer, on the sixty-first day of the longest hunger strike by administrative detainees… Read More »June 23, 2014 Water and Salt part two
Our meeting with Omar Barghouti, one of the leaders of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, starts in a stairwell, since the office where… Read More »June 23, 2014 Tarnishing the Israeli Brand part one
My glasses (somewhat symbolically) have broken; perhaps my brain does not want to see any more, but there is so much to witness. Even with… Read More »June 22, 2014 What do I know? I am just a Bedouin. A lot.
We have not had enough sleep in days and are suffering from that weariness that comes with bearing witness to injustices that seem overwhelming, over… Read More »June 22, 2014 Crying and Shooting part two
So why should Jewish Israelis care about what happened to the people they defeated 67 years ago? The Arabs rejected the Partition Plan, there was… Read More »June 22, 2014 Zochrot: Bending the Arc towards Justice part one
