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Israel and Palestine in Context

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Columns

Daydream
May 17, 2022
I’ll write about a joy that invades Jenin from six directions,about children running while holding balloons in Am’ari Camp, about a fullness that quiets breastfeeding babies all night in Askar, about a little sea we can stroll up and down in Tulkarem,about eyes that stare ...

Popular and Known to No One
April 26, 2022
With ravenous eyesI devoured what others thought I was nourishing.This is how I overindulged,with glances thatare never returned.A few days ago the little one cried.She lifted her head to the sky,tears fell from her eyes,a sob filled her throat.In silence I watched,ignoring ...

Crucifixes of Beit Sahour
April 12, 2022
The serenity I knowresides in my bones.I learned this through the most submissive actions.In the hand that greets,the foot that stands,and the shoulder that carries.Tell it like a storyor an anecdoteor a tragedy,it doesn’t matter.The story maker never becomes a strangerand ...

Weak at the Knees
April 07, 2022
“Ahed’s Knee” has little to say about the gravest crimes of the state it sets out to criticize.

Vegan Nation
January 10, 2022
Israel’s status as a “vegan nation” sits uneasily alongside the state’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians.

When He Reaches His Solitude in Full
November 02, 2021
He closes the door, turns off the lightsexcept the hallway’s which leads to the fenceand lets him peek at the bougainvillea and the branches of the sweet apple he planted last winter.  Inside his room one candleby the window will do. A smokey candle and its ...

My Enemies Defeated Me / For Nothing
October 26, 2021
My enemies defeated me, led me downhill,executed my horse, and made me watch.My enemies defeated me, sold my mats, rugs,and colored rosaries at the bazaarto merchants and traders in shadows.In the dark my friends betrayed me.My children saw the hyena laugh outside our window.At ...

A Contemporary Novel
September 28, 2021
heeds no council, offers no rawsolutions, is part and parcel of actionsthat were not taken. Finding out who the killer isis not the point of the murderin the opening scene. For the third time my handsalter the female protagonistbefore the novel even begins. In her ...

Reflection
September 14, 2021
Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher.I feel like I handed him my headand the words I speak from now onwill come out of his mouth.What a disaster! Disasters don’t show up one at a time.They arrive in legions like a starving hoard.A poet said this then died.For ...