Month: July 2014

*Dalia Elnajjar is a 20-year-old Palestinian living in Gaza I think I lost it. I can’t take it anymore. I can’t handle this situation. I’m […]

Dear Jon, I, like many Americans, watch you just about every day.  You’re welcome.  I’m not sure if you know this, and I’m not sure […]

Israel, Don’t you see what is going on?  I won. It’s over. There are protests around the world, all in support of me.  None for […]

(The following is taken from my conversation with my friend Amaney, who is living in Western Gaza. These are her words, which I felt compelled […]

Over the past couple of weeks, many of us Palestinians have been incessantly writing, posting, tweeting, and commenting about Palestine, Israel, and Gaza.  I have […]

Last weekend, I ventured back to my hometown of Flint, Michigan and attended the annual Mid-East Festival hosted by Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic […]

First, I want to start out saying that my heart and prayers are with every family in Palestine. I couldn’t even begin to imagine what […]

There is an intoxicating allure to allowing oneself to drink from the cup of fatalism as bombs drop—once again—on Gaza. What can we Americans—some of […]

No one else can understand a Palestinian’s relationship to Israel, and I wouldn’t expect as much. She consumes us, in every sense you can imagine. […]

All my life, I was so worried that I was going to turn into “fellaheen.” My mom would use it as a warning to keep […]

Away from this injustice Away from all this ugliness Can any of us go away? But even if we did, It’s inside of us Not […]

Over the past week, the American press has latched on to the story of Tariq Khdeir, the 15-year-old Palestinian American whose beating at the hands […]

When I think of my kids growing up, with all the new advances in technology, and how different it was when I was growing up […]

21 years and 2 weeks ago on the 16th of June, an extraordinary man was receiving really bad news from his doctor: “You are diagnosed […]

It doesn’t take a genius to see the popularity of the World Cup (and soccer overall) increasing in America, and it could not be any […]