Month: May 2015

Today is Israeli Independence Day.  We Palestinians call it “Nakba Day.”  “Nakba” translates from Arabic into English as “catastrophe.”  Independence. Catastrophe.  You say Po-tay-to. I […]

Dear Pam, I’ve been watching you.  Now, I don’t mean that I’ve been “watching” you in the same way the FBI watches us Arabs and […]

Sidi Bouzid is a modest city of about 120,000 in central Tunisia. Mohamed Bouazizi was a fruit vendor on its streets. He never graduated from […]