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Author:Rana Baker | Date : 2012-03-15
I spent the most part of my childhood in my grandmother’s arms. My mother was striving to get her bachelor’s degree and my father had to make a living. Whenever I look at my teta Detalis
Author:Patrick Keddie | Date : 2012-03-15
The standard line trotted out by Israeli politicians is that Israel is the only democracy among a sea of repressive Arab autocracies Detalis
Author:Nader K | Date : 2012-03-13
I know you probably won’t be there to read this. Maybe I would be dead before you see the light Detalis
Author:Palestinian Center for Human Rights | Date : 2012-03-12
 Ahmad Asad Mohamed al Ashqar 28 lives in Beit Lahiya, with his wife Camelia 27, and their four children Malak (6), Wadea (3), Maha (2), and Mohamed (1). Ahmad's father and stepmother also live with the family. Detalis
Author:This is Gaza | Date : 2012-03-10
 I am a kid, at least this is what they call me. I cried once in my life, but no one ever knew why Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2012-03-03
 Yesterday, I came across this picture. It spoke to me, it told me a story of a Palestinian family from Burqin, it told me the story of thousands of Palestinian families in occupied Palestine Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2012-02-18
 Dear brother, dear comrade, Detalis
Author:Dr. Maria C. Khoury | Date : 2012-02-06
 Trying to create a German tradition of Oktoberfest in Palestine during the last seven years has not been an easy task, especially when you are not even of German descent. Detalis
Author:Mission Free Palestinian Political Prisoners | Date : 2012-02-06
the father of Nafez Shawamra told that soldiers broke in the house midnight for arresting his son Nafez Detalis
Author:Linah Alsaafin | Date : 2012-02-06
On Friday February the 3rd during the weekly popular resistance protests in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh Detalis
Author:Group 194 | Date : 2012-01-31
This is a partial list of children mostly 13 and under of the approximately 1,500 Palestinian minors killed by Israeli forces Detalis
Author:Palden Jenkins | Date : 2012-01-28
 In Bethlehem's Old Town there are old ladies who sell herbs and vegetables. They come in from the outlying villages Detalis
Author:Nader K | Date : 2012-01-22
Writing in the dark has always had this great effect on writing. Looking into it and Detalis
Author:Jeff Halper | Date : 2012-01-10
This morning I got a call from Jawdi Jaber, a Palestinian friend from the Baka Valley Detalis
Author:Team Palestina | Date : 2012-01-05
 Lost her family and still remember the moments of murder and sabotage .. Samouni hope: I still feel shrapnel moving within the brain Detalis
Author:Linah Alsaafin | Date : 2012-01-04
 My friend Amra Amra informed me that the Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights were planning on commemorating the third year since the massacre on Gaza Detalis
Author:Sarah Ali | Date : 2012-01-04
I am a terrorist. At least that is what they call me. I grew up hearing the same word being repeated so often that I thought terrorists Detalis
Author:Mohammed Suliman | Date : 2011-12-29
It was a few minutes past eleven. I woke up “early” to start preparing for my school exams that were due to start in a couple of weeks Detalis
Author:MIKAELA LEVIN -AIC | Date : 2011-12-20
A young Palestinian man shares his personal story of life in the seam zone--the area of the West Bank Detalis
Author:Holly Rigby | Date : 2011-12-19
I recently experienced one of the darkest and most disturbing days in my adult life Detalis
Author:Eva Bartlett | Date : 2011-12-17
I’ve been waking up by 7 or earlier lately, mostly because I’ve had a number of early morning appointments in Gaza City Detalis
Author:Fidaa Abu Assi | Date : 2011-12-13
 Life in Gaza seems to many somehow disappointing. This is what most people think, Detalis
Author:Linah Alsaafin -The Electronic Intifada | Date : 2011-12-12
 “Ambulance! Ambulance!” Detalis
Author:Abir Kopty | Date : 2011-12-11
Author:Eyad Sarraj | Date : 2011-12-11
Yesterday, my six year old son Ali went to his swimming hour after school in Wafa Detalis
Author:Sandy Tolan | Date : 2011-12-06
 In 1988, a photographer in the West Bank snapped a photo of a scrawny 8-year-old with tears in his eyes Detalis
Author:Dema El Hellou, Student, Bethlehem University | Date : 2011-12-04
In a desperate effort to calm my nerves to concentrate in the last hour of my Detalis
Author:Philip Weiss | Date : 2011-12-01
 What a lovely face, don't you think? Shaden Abu Hijleh was a philanthropist and democracy activist in Nablus, married to a leading surgeon. Detalis
Author:Jim McGown | Date : 2011-11-23
This past week I helped organize a conference in Atlanta entitled From Birmingham Detalis
Author:Toufic Haddad, al-Akhbar | Date : 2011-11-22
After 33 years in captivity, Fakhri Barghouti returned to his people and his family Detalis
Author:Nathan Jeffay | Date : 2011-11-17
Ramallah — He’s the Palestinian-American who is determined to out-settle the settlers. Detalis
Author:Ben Lorber | Date : 2011-11-17
 Earlier today, 7 Palestinian activists were arrested as part of the Freedom Rides attempt to board segregated buses going from the West Bank into occupied East Jerusalem. Detalis
Author:Save the Children, The Guardian | Date : 2011-11-16
Saleem Abdulla, aged six. He is in the first grade at Rimal school, Gaza. Detalis
Author:Anna Younan | Date : 2011-11-16
Dear Friends, colleagues, and brothers and sisters in humanity: Detalis
Author:Ayman Quader | Date : 2011-11-16
I was born in July, 1986. I received my education in the UNRWA schools since my childhood Detalis
Author:Nour Joudah | Date : 2011-11-16
 I grew up with two stories, two histories and, in many ways, two countries. From the age of 5 until 21 Detalis
Author:Saadi Salama | Date : 2011-11-13
Mr President, the first time I met you 30 years ago, I was studying at Hanoi University in Vietnam Detalis
Author:Howgaza | Date : 2011-10-25
 Generally women traditionally wore either coats over shirts and pants or thobes with a veil - usually hanging loose down their backs. Detalis
Author:Lisa Mullenneaux | Date : 2011-10-25
 Locked in a British brig in 1939 Palestine, Arab nationalist Yusef has a vision: “All Detalis
Author:Shahd Abusalama -The Electronic Intifada | Date : 2011-10-25
A very confusing feeling passes through me after hearing about the exchange of Detalis
Author:Lillian Rosengarten | Date : 2011-10-25
Gaza life exists in a cage, an open air prison that has been kept mostly isolated Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-10-13
If you travel along Al-Jabal street, you pass by a monument, not huge and not Detalis
Author:Shahd Abusalama | Date : 2011-10-12
 I just came back from the Gaza solidarity tent for our Palestinian political prisoners who are steadfastly continuing their hunger strike for the 14th day Detalis
Author:Shahd Abusalama | Date : 2011-10-12
 I haven’t been getting enough sleep lately. Last night I was exhausted, in body and mind Detalis
Author:Sconews | Date : 2011-10-01
As the Palestinian Authority got ready to petition the UNto recognise its status as a state, LIZLEYDON spoke to former Lord Provost of Glasgow Alex Mosson about the importance of supporting Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land Detalis
Author:Metro | Date : 2011-10-01
Fearless Tigers: Palestine’s bid for statehood has dominated the UN Assembly but the combination of a women’s football team and a former resistance fighter is also helping to achieve that dream. Detalis
Author:Merry Rebel | Date : 2011-09-26
Back in the days Detalis
Author:Abir Kopty | Date : 2011-09-23
This morning Mr. President you are so popular in Israel. You are the king of Israel. You did great job. It will be such a shame if you lose the next elections after such a speech. Detalis
Author:Ahmed Yousef | Date : 2011-09-22
The Arab world is experiencing a time of epic transformation. Few believed the streets of Tunis would rebel in their lifetimes, let alone simultaneously with Tripoli, Cairo, Damascus, Sanaa and all the smaller cities known more to the citizenry than the media. Detalis
Author:Nick Nash | Date : 2011-09-21
(Dedicated to the people of Palestine) Detalis
Author:Mhara Costello | Date : 2011-09-20
'Terrorist' is just a word, one I wish I'd never heard Detalis
Author:Ma'an news agency | Date : 2011-09-19
 An open letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, written by a student in Bethlehem. Detalis
Author:Ameer Makhoul-The Electronic Intifada | Date : 2011-09-19
 The story of the watermelon and the forty prisoners Detalis
Author:Harriet Sherwood - guardian.co.uk | Date : 2011-09-14
 Villagers who have often been at the sharp end of Palestinian-Israeli relations are sceptical about the UN route Detalis
Author:Jenny Baboun and George Hale | Date : 2011-09-13
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) - Qais Abu Laila was ready to head home from his Ramallah office when a telephone call thrusted him into the center of an unfolding event which, for many, would define the coming decade. Detalis
Author:Arwa Aburawa | Date : 2011-09-07
 Palestinians have been divided and systematically fragmented since the Nakba (disaster) of 1948 which tore them from their homes and dispersed them across the world Detalis
Author:Emma Mancini and Ahmad Jaradat, AIC | Date : 2011-09-06
 While the Israeli colonisation project in the West Bank is increasing and eating away at Palestinian lands, the Palestinian popular resistance continues its daily struggle. Detalis
Author:Diana Shuman | Date : 2011-09-06
 As long as I remember
my lips were shaped by her name
her image etched into my mind
I yearn for her every day
with each heartbeat
with each breath
with each thought…
my love for her grows.
She is my mother-- Detalis
Author:James Schamus, Professor of Practice, School of the Arts, Columbia University. | Date : 2011-08-29
A Friday afternoon in the village of Bil'in is quite an experience, especially if, like me, you've spent the previous couple of days hanging out in Tel Aviv talking about movies. Basically, the villagers and a hundred or two additional Detalis
Author:Sara Refai | Date : 2011-08-28
 7 hours at the border with a broken foot, mostly just hanging about waiting for yet another person to question me about what I’ll be doing, my background and the reasons behind various decisions I’ve made in my life Detalis
Author:Jdledell | Date : 2011-08-28
 Earlier tonight, Jdledell offered the following comment on a post about Palestinian children's arrests. We asked if we could post it, and he agreed. He was responding to another Israeli commenter. Detalis
Author:umkahlil | Date : 2011-08-20
 1938. National Christian Orthodox School, Jaffa. Khalidi, Walid. Before Their Diaspora. Washington D.C.: Insitute for Palestine Studies, 1991 Detalis
Author:sameeha88 | Date : 2011-08-17
My Dear Stateless Palestinian:
They say that the soft wind of September would blow us a State. A Palestinian State Detalis
Author:sameeha88 in Uncategorized | Date : 2011-08-17
who is holding a medical report to be transferred to Egypt for treatment, cannot take off to Rafah border unless she had previously registered her name in the Ministry of Interior. She has to wait. Again Detalis
Author:Associated Press -Film festivals -October 08, 2010 | Date : 2011-08-16
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Indian actress who starred in “Slumdog Millionaire” has moved from the slums of Mumbai to the squalid refugee camps of the West Bank in a new film: the story of a defiant Palestinian girl who wants to fight against Israel in a coming of age story with a Mideast twists. Detalis
Author:Alessandra Bajec -PNN | Date : 2011-08-15
 The first time I visited Hebron and thereafter, I thought the Old City, with its 700 Israeli settlers living under heavy protection by the army amongst about 30,000 Palestinians Detalis
Author:Mohammed Omer - Gaza City | Date : 2011-08-15
Access to education for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is getting worse as international organisations remain unwilling or unable to intervene Detalis
Author:Ida Audeh -The Electronic Intifada | Date : 2011-08-13
 Few Palestinians are as closely identified with the struggle against Israel’s wall in the West Bank as Jamal Juma’. The coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign since its establishment in 2002 Detalis
Author:Sara Hussein -AFP | Date : 2011-08-13
 RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Olga Kishek was just a child when her family left the West Bank but a Palestinian programme encouraging participants to "know thy heritage" has brought her back to her birthplace. Detalis
Author:Sami Awad-Huffington Post | Date : 2011-08-13
 Whenever I give talks on the effects of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian livelihood, the status of nonviolence as a means to resisting the occupation Detalis
Author:Amnesty | Date : 2011-08-13
 Palestinian beautician Linan Abu Ghulmeh (pictured right with her mother) and her younger sister Taghreed were arrested by the Israeli security forces in the early hours of 15 July 2010, while they were sleeping Detalis
Author:Mohammed Suliman | Date : 2011-08-10
I always believed to write is to “make less the dept of grief.” But it’s been long since I wrote down anything, and indeed I spent long and hard time attempting to convince myself Detalis
Author:Johnny Barber | Date : 2011-08-10
'Dear Johnny:
'While you are in Gaza, please visit Gilad Shalit. He is the Israeli soldier who was kidnapped from outside Gaza 5 years ago, and has been held by Hamas without visits by anyone Detalis
Author:Mats Svensson | Date : 2011-08-10
I have visited Muhammad around sixty times. But it is only now that we begin to really talk to each other Detalis
Author:Eva Bartlett | Date : 2011-08-03
 a big hug
stay human
Your Vik
This is how Vittorio “Vik” Arrigoni always signed off in his emails Detalis
Author:umkahlil.blogspot | Date : 2011-08-02
 Time to re-visit, as administrators like to say, the Christian Zionists. This is a response to the usual blather from one of the the Armageddon is nigh types Detalis
Author:Hussein Ibish | Date : 2011-07-26
 Last week I had a fascinating debate with David Ha’ivri1, an extremist Israeli settler—an event loosely connected to a conference of the pro-settler Christians United for Israel organization Detalis
Author:AFP | Date : 2011-07-26
 With the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000, travel restrictions between the West Bank and Jerusalem gradually tightened until in 2003, Israel effectively stopped issuing Jerusalem residency permits to Palestinians Detalis
Author:Jessica Azulay | Date : 2011-07-26
 To the Israelis, the Jenin Refugee Camp is a place crawling with terrorists and potential suicide bombers, a place where they lost 23 Israeli comrades in their latest reoccupation of the West Bank Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-07-24
 We, the Palestinians, have a voice; a strong one that never tires no matter the deafness or the silence of the world Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-07-24
“Too many long days and night passed since Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas 1501 is beyond comprehension.” Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer | Date : 2011-07-24
Last night at 10 p.m. a friend in Marda called to say the army was uprooting trees near the road. My colleague Hannah and I rushed to the scene where we found two jeeps Detalis
Author:Palestinian artist Mohammad Alrouqi | Date : 2011-07-23
A couple of days ago, I watched a documentary about Jeanne d’Arc, the French peasant girl who became a national heroine. “Jeanne d’Arc” was one of the very first books I read as a child Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-07-23
Listen to the olive tree tell you of a people steadfast in their land, steadfast since the beginning of time, steadfast till the end of time Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-07-23
Dima was very anxious. She spent the entire day walking, talking, listening to others talk, thinking and wondering about the next day. And the night was no better Detalis
Author:Jonathan Cook | Date : 2011-07-20
It was an Arab legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law Detalis
Author:Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad-The Daily Star | Date : 2011-07-20
I was born in Jerusalem in the 1980s into the reality of occupation. My father had been politically active in the 1970s and my uncle is a former Cabinet minister. As for myself, during my teenage years I became head of my high school union Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-07-19
 On a beautiful March day, I was on the way to school in Jerusalem when the bus I was in was stopped at Ras Il-Amoud. The soldiers got into the bus, told everyone to get out and told the bus driver to turn and go back from where it came Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-07-19
 Last week I got my new “Palestinian Passport”. Palestinians need to renew their passports every three years, and it was time for me to renew mine. Living in Germany the next step for me would be to get my “residency permit” Detalis
Author:Mohammed Rabah Suliman | Date : 2011-07-19
 Vittorio: (Vik, Victor, Victorio. Full name: Vittorio Utopia Arrigoni) a Palestinian martyr, only a bit braver, who was abducted and gruesomely killed at the hands of an Detalis
Author:Mohammed Rabah Suliman | Date : 2011-07-19
This isn’t my story. But it could have been, and it can be the story of any young Palestinian living in this small besieged part of the world. Only that it bears much more painful profundity Detalis
Author:reham alhelsi | Date : 2011-07-18
 Targeting the weakest and the most vulnerable is neither new nor surprising when it comes from an entity that stands on the ruins of Palestinian villages and is swimming in the blood of its Palestinian victims Detalis
Author:Enas_Muthaffar | Date : 2011-07-18
First and foremost, Muthaffar explains of the difficulties faced by Palestinian filmmakers in the occupied Palestinian territories, given the lack of Palestinian funding Detalis
Author:alresalah | Date : 2011-07-16
Children all over the world wait eagerly for their summer holiday to take some rest before completing their education. As all children, Gazan kids do Detalis
Author:Hekmat Bessiso | Date : 2011-07-13
I hope one day to share a coffee with you in my home or in yours, for when this day comes we will have reached our freedom Detalis
Author:Barbara Ransby | Date : 2011-07-13
On July 11, the Israeli parliament approved a law making any boycott against Israel a civil offense akin to libel and defamation. The law empowers any institution targeted in a boycott to sue the organizers for damages Detalis
Author:Mohammed Rabah Suliman | Date : 2011-07-12
 It all started on January, 5th 2009, around two in the morning, the eighth day of a ferocious war the ‘Israeli Defense Forces’ waged against heavy-populated Gaza strip Detalis
Author:Sabi Atteyih | Date : 2011-07-12
 The radio was blaring with news that the British army, which occupied Palestine at the time, turned over the country to a handful of European Jews; they decided to call the land Israel Detalis
Author:Gaza Diaries of Peace and War | Date : 2011-07-12
I, for one, hate to study with company. It’s 3:05am. I’ll be tested on American literature at 11:00am. Less than eight hours separate me from the exam, and yet I have plenty to cram into my mind but Detalis
Author:Gaza Diaries of Peace and War | Date : 2011-07-12
For the first time in twenty-two days the Earth woke up without a start. Even though the sky was spotted with a few randomly dispersed clouds, it was bereft of the disturbing tones of the overhead drones which had now disappeared Detalis
Author:Dr. Hanan Chehata | Date : 2011-07-12
On Monday 15th March Channel 4 aired an episode of Dispatches entitled "The Children of Gaza". It focused on the lives of a few of the children living in that small strip of Palestinian land whose lives were Detalis
Author:Rita McGaughey | Date : 2011-07-12
I had many opportunities to visit Bethlehem during the years I made my home in the Galilee region of Israel. The village of Rama in the Upper Galilee was my home while serving as a retired volunteer from 1989-95 Detalis
Author:Mourad Chaouch | Date : 2011-07-12
My last stay in Jerusalem in early 1999 was at the historic American Colony Hotel, right on the old green line separating East and West Jerusalem Detalis
Author:Laurel Severns | Date : 2011-07-12
Laurel Severns traveled to Israel/Palestine in March 2001. She was part of a delegation of staff of the American Friends Service Committee, an international Quaker peace and justice organization. These were her reflections Detalis
Author:Susan Muaddi | Date : 2011-07-12
I am a Palestinian-American. My parents came to the United States in 1967. I have visited my family and friends in the West Bank on numerous occasions Detalis
Author:Rev. Sandra Olewine, United Methodist Liaison - Jerusalem | Date : 2011-07-12
The harsh realities of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation are far too seldom exposed to the Israeli public, let alone the world at large. While Palestinians and others Detalis
Date : 2011-07-12
This isn’t my story. But it could have been, and it can be the story of any young Palestinian living in this small besieged part of the world Detalis
Author:IPS | Date : 2011-07-12
“The mosque was just 100 meters from our house,” said Mohammed, a resident of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer | Date : 2011-07-12
A few weeks ago I attended an event commemorating Palestinian Prisoner’s Day at Al Far’a Refugee Camp in the Tubas area Detalis
Author:jkdamours | Date : 2011-07-11
For 61-year-old Abd al-Rahim Bisharat, life in the Bedouin community of al- Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley is anything but easy Detalis
Author:jkdamours | Date : 2011-07-11
A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both discriminatory and ignores the Bedouins’ historic connection to the land Detalis
Author:Jillian Kestler-D'Amours-The Electronic Intifada | Date : 2011-07-11
Seven-month-old Nouralden Issa Abbassi’s future is in limbo because Israel won’t issue him Jerusalem residency rights Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer | Date : 2011-07-10
 Five years ago, nine-month-old Mohammed and his grandmother were in their West Bank home when it began to fill with nerve gas from a nearby Israeli Occupation Forces military base Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer-Umm al-Fahim | Date : 2011-07-10
The town of Um El Fahim in present-day Israel is home to 48,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel. Most are internal refugees denied services by the state equal to its Jewish citizens or the right to return to their original land Detalis
Author:livefromoccupiedpalestine | Date : 2011-07-10
no doubt may of you will have seen the footage already from the "Jerusalem Day" march by rightwing Israeli Zionists in Israel Detalis
Author:Americans For Palestine-Daniel | Date : 2011-07-09
 Eight years ago, Rachel Corrie's parents, Cindy and Craig, filed a civil lawsuit against the State of Israel for Rachel’s unlawful killing Detalis
Author:Jonathan Cook - Lifta | Date : 2011-07-07
Author:Gilad Atzmon | Date : 2011-07-07
On July 8th we are flying for Palestinian freedom -- and for our own Detalis
Author:palestinejn | Date : 2011-07-07
Lubna Masarwa, a Palestinian from Israel, is an activist and board member of the "Free Gaza" organization. These past days she was in Berlin to present a new initiative Detalis
Author:Bonnie King Salem-News | Date : 2011-07-07
The Trade Not Aid UK Tour is being conducted to connect the people of England, Scotland & Wales to the people of Palestine in a physical, tangible way Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer | Date : 2011-07-06
 Today I visited my friend Dawud in Kufr ‘Ain for the first time since he lost his six-month-old baby at Atara Checkpoint Detalis
Author:Ray Smith | Date : 2011-07-06
In the West Bank, dissident voices questioning the Palestinian Authority's increasingly authoritarian rule have become rare. But a young musician in Ramallah refuses to hold his tongue Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer | Date : 2011-07-05
 I took a short day trip to Jericho several days ago Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer - Lopez, Colombia | Date : 2011-07-05
"They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don't care about us. They want the land -- without the people on it Detalis
Author:Anna Baltzer | Date : 2011-07-05
Two winters ago I attended a demonstration in the village of Bil’ain in protest of the Wall that Israel was building between the village and more than half of its land Detalis
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