5:30 on a Wednesday in late November. Our Ramallah master class at The National Conservatory of Music (Palestine) has just ended and ten-year-old Taher, a young flute-player, is practically jumping…
Late afternoon, October 16, 2009. Nasser Ghawe, 46, barrel-chested, with an expressive face and a ready smile, calls out to his little girl when she strays too far down the…
In 1979 The American Colony was one of the most beautiful hotels I'd ever seen. Its low buildings, which rose among lush gardens, were made of Jerusalem stone. Just beyond…
Late afternoon. I have just taken the jolting hour and a quarter bus ride from Jerusalem into the West Bank, my destination Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement smack up against…
Gaza is an immense concentration camp -- 1.5 million people squeezed into 140 square miles hemmed in on all sides by 25-foot-high walls separated by a vast expanse of bulldozed…
Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a…
Before me as I write this essay is Palestine & Palestinians, published by the Alternative Tourism Group in Beit Sahour (www.atg.ps). It embraces landscape, geography, buildings and monuments; history; flora,…
To grasp what the gate really means, though, you’d have to stay, as I did, at least a night with a farmer in Jayyous at harvest time. You’d awaken with…
In Salfit district in the northern West Bank, the women’s educational organization Women for Life with its girls’ spin-off, Flowers Against the Occupation, in 2005 conceived the idea of a…
