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Meeting Mahmoud
I first heard about Mahmoud Darwish the year I visited Palestine. Although it’s a relatively recent connection, I’ve been trying to make up for lost time – actively collecting and reading as much of his stunning repertoire as possible. My … Continue reading
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Tagged Aida Camp, Bethlehem, Daz Chandler, I Am There, Lyrics, Mahmoud Darwish, Mohammad Hamayel, Palestine, palestinian, poems, poet, poetry, Quds Manasra, Sylvia Plath, Verse
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The September Thing
You’re a liberal thinking, peace loving, supporter of human rights, right? You care about self-determination and refugees, right? So, the Palestinian Authority’s initiative to have the United Nations recognise a Palestinian state, is a good thing then, right? Um…wrong. Over … Continue reading
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Ya3ni and Me
I felt pretty darn good yesterday. I managed to use one of the few idioms I know in Arabic, appropriately and to full effect. Essentially, I made some people – strangers I’d only just met – laugh. A real, hearty … Continue reading
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Tagged Arabic, Arabizi, Daz Chandler, expressions, language, languages, Palestinian Arabic, words, ya3ni, yanni
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A Room with a View
I had to move house the other day. To cut a long story short, the apartment I’d been living in for 3 months earlier this year and had returned to again at the beginning of this month, was about to … Continue reading
Back In Bethlehem
It’s a funny thing coming back to a place that feels like home, but isn’t. It’s even harder to make sense of the sensation, when the said place is so different in every possible way from that space you grew … Continue reading
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Tagged Bethlehem, Daz Chandler, Field recording, Home, Palestine, palestinian, Palestinian Territories, Ramadan, Travel, West Bank
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Unicorns on Naksa Day
One of the projects I’m working to establish is an online, transmedia platform called, ‘All Unicorns Are Terrorists.’ Essentially, the idea is for AUAT to become a haven for multiplatform concepts which set out to provide a holistic or different … Continue reading
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Tagged al wallaje, Bethlehem, dehumanising, media, multiplatform, Occupation, Palestine, sensationalism, shireen al-araj, stereotypes, the other, transmedia, unicorns
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Hanging with the Shabab
Not that you’d know it from reading this blog, but over the past 2 and a half months, I’ve spent lots of time with lots of youth. More specifically, Bethlehem-based youth who are active in the “youth movement.” And, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, demonstrations, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Palestine, palestinian, popular uprising, resistance, West Bank, youth, youth movement
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Bethlehem Pays Tribute To Vittorio Arrigoni
On Friday evening, Palestinians, international volunteers and solidarity activists came together in Bethlehem’s Manger Square to pay tribute to Vittorio Arrigoni who was found assassinated in Gaza earlier that day. Vittorio was a friend and brother to many and inspiration … Continue reading
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Tagged Bethlehem, Gaza, International Solidarity Movement, ISM, Italian activist, Palestine, RIP, Vik, Vittorio Arrigoni
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Interrogated by Fred Flintstone
Last week I was interrogated by Israeli Immigration; 3 hours in the morning between 7am and 10am at Fiumicino Airport in Rome and 2 and three quarter hours in the afternoon at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. After they discovered … Continue reading
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Postcard from Palestine
I recently wrote a feature article called, Pop-culture Postcard From Palestine, for the brand-spanking new, online magazine, Wordy Mofo. I wanted to use the story to communicate the intensity and rare beauty that exists in the occupied Palestinian Territories – … Continue reading