This article was published on Babelmed.net (http://eng.babelmed.net/cultura-e-societa/36-mediterraneo/13190-disenchantment.html) Christmas and the end of a year is the time for being a good person, drawing lessons and staying with your closest relatives and friends. Exactly five years ago, I wrote on this magazine an article named “Disgust” to express my embarrassment at the starting of the Israeli…
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Arabic versions of “Walls, Tears and Z’atar”
The book “Walls, Tears and Z’atar” is now available in Arabic language. The book was presented in Alexandria, Egypt, on the 20th of June with the participation of the famous international writer Alaa Al-Aswani. Book introduction “Palestine doesn’t exist,” said a young, freckle-faced soldier at Kalandia checkpoint as he checked my papers on the road…
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Darkness in Aleppo
(This article was originally published on Mashallah News, and on BabelMed in French) His nickname is “Black Eyes.” He is 21 years old and joined the Free Syrian Army after months of demonstrating, after the authorities had lost their patience with those young people demanding the fall of the regime. He walks around the al-Mashhad…
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Beyond the Battle of Alexandria
(this article was originally published on European Alternatives, and on Mashallah News, photos by Paulina Raduchowska) Two years after the revolution, everything began again in Alexandria. January 25 2013, a Friday, a day of prayer, was supposed to be the second anniversary of the revolution. But it ended up being a wave of chaos and violence…
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