By Ahmad Shaheen | Guardian: Comment Is Free
I was born in a tent and I’m living in a tent, but I hope I won’t die in a tent.
I’m a middle-aged journalist and a human rights advocate. My children are grown up and college educated – three of them married with children. I’m far from them though, living with my partner in a desert refugee camp on the Iraqi-Syrian border. Through friends I managed to get word to my brother to phone me on a borrowed mobile, from a shop in our refugee camp in Gaza last week. I was … Continue reading
1967: Abandoned and rejected
By Ahmad Shaheen | Guardian: Comment Is Free
I was born in a tent and I’m living in a tent, but I hope I won’t die in a tent.
I’m a middle-aged journalist and a human rights advocate. My children are grown up and college educated – three of them married with children. I’m far from them though, living with my partner in a desert refugee camp on the Iraqi-Syrian border. Through friends I managed to get word to my brother to phone me on a borrowed mobile, from a shop in our refugee camp in Gaza last week. I was … Continue reading
Updated on January 10, 2009
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Ahmad Shaheen, Al Ramleh, Al-Qubayba, Comment Is Free, Gaza, refugees