Category: Journals

  • Latifah, A Mother of Seven Prisoners

    Call from a Mother of Seven Prisoners 23 April 2007 Latifah Naji Abo Homeed, 61 years old, lives in Al Am’ary Refugee Camp in the city of Ramallah – Palestine. Of her 10 children, one killed during 1994 by Israeli military & seven have been imprisoned by Israel. She longs to see them but has…

  • PNN: From Palestine to Virginia Tech

    From Palestine to Virginia Tech: We are with you in this Time of Pain by Sami Awad, 20 April 2007 Two days ago a tragic event took place in Virginia Tech in the US that shocked not only the people of the United States but people all across the globe. A violent massacre took place…

  • V for Vacation

    V for Vacation By Omar in Jordan, 24 April 2007 Yesterday I drove for around an hour all the way to the Jordan River near the Dead Sea; I was going to King Hussein’s gateway to pick up my parents who were spending some time in our native city Nablus, my father’s been planning to…

  • Traveling South to Hebron

    by -bat. Internationals in the west bank are busy – there is a lot of useful things to be done, and operating to a tight schedule is not easy in a world where unexpected restrictions may be imposed without warning, and a simple half hour journey can suddenly turn into four due to being detained…

  • One sunny afternoon in Bil’in

    by -bat. I thought long and hard about how to write up this bit, because if I write it in the first person it becomes about me, and about one thing which happened to me once, but I want it to be about the people of this village who have this happen to them regularly,…