Category: Journals

  • Palestine mourns another real legend, a symbol of motherhood

    Palestine mourns another real legend, a symbol of motherhood

    by Shahd Abusalama 11 December 2011 | Palestine from My Eyes My voice is muted but every feature of my face speaks sorrow and anger. There is no need to wonder why. It’s Palestine, the rich land where smiles can turn to tears and laughs can turn to sighs in a second. It’s Palestine, where…

  • I was Mustafa Tamimi

    I was Mustafa Tamimi

    by Refaat Alareer 12 December 2011 | In Gaza, My Gaza! Fifteen years ago I was Mustafa Tamimi. Two months before that it was a relative who had his skull smashed by an explosive bullet from an Israeli sniper. Later that same week another neighbor lost his eye. Before and since then, the same situation…

  • No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered

    No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered

    by Linah Alsaafin 10 December 2011 | The Electronic Intifada “Ambulance! Ambulance!” So far, there were three people who had suffocated from the tear gas, and three people injured by rubber bullets. I saw gas, and so assumed that it was another case of suffocation. But the cries got louder, urgent, desperate — quite unlike…