“We hope at the end our voices will be heard and someone will feel the people’s pain in Gaza and help them.”

Amani Alfarra is from Gaza, currently studying for her PhD in hydrology in Germany. We met in May 2006, in Gaza, while she was writing a report for the United Nations about the water situation in Gaza. She needed photos so I toured the entire region with her. I’ve slightly edited her writing.
Jan 16, 2009 [...]

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The Massacres at Wounded Knee and Gaza: December 29, 1890 & December 27, 2008

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
—Arundhati Roy

Lakota Sioux along the Brule River

Wounded Knee, December 29, 1990

The medicine man

Ibrahem Shatali

Palestinian men bury the body of 4-year-old Lama Hamdan at Beit Hanoun cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008. Lama and [...]

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The Hanukah Massacres: Letters from Gaza

Ibrahim a friend sent me a message on my mobile said : look outside .. F16 warplanes are smiling for you, missiles are dancing for you, “Zanannaa” the discovery planes are singing for you, because I have requested them all wishing you “Happy New Year”

—Adham Khalil from Jabaliya Camp in Gaza, who blogs at Free [...]

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The Hanukah Massacres: A New Year’s Greeting from Gaza

I tend to see it as a flaw in my cognitive abilities that deaths of people who live across the ocean or [die from] poison in the water in Woburn, Massachusetts seem distant to me. I don’t think I am alone in this at all. Actually, I am probably different from some people in that [...]

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