Posted in Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged blog, hydrology, hydropolitics, israel, levant, palestine, palestinian, Photography, pipe, pump, ramallah, samia, schiel, settlement, skip schiel, spring, teeksa, water, water politics, website, well on July 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Main pump delivering water to Ramallah
Pumping station, Ein Samia well field
Ein Samia
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
Special thanks to Fareed Tamallah for this lead, and to Malek Baya who guided and hosted me.
July 26 & 27, 2009, Sunday & Monday, Ramallah Friends School apartment:
A [...]
Posted in Palestine & Israel, Photography, Quakers/Religious Society of Friends, tagged american friends service committee, blog, dabka, festival, jerusalem, levant, palestine, palestinian, Photography, popular achievement, public achievement, ramallah, schiel, skip schiel, teeksa, website, youth on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Display about Mahmoud Darwish
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
July 27, 2009, Tuesday, Ramallah Friends School apartment:
These sketchy dreams: I smashed a man in the face and stomach, knocking him out cold, after arguing with him about passage thru a confined space, or so [...]
Posted in Palestine & Israel, Photography, Photography workshops, Quakers/Religious Society of Friends, tagged palestine, israel, workshop, popular achievement, american friends service committee, afsc, gaza, siege, occupation, photography workshop, public achievement on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, now the good news, provisionally:
Israel has granted me a permit to enter Gaza—for 6 months. And the international organization I will volunteer at and who applied for the permit, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is now registered. Furthermore, the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO) tells us they’d granted the permit 2 weeks ago.
What [...]
Posted in Palestine & Israel, Photography, Quakers/Religious Society of Friends, tagged Photography, palestine, schiel, skip schiel, teeksa, levant, palestinian, photography workshop, blog, website, water politics, nablus, city of fire, balata, kunafa, roman on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nablus Old City
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
July 21, 2009, Tuesday, Ramallah Friends School apartment:
Thanks to Jan Hayden for suggesting this tour leader and Max and Jane Carter for welcoming me to the tour.
Another night of plentiful dreams, among them:
I was with a large [...]
Posted in Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged Photography, palestine, schiel, skip schiel, teeksa, water, hydropolitics, hydrology, levant, palestinian, photography workshop, blog, website, water politics, polish humanitarian organization, pump, well, irrigation on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Courtesy of Bethlehem to Ramallah by Boat
Separation Fence, near Qalqilia, West Bank, Palestine
Israeli settlement in the background, Palestinian greenhouses in the foreground
Israeli watchtower
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
July 22, 2009, Wednesday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center:
Special thanks to Fareed Tamallah for this lead, and for [...]
Posted in Palestine & Israel, Photography, Photography workshops, Quakers/Religious Society of Friends, tagged Photography, palestine, workshop, schiel, skip schiel, american friends service committee, afsc, gaza, quaker, teeksa, religious society of friends, youth, levant, palestinian, art, resistance, photography workshop, blog, website, quaker youth program on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
All photos made in January 2008
Complete set
Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza, January 2008
Gaza City
To enter Gaza one needs a permit from the Israeli authorities, the District Coordination Office (DCO) for Gaza. And one needs to apply thru an international non-governmental organization, a NGO. Since 2004, I’ve gotten a permit thru the American Friends Service [...]
Posted in Light, Palestine & Israel, Photography, Photography workshops, tagged art, blog, dream, gaza, jenin, jenin creative cultural center, levant, palestine, palestinian, Photography, photography workshop, resistance, schiel, skip schiel, teeksa, website, workshop, youth on July 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
—Lorraine Hansberry
Jenin
Burquin
Jenin
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
July 17, 2009, Friday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center:
Home again, in the Ramallah Friends School apartment, and truly it feels [...]
Posted in Light, Palestine & Israel, Photography, Photography workshops, tagged art, blog, freedom theater, israel, jenin, jenin creative cultural center, Khirbet Belameh, levant, palestine, palestinian, Photography, photography workshop, resistance, schiel, skip schiel, teeksa, website, workshop, youth on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
800 year old mosque in the center of Jenin
Office of The Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
Shop (Jenin), a video
July 14, 2009, Tuesday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center:
No dreams—dreadful. But a spectacular lilting cloud filled morning sky, and I was [...]
Posted in Light, Palestine & Israel, Photography, tagged art, blog, freedom theater, israel, jenin, jenin creative cultural center, levant, palestine, palestinian, Photography, photography workshop, resistance, schiel, skip schiel, teeksa, website, workshop, youth on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
July 11, 2009, Friday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center:
Plans yesterday shifted moment to moment, as happened on the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage when it disturbed me so much, but now, aging, mellowing, I seem not to mind [...]
Posted in Light, Palestine & Israel, Photography, Photography workshops, tagged art, battle of jenin, dream, freedom theater, hydropolitics, israel, jenin, jenin creative cultural center, levant, palestine, palestinian, Photography, photography workshop, resistance, schiel, skip schiel, teeksa, water, workshop, youth on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles
Photos
July 10, 2009, Friday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center:
One dream that I can recall: I was driving a large bus, not expertly, and had to turn around in a narrow spot filled with cars. As always the outcome remains unknown. [...]
