Francis Day 2022 reflection— As part of a procession to memorial trees during the annual St. Francis Day celebration at Agape, a lay Catholic/Catholic Worker style nonviolence activist center in central Massachusetts, I offered the following reflections at a tree dedicated to suffering and resilience in the Middle East. Agape’s annual Francis Day celebration in […]
Read More Gaza Comes to MassachusettsFrom my journal and letters, my dispatches from the field, as I photograph internally displaced refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, plus their ancestral lands. (and as I photograph the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) trainings at least in Bethlehem, Hebron, and Ramallah, Gaza as well if I get my entry permit from Israel) […]
Read More Palestinian Refugees & their Ancestral Lands (or On Our Way Home)—part 3—Bedouin Village of Khan al-Ahmar threatened with demolitionPrayer is one hundred percent attention. —Anonymous During my first visit to Gaza in 2004, I accompanied a team of doctors and psychologists visiting hospitals. I photographed as they spoke with children wounded by Israeli soldiers. A 10-year-old boy, riding his bike in front of his house, shot in the stomach by an Israeli sniper. […]
Read More Tears as PrayersExcerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos: Qattan Centre for the Child Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children August 7 & 11, 2009, Friday & Tuesday, Gaza City, The Gaza Strip, my apartment: I dreamt I was to meet Alice Rothschild, the physician (and in […]
Read More The rising of the light: Two resources for children in the Gaza Strip, Qattan & AtfalunaExcerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos June 21, 2009, Sunday, Ramallah Friends School apartment—summer solstice: Yes, how could I ignore this: summer solstice, the first time I can recall celebrating it out of country. How to celebrate here? An extra cup of coffee? […]
Read More The rising of the light: Morning to Night: “Happy Land”—Israel & PalestineAt home in Cambridge Massachusetts I am now recounting my trip to southeast USA with my photographic presentations about Palestine & Israel, in 15 parts, one for each day. Photos from the trip, In passing: the south :: February 2009 Report of the trip Photos in this entry from Al-Kamandjati Music Center, Ramallah, Occupied Territories […]
Read More Travel Journal, North Carolina to Florida, February 5, 2009—day fiveRecounting my trip to southeast USA with my photographic presentations about Palestine & Israel, in 15 parts, one for each day. All photos in this post are from my presentations. Photos from the trip, In passing: the south :: February 2009 Report of the trip One very powerful dream, M featured. She and I were […]
Read More Travel Journal, North Carolina to Florida, February 2, 2009—day twoAmani 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, […]
Read More “We hope at the end our voices will be heard and someone will feel the people’s pain in Gaza and help them.”Written to review my experiences after New England Yearly Meeting of Friends sessions at Bryant University, Smithfield Rhode Island. NEYM sessions brings together some 800 Friends for 5 days to deliberate business, attend workshops, pray and engage in other reflective processes, meet new people and renew old friendships, and take a break from the quotidian […]
Read More Whether to pray, sing, do business, walk, rest, read—New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, 2008On Mar 2, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Yusef wrote: Subject: The children still playing.. Dearest Skip The sun is going to sink in a short time. The sounds of a hidden helicopter still heard from time to another but the children still playing and shouting outside without giving any attention to these terrifying sounds, Strange […]
Read More Yusef from Gaza, Skip from the United States
Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography 