In America they retained the vestiges of important Indian tribes or tribes that are still dwelling. This is not the case here. We have nothing to do with the name of a minuscule Bedouin tribe, and we can assign a Hebrew name here. Yitzhak Be Zvi, at the Negev committee meeting, Sept 29, 1949 Photos […]
Read More next steps for my nakba photograpic project“The facts are that men, women, old people and babies were murdered, villages were destroyed and burned, without justification […]. There will only be atonement when those guilty of murder will be judged and when the houses and the lands of the people of Saliha will be returned to them […] but who but us, […]
Read More The ongoing and relentless nakba: end of year update (2021)From my journal, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches based on my latest work in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019 and more recent writing. PHOTOS VIDEO The past as it is and has been […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: The Two Ein’s—Ein Hawd & Ein HodFirst published on the occasion of the UN-declared International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2019 With continuing gratitude to those who’ve already generously funded my Nakba photographic project, now I seek further funding for “The Ongoing Nakba, photographs of internally expelled Palestinians in the West Bank.” Early in 2020, I plan to return for another […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba: a photographic project about expelled Palestinians in the West Bank—End of year updateFrom my journal, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches based on my latest work in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019. PHOTOS The 1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle, also known as the Lydda […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba—Rajab Mustafa Ghanem wishes when he dies to be buried in his home village of Lod/LyddaFrom my journal, letters, and other writing about internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. These dispatches based on my latest work in Palestine-Israel from mid-May to mid-July 2019. PHOTOS July 5, 2019, Friday, West Bank, Jenin, Freedom Theater guest house The conventional […]
Read More The Ongoing Nakba—In search of destroyed Arab villagesFrom my journal and letters, my dispatches from the field and now from home in Cambridge Massachusetts, after I had photographed internally expelled Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza (once I can enter Gaza), plus their ancestral homelands. (I plan a return journey from May 15 thru July 10, 2019 (including two weeks […]
Read More Palestinian Refugees & their Ancestral Lands (or On Our Way Home)—part 21—the destroyed village of Deir Yassin
Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography 