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 MassachusettsFor community access TV stations and others who might wish to download our new movie and broadcast it—other distributors and venues as well. You can now download the movie at no charge thru PEG Media. (However, you must be registered.) Please consider forwarding this to your local station. Download In Eyewitness Gaza, Skip conveys his […]
Read More Eyewitness Gaza available for download & broadcastIn Gaza for 6 weeks, November 17 – December 28, 2010, to photograph and make a movie, I write the following as my personal assessment, checked with local people. Dedicated to Anne R and Louise D …Five months [after Israel promised to ease the siege in June 2010], there are few signs of real improvement […]
Read More Overview GazaJaffa, from the roof of the Old Jaffa Hostel Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos August 29, 2009, Saturday, Shabbat, Jaffa, Israel, on the roof of the Old Jaffa Hostel: This singular, and perfectly appropriate dream: about Hilda Silverman. I’d made a movie […]
Read More The rising of the light: North from Jaffa to the GalileeGaza Sderot Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos August 27 & 28, 2009, Thursday & Friday, Sderot, Israel, in the home of Nomika Zion & Jaffa, Israel, on the roof of the Old Jaffa Hostel: Yes, arrived in Israel. With much to show […]
Read More The rising of the light: From Gaza to Israel: SderotShaheed (martyr, anyone dying because of the conflict) Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos Photos of Bureij from 2006 Photos of Bureij from 2008 August 21, 2009, Friday, Gaza City, The Gaza Strip, my apartment: The main event of the past 48 hours […]
Read More The rising of the light: Bureij refugee camp & a family visitClick image for an enlargement Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos August 15 & 17, 2009, Saturday & Monday, Gaza City, The Gaza Strip, my apartment: More than a few dreams, and not all of them banal: In the most satisfying I was […]
Read More The rising of the light: El Mina, the Gaza City portWell, 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 […]
Read More Soon GazaI’ve composed a message drawn from the writing and photos about recent violence in Gaza from and by two friends who live there, Ibrahem and Yousef, trapped like their 1.5 million neighbors. We’ve worked and played together periodically over the past 3 years. My composition is inspired by their reflections about Israel pummeling Gaza with […]
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Skip Schiel & Teeksa Photography 