From Hasan in Rafah:
1.45am: "I am watching BBC and CNN. I can't sleep. There are lots of explosions and their planes strike from time to time"
"Don't worry. Courageous people die only once while the coward people die several times"
6.50pm: "I have 3 sisters one of them live in Gaza. I tried to call her but unfortunately all the people call their relatives. I texted her but they got my sms after two hours. 3 brothers from Barbekh family, five people from another family in their car, 3 paramedics were murdered as the nasty occupation [forces] pounded them. No one is safe anywhere anytime in gaza strip. Lots of people were alive just at this hour yesterday"
7.20 pm: "You know I was so depressed. I looked at my kids and strange thoughts came in my mind. Two days ago I bought them paints and brushes. [My daughter] painted lots of fruits and I taught her their meaning in english. She is very cute [my two sons] are so sweet too. They laugh a lot. [One son] is speaking strange language. No one can translate it. I hope you come and see them later when it is safer"
things that have caught my eye
- Hummus: The Rap
- Hard Times Are Jamming the Ashrams
- I Don’t Have A Surname. Do You?
- Empire! v. Liberty!
- Apartheid for Dummies
- Breakdance breaks out in the Gaza Strip
- When Stereotypes Collide: the Persian Jews of Beverly Hills
- In Ramallah, art imitates men’s minds
- The Legacy of Colorism Reflects Wounds of Racism That Are More Than Skin-Deep
- Another smooth criminal: Lebanese martyr culture
- How can YouTube survive?
- Room for thought
- Bradford reflects on many shades of Englishness
- Poems from Guantanamo: "Will Ya Ever Go Jihad Again?"
- A Fine Art of Queueing
- الفقر في البحرين- ضارب إفلاس
- The 'thing' with airplane crashes
- Finding My Goddess
- Hip-hop's collective call to arms
- OMG! Black People!
comments
selected posts
- memories of a meltdown
- you know you've been in the arab world too long when...
- falling between the lines
- the anti-freak-out filter
- a mulher está dançando
- of insomnia, elegies, and al khansa'
- ratking
- unguided
- home clean home
- on visiting, and not belonging
- venice
- from the highbrow to the eyebrow
- catharsis, and communal emotion
- the problem with arabic?
- the problem with english!
- staying within a box in order to think outside it
- stepmother tongues
- mr white and mr black
- 'if you're british, then how can i understand you?'
- arabic v. english
- translation as negotiation - or learning to lose my voice
- the icing on the cake...
- the vegetable call
- the poet, the translator, and the author
- in loving memory
- neutral language?
- hindi nahi maloom!
- three hits and a miss
- shaikh mohammed sabsab and sa'sa'a bin sohan
- shaikh maitham al bahrani
- comfort food
- ma fee english, baba...
- a week of bizarre conversations
- poetic injustice
- not just uncertainty, but indecision!
- defending uncertainty
- p is for...
- infidel saliva
1 comments:
Listen, u want to stop it, make hamas disappear, instead of whining you can bring a happier life to you and your family. U can confront the hamas yourself, or you can inform Israeli Army where hamas people are hiding.
All israel army wants is to stop attacks on south israel.
So its up to you. You want to suffer or you want to help israelis finish with hamas as soon as possible and finish with all this unpleasant procedure.
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