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Love under apartheid
Palestinians Louay and Areen at their wedding. August 25, 2013, Jordan Love is never sure to go smoothly, but at least you’re not in Palestine where love can get a whole lot more complicated. Love is...
View ArticleGaza family to daughter studying abroad, ‘We do miss you Baba, but don’t come’
I’m a third-generation Palestinian refugee, originally from Beit-Jerja, a Palestinian village in what is called now ‘Israel’. I lived my entire life in the Gaza Strip until I won a scholarship to do my...
View ArticleWe, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, have been suffering from a slow death...
I always repeat that every experience or feeling we Palestinians possess is an outcome from our threatened identity. I had stayed in Europe for the last 6 months within an education exchange program...
View ArticleI have been looking for a home since I came to this world
Being born as a refugee is a destiny that has always been the main factor in shaping each step of my life. Since my first steps in this unjust world, my grandmother who fled her homeland Beith Jirja at...
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‘Being a former prisoner’s daughter has instilled in me an unstoppable...
Palestinian prisoners from across the political spectrum have pledged to join a hunger strike led by imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Bargouthi set to begin today, Palestinian Prisoners Day. Prisoners...
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Living away from Gaza
They keep saying to me that I will get used to the fact that I am forced not to have my parents physically around. But no, I am entering my 6th year of living far away from them and my brain is unable...
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An intersectional feminist movement needs to prioritize decolonization
I was born in Jabalia refugee camp which is the biggest in the Gaza Strip. It is the camp where most of the civic disobedience and “intifada” has emerged. As a woman, I consider that my luck was by my...
View Article75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Gaza is my prison
Israel marked the 75th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz last week, the Nazi death camp where the German government murdered more than one million people during the Holocaust, hosting...
View ArticleThere’s no place like home
I remember my happiness doubled when I learned I could bring one of my parents with me. I am 16 years old, it’s 2010 and I’m about to leave the Gaza Strip for the first time. I have a permit to exit...
View ArticleThe politics of mental health in Palestine
World Mental Health Day was earlier this month on October 10, a day to raise awareness around mental health to support those seeking care. As always, Palestinian mental health needs continue to be...
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