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I opened my eyes to the world in a city with a lifeless childhood. I opened my eyes in the battlefield. Nobody told me who the soldiers were, or what occupation is. I grew up having the idea of abnormality as what is normal, and that those persons who inflict fear whenever and wherever they […]
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I grew up suddenly like a tree. Once I had a dream when I was five years old. This dream visited me again. I slept for ten minutes that night. It was hard. The medicine that the psychiatrist prescribed to me did not work. Tranquilizers had not worked for me in the past and would […]
Thursday 17th July The First Truce I wake to the news that Israel has declared a five-hour truce, beginning at 10am. The Palestinian Monetary Authority has also announced that, during these hours, the banks will open so people can receive salaries and withdraw cash. It’s a gentle morning. The movement of the crowds in the […]
He reaches behind him, over the seat, so the passengers next to me in the back of the car can put their fares into his outstretched hand. He carelessly chucks the money down beside him, with a gesture of disgust that I resent. In an attempt to get him talking, I mutter, ‘It’s a tough […]
Abdalhadi Alijla is a social and political scientist. From January 2020, he is based at the Orient Institute in Beirut (OIB) as Max Weber Stiftung postdoctoral fellow. Abdalhadi has a Ph.D. in political studies from the State University of Milan and an MA in Public Policy and Governance from Zeppelin University-Friedrichshafen, Germany. He has been […]
Atef Abu Saif is a Palestinian writer. He was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1973, to a family originally from Jaffa. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Birzeit University, a master’s degree from the University of Bradford (UK), and a P.h.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the University of […]
Talal Abu Shawish is a Palestinian writer. He was born in Nuseirat Refugee Camp in 1967, and is currently Assistant Director of the Boys Preparatory School for Refugees in Gaza. He has published three short story collections – The Rest Are Not For Sale and The Assassination of a Painting (2010), and Goodbye, Dear Prophets (2011) – as well as […]
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