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(Sami Kishawi)

Diaries: Live from Palestine

"The prisoners are the living martyrs"

Shahd Abusalama
Gaza City
11 October 2011
A daughter of a former prisoner who spent 33 days on hunger strike writes from the Gaza Strip, urging international solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails.

The story of the watermelon and the forty prisoners

Ameer Makhoul
Gilboa Prison
19 September 2011
Palestinian political prisoner Ameer Makhoul writes about a recent “watermelon party” amongst fellow prisoners, and the struggle for liberation that continues.

Weddings without a groom; only in Gaza

Rana Baker
Gaza City
15 September 2011
The outside world, the checkpoint-less expanse, doesn’t know why wrinkles map our faces so early. Our tears are different, and so is their cause. So, too, are the causes of our moments of happiness.

Throwing rocks at the occupation -- and Western prejudice too

Linah Alsaafin
Nabi Saleh
11 August 2011
I asked a few Nabi Saleh children why they throw rocks. Their responses were simple: We don’t want the army here.

Israel's prison walls cannot keep us apart

Fidaa Elaydi
Dallas
28 July 2011
Fidaa Elaydi’s uncle has been imprisoned in Israel for more than twenty years, and his family in Gaza have not been able to visit him for the past six.

The most powerful weapon is our humanity

Dina Elmuti
13 July 2011
As she exits Palestine, Dina Elmuti reflects on the oppressive apparatus that surrounds her, and on the growing global struggle to break through it with something stronger, our humanity.

Gaza blockade keeps Saleh away from sea

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
14 July 2011
Abu Ayman Kabaja and his family have worked in Gaza’s fishing industry for many years but now their fishing boat stays on dry land.

There's more to Gaza than broken slabs of concrete

Sami Kishawi
Gaza City
7 July 2011
Returning to Gaza for a family visit after years away, Sami Kishawi reflects on the Gaza you see and don’t see through the media’s eye.

Flying kites before the tear gas

Linah Alsaafin
30 June 2011
Every child has a right to a childhood. The Nabi Saleh children are denied this right. Linah Alsaafin describes one Friday afternoon in the occupied West Bank village.

Gaza family exiled to Syria and Libya looks back

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
21 June 2011
Abdelhai al-Khaldi and his family were among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the 1967 war, or who emigrated afterwards in search of work. Al-Khaldi and his wife spoke of their life of displacement to The Electronic Intifada contributor Rami Almeghari.

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