It is a disturbing indication of my acclimation to the militarization of everyday life here that when a group of Apache helicopters began bearing down overhead in a closed village where no one is allowed to be on the streets, what first came to my mind were Lauri Anderson lyrics and second, whether there are batteries in my camera. Read more about Strange birds above Abu Dis 

As a Palestinian-American I enjoy the rights of my country of citizenship. This makes it difficult for me to understand what it must be like to watch another nation’s tanks roll into your community and destroy everything in their path—your car, your neighbor’s house, electrical poles, gardens and community businesses. Read more about A letter from Oakland 

While hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are currently at risk for infectious diseases, still lack running water, electricity, or a working sewage system, and while the IDF is still denying relief workers access to some areas (mainly around Jenin), Israel is celebrating its Independence Day. Read more about Disturbing parallels and unbearable dissonances 

He called to me from his doorway: ‘Please, come and look at my house. I want you to see what they have done to my home!’ Read more about Short story from Jenin refugee camp 

Photograph 1. Rows of silvery, green olive trees in a carpet of wild poppies. And a tank, like a big, angry, metal beetle, its gun pointing at the refugee camp. Read more about Snapshots: In and around Jenin refugee camp 

So quiet in Ramallah these days, but from time to time we hear explosions because the army is blowing the doors off of ministries, schools, kindergartens, development agencies and houses. Tonight, it is exceptionally noisy. Read more about Independence day 

How ironic is it that the only ‘democracy’ in the Middle East, places the residents of its ‘eternal capital’ under curfew for an undetermined period of time, while it celebrates its glorious 54th anniversary as a state? Read more about 'Independence' day: the view from Ramallah 

‘I’m at the edge of the camp right now; we’re hemmed in by two APCs and a lot of soldiers. We were trying to help just a handful of people take a gurney loaded with food and water across a destroyed road to get to people who need it. The soldiers have stopped us and they’re not giving us permission to pass.’ Read more about Eyewitness Jenin: 'Post-apocalyptic' devastation 

On the evening of April 3, 2002, US Federal Embassy Security Agents rescued me from Bethlehem. The entire episode felt comical. And it pretty well summed up my impressions of the US’s involvement in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Read more about Rescue from Bethlehem - April 3, 2002 (epilogue)