Early Thursday morning (the morning the Encounter trip began), as I was brushing my teeth and blow-drying my hair, I practiced the only Arabic phrases I knew, being sure to put emphasis on the breathy “h” sounds before the guttural one. I watched myself mouth the words in the mirror, anticipating what the next few […]
I’ll bet many of those reading this blog check the news once a day to see what the news is in Israel/Palestine. For some of you, your homepage is the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, or Al-Jazeera. I’ll bet many of you are thinking about the flotilla, or accusations about border violence. Every day there […]
My blogging ethic has been seriously out of whack for the last few weeks, and I apologize for that. Its not just having a full schedule that is causing my absence on the blogosphere. Its just that I’m having a harder time processing things here—in a totally different way than in London. I was having […]
