Verbal Rocks: Slingshot of the Mind
Preparation
Jerusalem Road is completely packed right now. It is 10pm and the only time it was like this was after the World Cup game. People are coming from the Ramallah direction and heading towards the...
IEnterrupted
8 months and counting
I want to go back to school desperately. I will become those old generation Inland Empire ...
[Interrupted mid-sentence by a friend calling to ask me what my situation was...
Checkup
The same institutions that maintain social inequity have the same root to those in the US.
Everyone is class conscious.
Educational institutions are a filter for society.
Nationalism is...
That's the Way--Earth, Wind, & Fire
Don't hesitate 'cause the world seems cold.
Staying young at heart.
Rialto Childhood
On collection day, my classmate would go around the neighborhood and search each trashcan. Her name was Candy in English. She spoke Spanish. And she was known for her drooling problem.
In third...
Ramallah the Bubble
In the next few days I will begin to diagram what this place is really like. Until then, for you out in the diaspora desperate to see what Ramallah has become, watch this satirical video placed at a...
Of Sirens
I was late. I rushed from obligation to the bus where my friends awaited. They sat next to each other, and across the aisle was an aged man whose fist embraced the polished wood of his cane. I sat...
Echo
We shoot our prayers from the cobblestone floors of time as bullets into God's eye.
We are the inheritors.
Of the stake upon which flesh roasted under the scorn of gold pleated kings.
And...
Critical Recklessness
No one ever said that this journey would be some savior mission. Or that it would be magical. Reality is harsh, and more than anything, one must learn what is on the ground.
I understand you wish...
Exiled within Skin
The hanging wired lights quivered in the summer breeze which carried with it peanut shells, the scent of cotton candy, and the shout of men stomping and dancing in century old tradition. The...
Chemical Hair Straightening Politics
Before I cut my hair and created an afro, people thought my Arabic was perfect and that I had resided here in the Occupied Territories all my life. But when I embraced my curls and the nest that...
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