Palestine Blogs

Lots of antique shops around Nablus. They have specialized buyers that travel to all the neighboring villages to value and buy old items and family heirlooms. Dusty shop walls literally overflowing...

I was delighted to be asked to write a guest blog for Alexander McNabb's blog. This is his second blog and expands on the realities and background behind his recently published book Olives - A...

Nabulsi women are among the strongest women I know.  A Nabulsi woman of my age is living a life very different from my own. 9 times out of 10 she is married with at least three children. A...

The desire to make money, regardless of the means, is well served by the simultaneous existence of the need to make ends meet. This is also helpfully facilitated by controlling the flow of products...

Warm, doughy flat bread topped with cooked onions, summac*, roasted chicken and almonds... drenched... practically dripping with pure home grown olive oil. Tear at it with slippery fingers, olive...

A form of advertising that's gaining popularity in Nablus. Now that's my idea of a yummy car ;)

If my students have learned nothing else, they have learned that Miss Sara's favorite food is maqloubeh. It's been on their worksheets, slipped into their readings, used as essay topics and inserted...

100 chapters. 100 stories that have altered me. Some very little while others with an impact that will never be erased. It's always been about Palestine. It's always been about trying to highlight...

They've lost their novelty haven't they? The checkpoints I mean. Isn't everyone just about over it by now? I'm not speaking in terms of big ideological principles either. I'm not talking about...

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Next to my school is one of the few parks in Nablus. It could be beautiful. But it's not. Carpeted with trash and broken glass, most of the jungle gym facilities are broken or falling apart with...

Update: Samar's operation was successful. God bless.   A quick update for everyone who's been following the #SaveSamar campaign. She arrived in Italy on Saturday and is being operated on...

I don't generally enjoy fiction novels that take place in the Middle East. I find that the culture is badly misrepresented, the politics over simplified and the endings too neatly tied up to ever...

She went on with her story, deftly slicing courgettes into discs as the children were in the other room, supposedly doing their homework.  The pot bubbled quietly on the stove. 'I just...

Ili Kan. One of my favorite sheesha places in Nablus. More and more funky little places cropping up. Cannot get this pic upright for some reason Awesome painted ceiling

They're called 'The 40'. The 40 coldest days in Nablus. Stretching from end of December til beginning of February when temperatures drop to about 3 °C and it feels like it's always...