baha’a if you are reading this…

…or if anyone who knows where baha’a is right now: please sms me or send me an email. immediately. your jordan cell is not working and i’m very worried about your border crossing!

this loss is almost too great to bear…

Historic Palestinian leader George Habash dies in Amman
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AMMAN (AFP) — George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), died on Saturday in Amman at the age of 81, an official Jordanian source told AFP.
Habash stepped down as head of the Damascus-based PFLP in July 2000 after having led [...]

international day of solidarity with palestinians

Take Action: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, November 29
The photo-op which was the Annapolis peace conference is over.
The State Department defined the conference as “a launching point for negotiations leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state and the realization of Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President [...]

Nahr al-Bared refugees’ joyless Ramadan

Nahr al-Bared refugees’ joyless Ramadan
The anarchist video collective “a-films” presents a 20-minute film entitled “Tragedy Without Borders,” produced by refugees from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp during a video-workshop held in Baddawi Refugee Camp near Trablous (Tripoli), northern Lebanon. For two weeks, a-films has trained a [...]

now tutu is censored?

what next? every day i think we could not sink any lower…and then i’m yet again surprised and dismayed…

clipped from www.insidehighered.com

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the prize for his nonviolent opposition to South Africa’s apartheid regime, was deemed unworthy of appearing at St. Thomas because of comments he made criticizing Israel — comments [...]

yet again?

Unbelievable! Didn’t airport security beef up its radar on this since last summer’s incident?

clipped from www.naharnet.com

Lebanese Police Arrest Israeli ‘By Simple Luck’
Lebanese Police has arrested an Israeli man holding a German passport “by simple luck,” it was reported Saturday.

Al Akhbar, who carried out the report, said Daniel Moussa Sharon was handed over [...]

Moshkila ketir

Today was a day of frustration. I spent most of the day working in the University of Jordan’s library, which is quite good. After teaching at Al Quds in Abu Dies where their library consists of a very small room and few resources I was delighted to see so many things, including a depository [...]

Waging Peace

One of my biggest critiques of films I’ve seen in the U.S. that oppose the war (or movements) is the focus on U.S. casualities. Of course, I know why this is done, but it doesn’t make me like it any less.
The American Friends’ Service Committee has an incredible, short (2 minute) documentary [...]

Eid Mubarak!

Last night I was in a meeting with an UNRWA colleague listening to the imam in the mosque down the street. I was asking my friend to see if Eid al Fitr would be today or tomorrow. Because the Islamic calendar is based on a lunar system, it depends on the Islamic courts [...]

Wondering

sleeping beauty…diala Originally uploaded by marcynewman.
This face, the face of Diala, is one of the faces, spirits, people I love the most in Phalasteen. I love the way I hear her getting ready for school in the morning, deciding which pants work best with her [...]