Razanisms - رزانيّــــات

one year has passed since nahr el bared refugee camp has reopened. well, sort of. since a fraction of the original population was allowed to return to their destroyed homes after the lebanese army attacked the camp, looted the remaining items of value, and killed, detained, and tortured a number of palestinians. a-films has a [...]

I made it back home to Nablus today, through the Sheikh Hussein Bridge. This bridge is much quieter than Malak Hussein in the south as it is mostly for tourists. I was pleasantly surprised that most of my traveling companions today were not tourists, however. Most of them were Palestinians from 1948. Many of [...]

Whenever I’m in Jordan I find myself confronted by thoughts of dual occupation. Of two wars. Of two significant refugee populations. And of the two powers most responsible for these problems: Americans and Zionist Jews (of course originally we can blame the British too). This map that appeared on Palestine Think Tank accompanied by an [...]

I’m more than halfway home and I’m checking out what is going on in Falasteen right now; it seems that things have not changed much in my absence. Not that I should be surprised. This is daily life in Palestine. This morning Israeli Terrorist Forces (ITF) invaded Al Fara’a refugee camp near Nablus: Palestinian sources said that [...]

I’m still reeling from the experience of not only coming back to the U.S. in the midst of a racist, offensive presidential campaign, but also the ways in which this affected the American Studies Association (ASA) conference. Normally this is a conference I look forward to. Some of the smartest people-and some of the most [...]