Beirut protests Israel’s attack on Gaza aid convoy
Thousands take to streets of Beirut to protest Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla
Photography
It’s incredible that scenes like this still exist in an age where I can photograph them with a camera on my mobile phone.
Book review: "A World I Loved"
This is my review of Wadad Makdisi Cortas’ memoir, A World I Loved. I highly recommend this book for people outside the Middle East who wish to better understand this region’s recent history. Book review: “A World I Loved” http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10869.shtml “This is my story, the story of an Arab woman,” Wadad Makdisi Cortas states in [...]
Mohammad Othman
Last Tuesday a dear friend of mine was traveling back to his home in the occupied West Bank after a trip to Europe. He had been visiting Norway where he was meeting with senior officials in his capacity as an organizer with Stop the Wall, a Palestinian non-governmental organization that campaigns against Israel’s illegal wall [...]
Nahr al-Bared protest in Tripoli
Residents from the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon gathered on 16 September to protest the Lebanese government’s halting of planned reconstruction of the camp that was destroyed in 2007 in a battle between the Lebanese army and militants from Fatah al-Islam. Hundreds of refugees from the camp and their supporters gathered in Tripoli, [...]
Israeli army fires tear-gas at reporter live on air
This is from Al-Jazeera English. If you don’t get the channel at home, you can download a program called livestation (for mac or pc) and stream it over the web.
Ramadan in Nahr al-Bared
A Palestinian family prepares for the iftar meal outside of prefabricated homes in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.
Wlad al-mukhayem/Kids of the camp
I can never accurately express my admiration for children in Palestinian refugee camps. By now I’ve been to most of the dozens of camps around the Arab world, and there is something consistent in all of them. It’s as if from day one children are born with an understanding of their family’s more than six [...]
Feedback to "baseless organ theft" article
I’ve been getting a lot of feedback from various folks in response to my recent article about a Swedish journalist’s baseless organ theft accusations. Most of it has been in good taste, but certainly not all. I’m happy to see that people are discussing it at least. One email that stuck out sent from a [...]
Israelis boycott!
Israelis have now called for a boycott of the giant furniture/home products retailer IKEA and car manufacturer Volvo. This should really put pressure on Sweden to abandon its policy of free speech and condemn the irresponsible organ theft article. Except someone might want to inform the boycott’s organizers that IKEA is actually registered in Holland [...]
Three more tunnel workers killed today in Gaza
Another three Palestinians were killed today in an Israeli strike on tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border. The young tunnel workers are paid little to risk their lives and dig tunnels that serve as a lifeline to supply Gaza’s population of 1.5 million with food, medicines, gasoline, and other essential items long denied to them by [...]
Baseless organ theft accusations will not bring Israel to justice
Baseless organ theft accusations will not bring Israel to justice http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10730.shtml by Matthew Cassel On Friday I was invited to appear on Press TV (Iran’s international English-language satellite channel) alongside Donald Bostrom, a Swedish journalist who authored the recent article about the Israeli army stealing the organs of young Palestinian men it had killed in [...]
Woman at Arafat's funeral
While organizing my images for my portfolio site I came across this image from 2004. It’s always nice when I find an old image of mine that moves me as much as the day I took the image.
Let us know
Let us know the name of every person killed fighting for what they believe in. Let us hear why they risked their life so the world would hear their message. Let us see the images of their death to know how it happened. Let us never forget them, any of them.
"The war in Gaza" multimedia feature
Photos by Stefania Mizara. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYoQu8mtS3w&hl=en&fs=1&]
CNN video of nighttime invasion
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv60QkqpAIE&hl=en&fs=1&] The above frightening “amateur video” was shown on CNN International. The video reminds me of every single night that I spent living in the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, except it’s missing the gun shots, percussion grenades and sounds of Israeli bulldozers plowing into shops on the main street. The below [...]
Boycott impact
I was asked by more than one person the other night at the University of Chicago about the impact of the boycott movement. One person in particular, who was very active in the movement against apartheid South Africa, was surprised to hear that there was an active movement now in place against Israel for its [...]
Interview on worldview
Check out an interview with me on WBEZ Chicago that aired today: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=33092