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Soldiers in Sarra

Soldiers in Sarra

November 20, 2010 No Comments

BY: NISREEN GHANEM On one winter night, Israeli soldiers came to our village with dogs.  They began searching for something but we didn’t know what. They reached our house at 2:30 in the morning.  They jumped over the gate, then they knocked on the door loudly.  We were not sleeping because we had heard bombs ...

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Olive trees and Iftar

Olive trees and Iftar

September 5, 2010 No Comments

One of my Advanced English students, Nasreen (she’s wearing the white headscarf in this photo), invited me for Ramadan iftar (dinner) with her family on September 5th.  She lives in a village near Nablus, called Sarra.  We ate on their second floor porch with a beautiful view of the magnificent sunset and the hilly, desert ...

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Reflections

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