November 20, 2010
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 […]
September 5, 2010
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. Â She lives in a village near Nablus, called Sarra. Â We ate on their second floor porch with a beautiful view of the magnificent sunset and the hilly, desert […]
