An Arab Fourth of July, An American Ramadan

  On the Fourth of July my husband and I happened to be in Dallas, Texas, where we were visiting a young couple from Lebanon.  We have known the wife since she was a cute little seven year old.  Now she has a hospitable husband and two handsome little boys. That evening we all drove […]

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A Palestinian Poet’s Poem for Today or Any Day

  Recently, while traveling, circumstances beyond my control caused me to become uncommonly hungry.  Hunger is something I cannot endure well, because of a tendency to hypoglycemia. I have on occasions become dysfunctional, unable to think, and afterwards could not remember what I had done. But on the day I am speaking of, I just […]

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