When I heard that two bombs had exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, my heart sank. Please, please don’t be an Arab-American. Please, please don’t be one of us. I know this isn’t...
What just happened? First, President Barack Obama landed in Tel Aviv—he stepped onto the tarmac, said “Shalom” and the crowd went wild. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers saluted him and...
“What is the purpose of your stay in Israel?” For outsiders, the Israeli occupation of Palestine starts at Ben Gurion Airport. If you are Israeli, welcome home. Go through customs, get your...
by Anna Lekas Miller Minutes before the ceasefire, Israeli F-16s were still dropping bombs on Gaza. Still, at 9 PM exactly—the time that Egypt, Hamas and Israel agreed that the ceasefire...
by Anna Lekas Miller On Monday night, Egypt brokered a tentative truce between Israeli and Palestinian factions—who, after five days of cross-border clashes that killed 6 Palestinians and injured...
On Friday something terrible happened in Lebanon—a car bomb exploded in Beirut’s Achrafieh neighborhood killing eight people, and injuring more than one hundred others. Soon, it became clear that...
On Sunday, 35 militants attacked a border post with automatic gunfire and grenades in the Sinai Peninsula—killing 16 Egyptian soldiers, and injuring seven others. After attacking the soldiers, the...
If someone were to have a heart attack in Gaza, the ambulances might not come. Due to the current fuel crisis in Gaza, one third of the ambulances have completely run out of fuel—the other...
Khader Adnan is a 33 year-old Palestinian baker and master’s candidate in economics at Birzeit University. He lives in Arrabeh—a small village in the Occupied West Bank, just outside of Jenin...
On January 1st, Nigerian President Goodluck Johnathan removed an essential fuel subsidy in the country, making not only the price of fuel, but also the price of any and all consumer goods transported...
