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Jordanians have broken their silence. A lot of them took their frustration to the streets in the form of organized demonstrations. This one was on Sunday. It started at the fourth circle and ended in front of the Egyptian Embassy. The theme was anger directed towards the Egyptian leader because of the Rafah boarder, and more [...]

  
“We were sitting in the dark, oblivious to what is happening outside” says my friend Shorouq in Gaza. “My parents closed all the doors and asked us not leave. We could hear wailing, screaming and the constant stream of bombs. We are simply waiting to die.” She continued before the line was cut off. That [...]

Words fail to describe my feelings… so I won’t say anything…
 
This is one of my favorite poems.. Marcel Khalifeh turned it into a song… It is so  harsh yet so tender… 
 

تصبحون على وطن
عندما يذهب الشهداء الى النوم أصحو
وأحرسهم من هواة الرِّثاء

 
أقول لهم :
تُصبحون على وطن،
من سحابٍ ومن شجرٍ،
من سراب وماء

أهنئُهُم بالسلامةِ من حادثِ المُستحيل
ومن قيمة [...]

Mawtini” My homeland” was unofficially the anthem used by Palestinians, written by Ibrahim Touqan and composed by the Lebanese composer Mohammad Flaifel. This should not be confused with Biladi, the official anthem.
 
Mawtini
My homeland, My homeland
Majesty and beauty, sublimity and splendor,
Are in your hills, are in your hills

Life and deliverance, pleasure and hope
Are in your air, [...]

My dear friend N. has been talking me into helping her in her drive to collect food for some poor community in Jordan, she thought of a Palestinians refugee camp. The effort of convincing me took more effort than the process of gathering the food… She would talk orphans and I would strike back with [...]

Finally in Amman, The weather is absolutely gorgeous…
In the few hours I have been here, it seems to me the only thing people are talking about is Arafat. No wonder, it IS a very important issue. Since I came across an article called Palestine: facing the unthinkable in Arab News on November 5, issue. And [...]

I have been watching this Ramadan series on TV it is called he Palestinian Relocation (Al-taghreebeh falastinieh). I started because I heard from three older people that they REFUSE to watch it! It is a very nice series that describes the good and the bad in the life of one family in some village in [...]