New Year’s Lesson

New Year’s Lesson

01/01/2024Like most Gazans, I had to avail myself of solar cells at a generous neighbor’s house that made it possible for me and others to charge our cellphones. At my neighbor’s house, we were all equal: the doctor and the engineer, the young and the old. Every...

A Continental Survival Strategy 

A Continental Survival Strategy 

I arrived in Sao Paulo, my safe haven, two weeks ago. For the first time in my life, I know what it means to feel “out of place.” For the first time in my life, I don't know how to deal with my sorrow and defeat.  On January 19, 2016, I arrived in Sudan. I was...