Human rights groups say Israeli curbs on Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron have forced thousands of them to leave homes and close businesses. B’Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said Israel had in effect expropriated central Hebron to protect some 650 Jewish settlers there. Israel had breached the Geneva [...]

Four days ago, Israeli military went into a refugee camp and a violent exchange took place between soldiers and Palestinian fighters. During the gunfight a pregnant Palestinian woman was shot and lost her child. This is how various international media reported it: A pregnant Palestinian woman lost her baby after being shot by Israeli troops [...]

“Naseem, what do you want from Starbucks?” “No, that’s ok. I don’t drink Starbucks” “Why? For Political reasons?” “I guess you could say that” “Yeah, me too but…” I’ve had this exact exchange of words with 3 different people in the past 5 months. What follows the ‘but’ is almost always amusing and includes everything [...]

It always seemed strange to me how we as a people have lacked the ability to criticize the way in which we resist. We all play for the same team for obvious historical, ethnic, cultural and religious reasons. We all have the same common goal. We all look at the occupations in the same way. [...]

Wow. Simply wow. Just a great album. Talk about changing gears. Talk about sounding more pure and more raw than ever before. Talk about finding a new take on old sound. Talk about making both simultaneously successful. Talk about not skipping a single heart beat. I think this is one of the best rock albums [...]

somewhere…in the corner of a very dark room…my childhood has curled itself into the fetal position while rapidly sucking its thumb. Despite the sad realities of Israeli occupation, you would think Hamas would give its own country’s kids a chance at a childhood instead of a monochrome world view.

Who says God doesn’t work in mysterious ways? When I came back to Jordan in December I remember it hadn’t rained for months, inciting fears of a drought. This forced the country to have a ‘national’ prayer (supplication) asking God for rain. God delivered. It actually poured for the next few days right after. The [...]

Perhaps the best critic and/or observer of the recent food poisoning cases in Jordan stemming from fish and shawarma mayo, has been Emad Hajjaj. These are some of the past few caricatures that captured my attention…