Amritsar.Sharpeville.Gaza: Will It Never End?

05.20.2018 _________________________________________  Gaza is red with blood, dark in grief, mired in poverty and dysfunction, yet not without dignity. In Continue reading →

Black Swans Resist: It’s Their State, Too

04.28.2018 ________________________________________ ‘What? You’ve never seen The Maltese Falcon? I’ll lend it to you – you have to see it Continue reading →

Gaza: We Need to Let Suffering Speak

04.15.2018 _________________________________________ “We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima Continue reading →

‘How come he can’t see his own savagery?’

04.03.2016 ________________________________________________________ It’s Friday: Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter have passed; Passover approaches; in the distance Ramadan Continue reading →

‘Made Glorious by the Light of Love’

12.21.2014 _____________________ When I listen carefully, when I am attentive to the miracle of how freely blood courses through my Continue reading →

Alicia Keys: Sing Alongside Muhammad Assaf

06.30.2013 _____________________ Last week, I couldn’t restrain myself. Last week, I actually voted for a contestant on a reality TV Continue reading →

Palestine: UN Does the Right Thing

12.02.2012 _____________________ 138 in favor, 9 opposed, 41 abstentions. The yeas have it. Thursday, Palestinians took a giant step forward Continue reading →

Enlightenment and Pathos Sadly Missing

11.25.2012 _____________________ “But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof.”   Continue reading →