BDS: At Least We Shall Have Spoken

03.12.2023 __”Palestinian activists have long supported the Black people’s struggle against racism,” Angela Davis, Black American academic and social activist Continue reading →

When Borders Lie Between Civilization and Barbarities**

03.20.2022 __ “ … What [extremists/Muslims] needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house – from Continue reading →

Radical Hospitality: Feasting With the Prophets

03.13.2022 __ When I moved to Beirut in 1968 one of my early assignments was to photograph people living in Continue reading →

A Democracy For Some, But Not For All

02.20.2022 __ “Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right,” I remember P. J. O’Rourke, who died Continue reading →

Bye-Bye Hasbara: It’s not about Hamas

06.06.2021 ________________________________________ Public diplomacy in Israel, known as Hasbara, is a well-known and until recently successfully deployed PR effort to Continue reading →

Jerusalem: Night of Power, Days of Rage

05.16.2021 ________________________________________ The last thing I expected this year was to be writing – on Eid Al-Fitr, the day which Continue reading →

Trump’s Abraham Accords: Gifting Oppressors, Torturers, and Tyrants

09.20.2020 ________________________________________ This week in Washington the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain signed the Abraham Continue reading →

Ismail Ajjawi: A Test of America’s Greatness

09.01.2019 ________________________________________ The bride was Hindu. The bridegroom was Muslim. The celebrant was an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Continue reading →