Occupation is the act of occupying. As in occupying land and the people who live on that land. Specifically, it’s to take possession of a place, most likely by military invasion and then control that place (and its people) over an amount of time. Sometimes a very extended amount of time. Palestine has been under occuputaion since 1967. That’s why […]
In May of 2012, I will be traveling to the city of El-Bireh, Palestine, on the outskirts of Ramallah – about 9 miles north of Jerusalem. I will be traveling there with my mom, who was born there, as was my late father. My mom and dad married in 1962 in Palestine and moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where my dad […]
My uncles, Anees and Ramzy, with my dad, Adeeb, in front of their family home in El-Bireh, Palestine, just outside Ramallah, in the West Bank, Palestine, 1955.
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