Sixty-seven years ago, the Palestinians awoke to a tragedy that ravaged their lives and distorted Palestinian hopes and fears. Over 800,000 people, approximately half the population of the then British Mandate territory of Palestine, were evicted (...)
Last weekend was very cold in Edmonton, Canada. The temperature dropped to minus 30; with the wind chill, it felt like minus 37. My eyelashes froze and so did my toes inside the thick snow boots I was wearing while clearing the huge piles of snow (...)
On the 65th anniversary of the Nakba (what we Palestinians call the catastrophe of dispossession), Palestinians who were born in historic Palestine and are currently growing old in refugee camps remain determined to return to the homes and lands (...)