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A New Essay in Fikra Magazine
Dear all, I am thrilled to share that my essay A Loud and Hungry Darkness / ظلام صاخب وجائع is part of the first edition of Fikra Magazine, a new…
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Samar Batrawi
The First Five Days
The events described here take place in Ramallah between 29 March and 2 April 2002 as Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield, invading all major…
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Samar Batrawi
Dum-Dum Bullets: An Intifada Mystery
Hebron, 2001 A middle-aged shopkeeper lies on his side, one arm clutching his leg, the other waving frantically in the air. For the most part, he looks…
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Samar Batrawi
Children of Curfew
Last week, I wrote about my memory of the first night of the Israeli invasion that launched Operation Defensive Shield in March 2002, when all major…
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Samar Batrawi
Guava Leaf Pillow
The sound of a soft but eery mechanical rumble woke my father from his otherwise deep sleep. This still strikes me as odd, since nothing ever woke my…
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Samar Batrawi
Hope No Major Damage Occurred
Last week, I wrote about the first year or so of the intifada; about experiences that took place amidst some residual normalcy and mobility, despite…
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Green Gold
Extreme violence and yet an aggressive insistence on normalcy - that’s how I would describe the first eighteen months of the Second Intifada, which…
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