Posted by Ibi in Palestine 1 year, 3 months ago at 11:40 pm.
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The same patterns still hold true across Palestine. Just as every city in the West Bank has a handful of unique characteristics and trademarks, cities and towns in the Gaza Strip also maintain specific trademarks despite sharing numerous similarities to other regions of Palestine. Nablus’s trademarks are fruit cocktails, konafa, olive soap, and Turkish baths. Bethlehem is famous for the story of [...]
Posted by Ibi in Egypt 1 year, 3 months ago at 1:55 pm.
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Bouncing along rural roads across the North Sinai, through the barren desert landscape full of scrub brush and occasional unfinished cinder block structures, so many thoughts rattle through my head. The bus is the last of three caravaning to the Rafah border crossing, and it is full of relatively subdued folks including myself who, for [...]
Posted by Ibi in Egypt 1 year, 3 months ago at 10:09 pm.
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Sitting in the quiet and brightly colored بيت النت كف, which literally translates as “Internet House Cafe,” I can only try to put together a decent account of a long and amazing day packed with preparations for an exhausting and emotional journey in the Gaza Strip that will begin tomorrow. It’s tough to think of [...]
Posted by Ibi in Egypt 1 year, 3 months ago at 11:50 pm.
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In a large room full of fresh faces and unfamiliar names, I mingled with the crowd and chatted with whoever came my way. Despite being in a hectic and bustling city like Cairo, where it’s hard to keep both your bearing and your sanity at the same time, all of the anxiety of preparing for [...]
