Life on Bir Zeit Campus

A Regular Ode to the Hardships and Joy of Living as expatriates of our Countries of Citizenship in the Holy Land...as Falastiniyyas!

Friday, April 30, 2010

Brief Break from Papers and the Like

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Summer courses are still on, and the semester has been extended by one week. Last day of exams on the 29th! Let the countdown begin! The BBC...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Who Said BZU Doesn't Have Any Extra-Curricular Activities?

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That would be us. In a way, these events are not extra-curricular but more like..events! The second annual Marketing Day was held April 28th...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Na'vis R Us!

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Countless of articles have been written about the record-breaking movie Avatar and its parallelism with the Palestinians under occupation. H...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Fashion Fugs

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New feature peeps! This is to chronicle the 'whats-in' at BZU. And it'll be strictly limited to snarking at only the female biza...

The Facebook Status Making the Rounds on Everyone's Status

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By everyone, we mean of course the people we had to bribe in order for them to accept us as friends and who are predominantly Palestinian/Ar...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Targeted Citizen

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This video by Adalah is gold. We're greatly interested in the Palestinians living in the 1948 region. Not as a different species, but a...
Monday, April 19, 2010

LARGEST MUSAKHAN EVERRRR

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Pictures! Just look at those guys gorging themselves! Sa7tein ya 3alam. Oh and 500 chickens were sacrificed for this feat. We love them chic...

Bits and Bobs

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The largest musakhan dish in the whole wide world was made today, in the village of Arourah in the Ramallah district. That's 3arourah. W...

Pole Dancing is Empowering

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It makes women feel powerful, it makes them feel respected, it makes them feel like they're on top, it makes them feel mighty, paramoun...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Ramallah Rally against Racist Order

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Nice alliteration no? Flipping over to the al-Jazeera Live channel, we saw people congregated around the Manara. Finally, something to show ...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Ethnic Cleansing is a Law Now!

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The Israeli military forces have passed an extremely racist doctrine which states that everyone in the West Bank must have an Israeli issued...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Co-Joined Babies Die

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Well this is heart-wrenching. Retal and Ritaj Abu-Asi passed away today. The twins from Gaza were transferred to King Abdullah Aziz Medial C...

POP II

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April 9th was the second Poetry of Palestine night, held at the cute little Cafe la Vie for the second time. The first POP was in February 1...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Ramblings

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Back a few days after Easter break, and we have no desire to do anything whatsoever but to sleep sleep sleep. Damn April. Our workload has i...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Festive Birzeit

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On Monday we walked through the gates to find a circus awaiting us. Flags, banners, flyers, and posters covered nearly every square inch of ...

Land Day & Global BDS Day

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Palestinians commemorated the 34th anniversary of what became to be known as Land Day. In 1976 six Palestinian men were shot and killed by I...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Links and Rants

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Na3m, the Arabs are at it again- (We Need Order, Arab Summit)- and we don't have anything at all to say on this subject that hasn't ...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Good Shit

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OBAMA NATION (clever play on words, no?) We don't know why some Palestinians were so optimistic with the election of President Obama. US...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Ubiquitous Billboard

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That is the smile...of a first time rapist. Don't believe us? Take a closer look:
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Semantic Nature

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We learn new things every day. In one of our classes-- Cultural Studies: Modern and Contemporary European Civilization (a university require...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

The First Martyr of the Yet to Materialize "Intifada"

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16 year old Muhammad Qadus was shot in the chest by a live bullet in Iraq Burin, Nablus today. He died shortly after arriving at the hospita...
Friday, March 19, 2010

They Say: We've Explained Our Position...Now Get Out

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What is this conflict all about? Religion? Land? Palestinians have no problem with religion. This may sound ground-breaking, but we are NOT ...
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