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!

Saturday, January 29, 2011

This Revolution is Being Televised

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Al Jazeera English: Live Stream - Watch Now - Al Jazeera English We are witnessing history. It is only a matter of time before Mubarak ste...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

All Hail the Despot

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Hung up around the Manara is this gem. "Our position is consistent A Palestinian state With Jerusalem as its capital And the Right o...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Watan 3a Watar Act

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Watan 3a Watar, performed at the Ramallah Cultural Palace last year. This particular acts sums it all: Palestine is the rather odd green p...

New Benches

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Birzeit University has around 8000 students, and yet there are only about 10 benches scattered throughout campus, which means that the major...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

PA Buss Supporters While Egypt Comes to Life

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The government ministries closed an hour earlier so that their employees could congregate in Ramallah to protest the apparent witch-hunt Al ...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Ramallah Tunisia Solidarity Rally Sabotaged by PA

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On Wednesday the 19th, at four pm, a rally was supposed to kick off at the Manara square in Ramallah. It was a rally showing solidarity with...

Al Jazeera Reveals Failure of Negotiations

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At the time of this writing, Saeb Erekat is sweating his tiny balls off on the Arabic Al Jazeera channel, gulping down water and yelling un...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Israel Destroys Araqib Village for the Ninth Time

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El Araqib is situated in the Naqab (Negev) desert, close to Bi'r Sabi' (Beersheba). Last week it was once again razed to the ground,...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Conflagration is Not the Way, Apparently

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Well. Self-immolation certainly does not have the same desired effect in other countries. Egypt witnessed a man igniting himself to expost...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Mabrook Tunisia!

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Ousted Autocrat: Zein ilAbedine Ben Ali. In power for 23 years. Dyes his hair black, wears a permanent smug look, and puts up huge airbrushe...

Vanessa Paradis Boycotts Israel

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We're confused. We don't know how to deal with our feelings right now. It's not enough that French singer Vanessa Paradis still ...

POP V

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Apparently we don't know how to take flash-free pictures The Palestine Writing Workshop (if you don't officially Like them on face...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Ken Loach Comes to Ramallah

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In coordination with each other, Yabous Productions and Philistine Films worked hard to get renowned British film maker Ken Loach to Palesti...

Second Semester (Oh No!)

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Tuesday was the first day back-let the semester thus commence. However, keeping with our timeless tradition, we'll actually drag ourselv...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Gaza Youth Breaks Out

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When we first read the manifesto almost two weeks ago, our initial reaction was nothing short of being delighted. Nothing grabs our attentio...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Jawaher Abu Rahmeh First to be Killed This Year

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Part of being such sickly cynicals is to pooh-pooh away commercialized thoughts and actions. Just because it's a new year doesn't me...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

PA Ministers Like to Steal, Israeli Ministers Like to Rape

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Moshe Katsav, former Israeli president, was found guilty of rape and sexual harrassment that were filed against him four years ago.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Shared Experience About Gaza

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Abu Yazan on the first day of the massacre: "That day I was walking in the street with a friend of mine in the middle of Gaza City…we...

2 Years Since the Horrors in Gaza

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Searching through pictures of the Gaza massacre is about as fun as staring at Tzipi Livni's bearded face on Al-Jazeera TV. It reinvoked...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Look Ma-I'm on Al-Jazeera!

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This is quite spiffing. Or spiffy. And rather prodigious. And we'll leave it at that before we go all self-congratulatory like.

Merry Christmas!

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It's been a long arduous week full of wedding preparations for one of us (her brother's) but we can finally work again on an excruci...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Good Shit

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Like the true hipster he was, Bob Marley spawned about a dozen kids. Most of them went into the music business. We only care about one, a Mr...
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