Life on Bir Zeit Campus

At the time of writing I lie here in the giant bathtub, wiggling my foamy toes in pure unadulterated bliss. The water is scalding, but the s...

For some reason, this was saved as a draft when it was supposed to be published a couple of weeks ago. Eagle eyes come in handy. May 25th wa...

I graduated from Stupid to PLEASEGODSHUTMEUPNOW All we can ever hear whenever Abbashole opens his mouth is a lot of Frankensteinian grunts a...

Spain, that slice of heaven that keeps on producing male eye candy, is taking a leaf out of the Arab Spring revolutions. Beginning on May 15...

No we didn't watch it. It wasn't featured on our things to do list. But we read a few articles, watched Omar Barghouti summing it al...

Fadi Quran has a face to his name, and he's studying for his MA at Birzeit University. Which makes us friends since you know. Anyway, D ...

Just yesterday I was reading the genius Roald Dahl's book The Twits. I gave it to a friend some time ago to encourage her to read, who t...

Oh, there  they are! Turns out that they were not just a hunger striking one-off group intoxicated by the successes of  the revolutions of E...

This made us clog up with tears. The man videoing the whole thing is repeatedly yelling at the crowd not to get too close thinking that ther...

As a Nakba commemoration day, it was fine. As a third intifada, it was nonexistent, but that's also fine. At the Qalandiya checkpoint, a...

Every year for the past 62 years, there has always been a Nakba commemoration day. May 15th marks the Israeli "War of Independence Day...

We never knew there was so much that can be done before 11 am on a Friday morning. Usually we wake up around early afternoon, but today we w...