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2019 Writing Competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Olives and Occupation – by Lesley Mannering, Australia – I don’t normally even go to the shops alone, so my friends and were shocked when I told them I was off to Palestine, by myself. Going was THE best thing I ever […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Two postcards from the Walls  – by Donata Lorenzetti, Italy– Greetings from Ramallah  It’s damn hot this afternoon in Ramallah. It’s July, July 2014. An unbelievable hot month. We abandoned the chaos of the city center to reach the quietness of the […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ 2 sides of the coin  – by Leo.M Jeyaraj, Canada – By trade, I am a Physician Anesthesiologist and work in a busy tertiary teaching hospital in Canada. The Canadian population is diverse and represents every faith, colour, race and creed. […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Encounters  – by Jim Minton, United Kingdom – We stumbled into the bar to shelter from the early evening rain which had begun as we walked up from the Damascus Gate. I’d forgotten that with the time difference the English Sunday […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ A Night in Wadi Hummus  – by Faryn Borella, USA – We awaken at three in the morning to a loud knock on the doorTwenty bodies rise simultaneously from the prostration of sleepless sleepSpringing forward at the hips like cogsTo sit […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Holy Land, Damned Land  – by Ilaria Ruzza – Italy I’m Catholic by upbringing, raised up during my childhood by my beloved grandmother, a deeply religious woman who took the first plane of her life to go to the Holy Land. It […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ No Peace Under the Olive Tree   – by  Anna Walczyk – Poland For over a dozen years, every time I travel to the Middle East, and in particular to Israel and Palestine, I hear the sentence “no peace under the olive […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Palestinians Can  – by M. Pessemier – Poland Years ago, my wife and I occasionally worked in a Paris restaurant. One evening, a diner entered carrying an odd-shaped case containing a stringed instrument. On asking, we learned that this was a […]

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The Entrance for Israel’s Citizens is Forbidden: Dangerous to your Lives

 2019 writing competition – Jose Maria Cardesin – The phrase that entitles this text, and that can be read on the signs that mark the access to the segregated roads of Zone A of the West Bank, under theoretical control of the Palestinian Authority, seems to me to be a clear expression of the barriers […]

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One land, divided

2019 writing competition  – by Kirsty LG –  It’s summertime in Scotland and finally after four intensive months I feel enough distance and cooling of the air to be able to reflect on my time in Jerusalem. I’ll be returning soon as it’s to be my home for the next few years and for that […]

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How to reap Apples

 2019 writing competition – by Mahmoud Hamarsheh – If you want an Apple, you have to plant an apple tree In our environment we care about agriculture a lot, and our ancestors cared even more, they took care of trees and planted them carefully, leaving the good reaps its own good fruit. They cared more […]

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Mary Goes to Jerusalem

2019 writing competition  – by Mary Niesluchowska – How did I know I was on a flight from Poland to Israel? All those black fedoras clogging up the x-ray machine! I arrived in Tel Aviv at 3:30am where the airport seemed to be the liveliest place in town. Everything was open and there were crowds […]

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