PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________I Found Myself in Palestine– by Khadija Jones, UK – Perplexed by an identity crisis as a British born Muslim with a mix of Eastern and Western values and searching for a greater purpose I embarked on my journey to Israel and […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Knowing Becomes Understanding: 8 Days in Occupied Palestine – by Christa Christaki, Australia –  How can I express both the heartbreak and happiness I feel since spending eight days in occupied Palestine? How can I convey the paradoxical emotions of anger and […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________This entry will not win. – Nofel Nawras, UK – These lands that appear to be called by this name and that are in truth, the one land, Mother Earth. There will be no peace, in Israel, Palestine or anywhere else. There […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Understanding the landscape – Sandra Manzella, Italy – Here we are, silently scanning the landscape. We’re standing in the shadow of the UN observation point in Jerusalem, from which we can have a good view of the Old City and of East […]

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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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