Yes, I am trying to make up for my long hiatus. So much to blog about; so little time. Below are links to blogs I like and a couple of articles I wrote while my blog was sleeping.
International blogs
Doshkaya - “a startled Anglo-Arab woman living and working in the Middle East.”
I’m a huge fan of D.’s. She’s the only female Arab blogger who regularly hopscotches between Gaza, Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon and Dubai. She is funny, perceptive, smart, compassionate and a gifted writer. Also a talented cook (check out the recipes) and an excellent photographer (although she broke her last camera while walking around the Beaufort castle in south Lebanon).
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Haifa graffiti
Nizo’s Faux-Dor Guide to Palestine, the Autumn 2067 edition. If you have not read the series, then you have missed out on pure genius.
- Part one – Modern history
- Part two – People, language
- Part three - Religion
- Part four – Food
On a more serious note, do read Nizo’s On Zionism, Arabs and Democracy – it’s an interview he gave to a grad student in Middle Eastern studies.
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Mohamed, a.k.a. The Traveler Within, has written about our trip up to the Galilee and the Golan Heights in a post that I have committed to match. It is pretty interesting to see Israel through the eyes of an Egyptian.
Local bloggers
Allison of An Unsealed Room has moved shop to PJM.
The fabulous Noorster is back! Her new blog is called Shutterfool.
Daniella Cheslow, who sometimes writes for the JPost, has a blog called The Truth Herzl. I particularly recommend her post on visiting and writing about the Hebron area; it’s called The importance of being open.
Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman have started a blog called South Jerusalem. For those of my readers who thought there was no such thing as a left-wing religious Israeli Jew, go on over to SoJo for an education in the complexities of contemporary Israeli society.
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A couple of articles I wrote for PJM:
On the FBI’s investigation of Ehud Olmert
On the Free Gaza armada - a.k.a. the media event that wasn’t
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