I had the opportunity to attend a presentation by the brilliant Palestinian journalist and photographer Mohammed Omer which was properly named Welcome to Hell. He demonstrated the the situation in Gaza, the Israeli war crimes, and his experience as a journalist working under the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the abuses and assault he was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’
Welcome to Hell: Mohammed Omer
Posted in Media Monitoring, tagged Allenby Bridge, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli-occupied territories, Mohammed Omer, Netherlands, Palestine, Palestinian people, War crime on November 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Back to School, Gaza Style
Posted in Media Monitoring, tagged Back to School, Gaza, Martyr, Palestine, Student on January 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Text Reads: “Martyr Student: Ahmed Ziad Al-Absi, 6th Grade”
Photo courtesy of Al Baath Newspaper.
Palestinian Scarf, Resistance ‘a la mod’
Posted in General Nonsense, State of the Republic, tagged Arab Identity, Che Guevara, Damascus, fahionista, fashion, Freedom Fighters, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian Scarf, resistance, scarf, Syria on December 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Picture taken from a magazine ad for a local radio station.
Today, you can hardly walk the streets of Damascus without passing by quite a few young men and women wearing Palestinian scarves, which at one point became a symbol of the resistance and the “Fida’ees”, a symbol of freedom fighters and an ever lingering dream [...]












