“Empires have fallen. The Berlin Wall fell, political apartheid in South Africa did end, and although in neither of these cases were these putative conclusions by any means the end of the story, they are testaments to the fact that, under the force of coordinated international and local action, Israeli apartheid will also end. The question is, when and how? Where in the narrative do we now stand?”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“What do you say to the children for whom the Red sea won't part?”
― Rifqa
― Rifqa
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”
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“And yet the pressure is again on Palestinians to tell the human story that will educate and enlighten others and so allow for the conversion of the repentant Westerner, who might then descend onto the stage if not as a hero then perhaps as some kind of deus ex machina.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“To recognise something is, then, to perceive clearly what on some level you have known all along, but that perhaps you did not want to know.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
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