sarah’s Reviews > I Saw Ramallah > Status Update

“Perhaps the worst thing about occupied cities is that their children cannot make fun of them. Who could make fun of Jerusalem! Now, letters to our addresses there will not reach us. They took the addresses of our homes and the dust of our drawers.”

“radwa waited seventeen years for me to come back to our house, and when i came back i brought all those seventeen years with me. and there were seventeen years with her too.”

“when you hear on the radio and read in newspapers and magazines and books and speeches the words ‘the occupied territories’ year after year, festival after festival, summit after summit, you think it’s somewhere at the end of the earth. you think there is absolutely no way you can get to it. do you see how close it is? how touchable? how real? i can hold it in my hand, like a handkerchief”