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Tag Archives: Palestine
Fiber Arts: “To Oakland With Love” Exhibition
I am honored to have been asked to participate in an exhibition of fiber arts at the Pro Arts Commons/Gallery in Oakland. My work will represent knitting done while sitting vigil waiting to hear word from friends and family in … Continue reading
My Vigil [Full Transcript]
JRR Kinsey, who oversees the Blood’s Call: Online Journal & Podcast and who interviewed me recently [link to interview ➤], asked me to contribute an audio piece to an artists’ web site produced by Ming Studios [link to site ➤]. … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged adoption, Gaza, July War 2006, Lebanon, Palestine, Residential schools
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My Vigil: An Audiocast
JRR Kinsey, who oversees the Blood’s Call: Online Journal & Podcast and who interviewed me recently [link to interview ➤], asked me to contribute an audio piece to an artists’ web site produced by Ming Studios [link to site ➤]. … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, Gaza, July War 2006, Lebanon, Palestine, Residential schools
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On Palestine, apartheid, land, patience, and steadfastness
I sent a text message to a dear friend I had not seen in a long while, wishing him a happy Eid. He wrote back: “I’m in Gaza.” I knew he was planning this trip, but did not know he … Continue reading
Intercountry Adoption: An Invisible Narrative of War
Badael-Alternatives (@badael_alternat) is pleased to invite you to its conference: “Intercountry Adoption: A Narrative of War”. The Conference will be held: 10:30 a.m. on Friday, June 21st, 2019 at the Padova Hotel, Sin el Fil, Beirut. The conference’s aim is … Continue reading
Posted in Engagements & Events
Tagged adoption, Beirut, conference, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, trafficking
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The Adoptee as Citizen, Denizen, Alien: Redefining Adoption as Formalized Extirpation
This paper served as the basis for a translated article that appeared in the Legal Agenda newsletter [link: http://www.legal-agenda.com/article.php?id=1274&folder=articles&lang=ar%5D, and was presented at a conference that was set up to discuss the ongoing crisis of child trafficking in Greater Syria. … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption activism
Tagged adoption, child trafficking, Lebanon, Marxism, Palestine, Syria, trafficking
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Malcolm X Returns to Beirut
This was my second piece for Land of Gazillion Adoptees/Gazillion Voices [link to article], originally published in May of 2015.
Jamaa Al-Yad: New Projects
Jamaa Al-Yad is happy to announce two new projects. The first is in collaboration with the Inteference Archive in Brooklyn, which has put together a portfolio of posters honoring the Cuban poster design of the Organization of Solidarity of the … Continue reading
Adoption Is War I+II; Lebanon 2015/1975
I’ve just added a new page, Lebanon 1975: Adoption is War II. It is based on an article found in the news magazine Monday Morning from January, 1975, three months before the “start” of the Lebanese Civil War. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption resistance, DNA and Adoption, History
Tagged adoption, brokering, Frantz Fanon, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Palestine, trafficking
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Existence is Resistance: The BDS and Land Back Movements
This statement is in response to the Vancouver City Council’s recent resolution targeting BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions). It has been updated to reflect growing local efforts in support of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and protests concerning the construction of … Continue reading →