Tag Archives: Palestine

Malcolm X Returns to Beirut

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

This was my second piece for Land of Gazillion Adoptees/Gazillion Voices [link to article], originally published in May of 2015. Advertisements

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Jamaa Al-Yad: New Projects

Posted on August 26, 2015 by

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 →

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Adoption Is War I+II; Lebanon 2015/1975

Posted on May 23, 2015 by

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 →

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Words From the First Intifada

Posted on July 21, 2014 by

This piece was written after the Israeli massacre of Palestinian youth at the Lebanese border with Palestine on the Day of Return, May 15, 2011. In 1987, after the First Intifada started, I remember sitting in a coffee shop in … Continue reading →

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O, Destroyer! [Dedicated to #Gaza]

Posted on July 1, 2014 by

I wrote this on the last day of the July War 2006 in Lebanon. I dedicate it to Palestinians especially those in Gaza now under attack. The diaries written during that war are still up, and still apply. [link to … Continue reading →

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Existence is Resistance.

Posted on May 23, 2014 by

Yesterday I made my way from Bayonne to 1-4-5 and St. Nick’s in Harlem (thank God for public transportation) where I met up with Ayman El-Sayed (aka “the Lebanese Ether”) and Nancy Mansour (aka “Harrabic Tubman”) the hosts of the … Continue reading →

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Boycott, Divest, and Sanction #BDS

Posted on May 11, 2014 by

Excerpted from the art and design blog, Design Altruism Project [link to blog]: This is a movement for global justice, both political and economic. It focuses on the various levels of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance that formed the active undergirding … Continue reading →

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