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Palestinians wait at the Allenby bridge border crossing. (By Bassam Almohor)
Leaving Palestine: ‘Give ’em something to talk about’
A fleeting moment of romance in grueling border terminal that devours you alive — and yet you don’t die. A day at the Allenby border crossing. (Read part one of this series here.) By Bassam Almohor “Saqallah ala ayyam zaman (I long for the old times) when we used to travel all over el blad…
By +972 Magazine May 30, 2014
A homage to David Grossman, to mark his new novel
I’d like to step away from the relentless discussion of Grossman’s activism and to explain why he hold such a tremendous place for me and many more as an author – and what his last novel to appear in English tells of this country’s future. David Grossman has a new book coming out today in…
By Dimi Reider June 15, 2011
The passing valentine
He comes to be with her once a year, stays for barely three months, then vanishes. It’s been like that since who knows when. How can a love story last this way? Somehow it does. How can she take it? Somehow she does. She gladly accepts the gifts he brings: A green dress, always a…
By Yuval Ben-Ami February 13, 2011
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