Eid and the Poor

So its all happy Eid vibes up in here. I wonder if the Eid passed or ever did by the poor ones. In my observation of  those people fasting throughout the whole month of Ramadan, a practice that’s aimed at discipline and an occasion once a year for the privileged/rich ones to feel with poor, i noticed  a lot of sleeping all day or most … Continue reading Eid and the Poor

The End of the Peace Process page:242

how official spokesmen still can speak with a straight face of averting violence and condemning terrorism when the United States has a long record of bloody illegal action all over the third world achieved by no other power simply defies credulity.the United States after all is the country that killed 3 million Vietnamese,that was behind the massacre of roughly 10 percent of the Guatemalan population … Continue reading The End of the Peace Process page:242

The incident that made me switch my tools

Thursday, December 09, 2010 Last month I had a terrifying experience as journalism betrayed me for the first time in my four years of working as a fixer. When I first met freelance journalist Ruthie Ackerman in a cafe in Beirut in early September, I realized that she did not know anything about Lebanon. Ms. Ackerman had arrived in Beirut to do a story on … Continue reading The incident that made me switch my tools