Jerusalem cont’d…

So the past few weeks haven’t exactly been empty – I’ve been to Jerusalem (twice), Zippori and Bait She’arim (capital and mausoleum for c. 200 AD Jewry), a Circassian village, a Sufi mosque in Sakhnin, as well as the regular Arabic and Hebrew classes. Excuses aside, I think it would be fair to say that [...]

Under the skin

Inside out – the past week was rather enlightening, in terms of looking more deeply at different perspectives: the half day we spent in Ein Hudh, a displaced Arab community in sight of the homes they been forced to flee; the time spent in the Artist’s Colony set up in those forbidden homes; the time [...]

slowly slowly…

Three weeks in, and I’m conscious that I’m not writing much in the way of my thoughts – it’s more out of confusion than anything else. The language courses are marching steadily onward, Hebrew especially, where I’ve gone from looking at the script as meaningless doodles to understanding and being able to [...]