Showing posts with label gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaza. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Hospital room reminded me of Benidorm

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The NHS so broken round the edges is, of course, still excellent in a crisis. I  found myself suddenly in hospital for a week in the middle ...
Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Teju Cole event at The Portobello Bookshop

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I very much enjoyed the event with Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole at The Portobello Bookshop last night , chaired by Ro...
Tuesday, 29 July 2014

I don't know what to say about Gaza

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I don't know what to say about Gaza, writers should have words, but I have no words. I just want to scream with despair and rage and gr...
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Monday, 19 November 2012

Tanks In Our Bedrooms

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You feel a helpless fury and incomprehension, you don't even want to see or hear any more news when this is the image you went to sleep...
Friday, 11 November 2011

Prepare

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Prepare to be heartbroken and inspired: Unreported World on Gaza's disabled athletes preparing for Paralympics. Channel Four.
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Sunday, 13 February 2011

Guardian books podcast & Egypt

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The Guardian podcast on books on illness is here , I was delighted to get a mention (approx 14 mins in), I really did not expect to, thank...
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010

A very long post on balance & pain & beauty

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People tell me they enjoy this blog because it gets the balance of ME and non-ME right, how do I manage it? I'm not sure I know. My imp...
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Friday, 18 June 2010

Luxury items

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Coriander and coffee?! These Gazans don't know they're born.
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Sunday, 13 June 2010

Hope?

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I hope this is true. Very interesting article in last week's Herald by Israeli Ilan Pappe, professor of history at Exeter University.
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Donkeys pretending to be zebras

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If you are a donkey in Gaza and you are wondering what to do for Hallowe'en, you can always dress up as a zebra. This is so sad to read...
Tuesday, 9 June 2009

If you have 7 minutes to spare...

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... watch this video from today's Guardian on Gaza's 'reconstruction' .
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Thursday, 21 May 2009

Hungry for change

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I have such admiration for these medics.
Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Sheikh it all about

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You've got to hand it to the ' Sheikh of National Unity ', he wears a robe made up of flags of the different Palestinian faction...
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Monday, 19 January 2009

'Music for Gaza'

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A six-month-old music school in Gaza was bombed during the siege. Dutch charity Music in Gaza will help rebuild the school when possible. Th...
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Saturday, 17 January 2009

Wondering

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I have been wondering what has happened to 'The Tea Boy of Gaza,' Mahmoud, the wee boy featured in a BBC documentary I saw in 200...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009

Lies, lies and more lies

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I am worn out with rage and a sense of hopelessness, reading about Gaza. T he cemeteries are full, Palestinians are having to open up pre-e...
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Sunday, 4 January 2009

??????

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Oh for fuck's sake... In this clip, a relief worker talks of injured Gazans being injured again as they waited in a hospital next to a ...
Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Hell

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What is this achieving, exactly?
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Tuesday, 3 October 2006

Too Much to Bear

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BBC 2 tonight: first there was the live coverage of the baby seal, covered in blood and dragging itself along the beach. I don't know w...
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Friday, 18 August 2006

Fishermen Who Are Not Allowed To Fish

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The fishermen in Gaza have not been allowed to fish since late June, and even when they are allowed to fish, they have to stay within a si...
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