As a Palestinian-American, I have spent the last week glued to my television set. The Palestinian-Israeli saga has been in headlines daily. After over 60 years, even tornadoes, floods and volcanoes can’t stop us. It seems that God is trying his best to rip us from the headlines, but it’s not working. Presidential policy outlines, […]
Month: May 2011
May 15, and We’re Still Surviving…
It’s May 15. Israeli Independence Day. Nakba Day. Israelis “celebrate” this day. We Palestinians “commemorate” it. “Celebrate” and “commemorate” mean entirely different things. As Americans, we “celebrate” July 4. We “commemorate” September 11. Without getting into too much detail (which, I’ll tell you, is painfully difficult for a Palestinian), May 15, 1948 marked the creation of […]
Israel’s New Sarah…
A few weeks ago, I returned from a month-long trip in Palestine, where I performed some comedy shows, ate too much hummus (yes, that’s possible), and witnessed the general ridiculousness of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As it turns out, however, I was not the famous American in the region at the time. Sarah Palin was also […]
Obama, Osama, & Me
Osama bin Laden is gone… finally. His death will save lives. It will also change lives around the world. America is gasping a collective sigh of relief. Bin Laden was that gum you can’t get off the bottom of your shoe, that bit of sand you can never get rid of after a walk on […]