Category: Palestine
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Attention, Detention
“I know why she’s here: she has a dangerous amount of shoes in her suitcase” – a man pointed to a young girl, probably his relative, resulting in laughs – or smiles at least – in the waiting hall in Ben Gurion airport. That waiting hall, interestingly, was not the one you get into after […]
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Palestine Series No. 3. Bethlehem to Jericho: a Crazy Desert Ride
Though I’ve been to some places already, I don’t really have many stories that I myself would call adventures. The inquiry “tell me about your adventures” would always leave me confused. The times I was enjoying buckets of local whiskey in Southeast Asia? Or the time I was freezing on trains in India? They do […]
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Palestine Series No 2. Bethlehem: The Wall
I was thinking for a while whether I should blog about this. You know, to jump from pseudo-travel stories to something that could be called political. In my previous post, while talking about my trip in general I said there were many things I wanted to write about and that I was still trying to […]
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Palestine Series No 1. Ramallah: “…not the destination, but the journey itself…”
Before I dive into this avalanche of posts I’ve been meaning to write about my trip to the Middle East, let me give you a brief intro. Officially, I was here for my MA research. Unofficially, I was here for any other reason, including “why not?” and some desire to once again escape Europe. My […]