Forat will soon celebrate her eighth birthday. She will take one more step toward the late, clear-eyed stages of childhood – when she will learn to decipher the world and be exposed to its disappointments ■ Post #45
I’m trying to resist the appropriation of the Hebrew language by the Israeli authorities, who have ingrained Hebrew in the Palestinian consciousness as a language of violence and occupation ■ Post #44
A virus that had ravaged the bodies of so many made mine feel as if I had developed an ordinary, mild cold. The man with the soft Southern accent was right when he said we’d get through it just fine ■ Post #43
I was thrilled when I found this book at the library in North Carolina. But after reading it, now as an adult, I discovered things that I hadn’t remembered, maybe because, at the time they were the norm ■ Post #42
Out of the 50 apartments in our building, just one other houses a teenager, and ours are the only children here. In Israel, if you don't have children, they criticize you, but in North Carolina, it's the opposite ■ Post #41