Adania Shibli

It’s the barrier of fear, fashioned from fear of the barrier.

It’s been a long time since I’ve passed through here, and wherever I look, all the changes constantly reassert the absence of anything Palestinian

The existence of life here had already become a paradoxical joke.”

Bombing sounds very different depending on how close one is to the place being bombed, or how far.

especially those who had recently joined the platoon, took good care of their uniforms and gear;

regardless of which military operations they took part in, which were crucial to securing control over the area, enforcing the new border with Egypt and preventing infiltrators from penetrating it.

Evening, August 12, 1949.

Evening, August 12, 1949.

see vast areas of land, capable of absorbing thousands of our people in exile, remain neglected

after they let it be seized by the Bedouins and their animals.