“حكومة الانتداب قرّرت نقل جميع موظفي دائرة الأراضي والمساحة العرب للسكن في مدينة #الرّملة، حيث يتواجَد هناك سكن خاص للموظفين #الإنجليز الذين كانوا قد غادروا فلسطين… وفهمت لاحقا أن هذا معناه ترحيل مبدئي من #يافا.” من كتاب المربية الفاضلة والخالة الحنون ازدهار الفرخ أفيوني Izdihar Al Farekh “حدث ذات يوم في آذار”، الطبعة الأولى، #عمّان، …
11th February has never been the same again after the day I spent in Tahrir Square in Cairo in 2011. You might like to look out the post I wrote for my original blog: http://reemkelani.com/page_media_blog.asp It was the most uplifting day, the day Hosni Mubarak was forced from office by the will of the Egyptian …
For 33 years, I’ve lived in the UK. Having been born here does not make one British – whatever ‘British’ means. I was born in Manchester, yes, but I spent my formative years in Kuwait. Despite personal and collective ‘teething problems’ in the scorching heat of what was then a relatively progressive Arab Muslim country, …