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Gaza: The Epic Struggle of a Trapped Student
Friday, 20 September 2013, 5:09 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
Last night, I had a dream that I was running, running and running, and I kept running till I glanced an emergency exit. Though I cannot remember whether I made my way out, I woke up feeling breathless. Strangled. Suffocated. I cannot even find a better ... More >>
The Epic Struggle of A Trapped Student
Friday, 20 September 2013, 3:01 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
Last night, I had a dream that I was running, running and running, and I kept running till I glanced an emergency exit. Though I cannot remember whether I made my way out, I woke up feeling breathless. Strangled. Suffocated. I cannot even find a better ... More >>
Between The Death of My Nephew and My Visit To Jerusalem
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 4:30 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
My life story in its great detail is so unfathomable and forever surprising I can no longer make sense to myself, let alone to others. Life is so unpredictable and ever changing my heart is never prepared for its unsteady rhythms. Between overwhelming ... More >>
From Gaza to the USA, Culture Shock?
Monday, 17 June 2013, 4:35 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
As everything has to come to an end eventually, I am currently counting down the last few days of my ten-month trip in the United States. I was invited a couple of times to speak on what’s like for a Palestinian from Gaza to live in the U.S. for ... More >>
Sandy and My Mom
Monday, 5 November 2012, 11:13 am | Fidaa Abu Assi
I am a Cast-lead war survivor. And, a Hurricane Sandy survivor, so-to-speak! Both devastating disasters seemed, to me, eerily similar in a way or another; however, the former is Israel man-made in Gaza and the latter is nature-made in America. More >>
Take Me Home
Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 12:58 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
The leaves give a crunch as I step onto them. Lost in the beauty of nature as I stroll up the hill, I seem to have gazed absently into the distance for I don’t know how long, but long enough that I could have stiffness or a crick in my neck. More >>
Born to Fight by Fidaa Abuassi
Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 2:23 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
Hello everyone, It gives me great pleasure to share the lines I wrote a few minutes ago with you. Though I don't claim to be the poetic type, I needed to escape for a while from writing long stories and articles and seek refuge in poetry or better ... More >>
Gaza, Get an Airport or Get a Life
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 10:28 am | Fidaa Abu Assi
And thereby hangs a tale. And therein lies my pain. What worsens the situation and doubles the pain is that all moves around, oblivious to every fact on the ground. I seem destined to suffer each time I have to cross the Rafah border into Egypt. ... More >>
The Accused Was Found Palestinian
Sunday, 22 April 2012, 7:57 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
The Accused Was Found Palestinian By: Fidaa Abuassi 21st April, 2012 Posted on my blog: The Accused Was Found Palestinian “We reject all those who Palestinianize and Islamize everything in their life. We believe in none.” I woke up feeling breathless ... More >>
Fidaa Abu Assi: The Irreplaceable
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 2:00 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
I have got into the habit of letting my students guess the meaning of any new word from its context rather than stating the meaning directly. On the board I wrote these three sentences: “Appreciate the beauty of nature. Appreciate your mother and be ... More >>
The 30-day epic of Ramadan
Saturday, 27 August 2011, 11:46 am | Fidaa Abu Assi
Move the clocks back one hour and Gaza will get an extra hour of sleep –of darkness, but, I thought to myself, Haven’t we already got enough darkness?! The epic of having to switch back to winter time is almost repeated every Ramadan. Since Ramadan ... More >>
“NO” to recognition of a Palestinian state by the UN in Sept
Monday, 25 July 2011, 12:10 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
I am a Palestinian. A patriotic one. I am from Palestine. My homeland. This is my home. And this is my land. Yet, I was born homeless and landless in my homeland. This is my Palestine in which, I, being a native Palestinian, am a no-one but a minority ... More >>
Jeans, Hookah, a Bike, My Rights?
Saturday, 19 February 2011, 12:23 pm | Fidaa Abu Assi
Jeans, Hookah, a Bike, My Rights? By: Fidaa Abu Assi If you are a Gazan woman and you have desperately sought to garner some media attentions and international support, you’d better start by adopting then declaring one of these statements: “I’m ... More >>
