On 6 June 1982, the Israeli army invaded Lebanon, in reaction to the attempted assassination of the Israeli ambassador Argov in London on June 4. On the same day, the Israeli secret services attributed the attempted ...
Field Notes
The following are excerpts from Fieldnotes from Shatila. Last year I received an email from Dr. Eyad El Sarraj, who I had met and stayed with in Gaza, in 1996, where I did a story on posttraumatic stress syndrome ...
Symptoms of trauma are defense mechanisms against unbearable circumstances and events. They are also signs that the mind is healthy. The problems start after the circumstances are over and the defense mechanisms ...
Symptoms of trauma are defense mechanisms against unbearable circumstances and events. They are also signs that the mind is healthy. The problems start after the circumstances are over and the defense mechanisms ...
The smell of rotting garbage in hot humid air; trickles of raw sewage draining down concrete troughs etched in a narrow lane between high walls connecting a maze of cinder-block houses. The first iron door on the ...
Multitudes of cheering Palestinians shake hands, kiss, hug, and cry with each other on the streets of Gaza City tonight. Car horns blare and people jubilantly shoot their guns into the air to welcome their brothers ...
Preseident Durantes program of eliminating drugs through sanctioning dead squads, has it’s roots in the notion of a program called “The Peoples’ Watch” or “Masa Masid” which would allow ...
In 1996 I spent over two months travelling with a circus that was meant to curb the trauma of children who found themselves on the streets of Ethiopia. Ethiopia has a long history of political strife and ...
The top of Pagoda Hill is a boat ride, a truck ride and two days’ walk from Manerplaw, and light years away from everything sane. I am wet with perspiration and aching from exhaustion after hours of climbing to a ...
“Sweat runs off the faces of the two boys, 17 and 20 years old, who crouch in the front trench with us. After each shell hits they strain their eyes to see through the dust, and over the logs piled in front of the ...