My vacation in Sharm e-Sheikh
There we were in Sharm e-Sheikh over the July 23 weekend for our annual family vacation. Asleep in our hotel room, we were[…]
Sharm El Sheikh
July 22-27, 2005 It was 1.30 at night, we had just returned exhausted from the center of town after we had a fabulous[…]
Asymmetry needs to be addressed
It was not surprising that the long-awaited Palestinian-Israeli summit didn’t produce results. Instead of the Sharon-Abbas meeting dealing with the many issues that[…]
Talk of a third Intifada
It is an unlikely request. But Palestinians would be pleasantly surprised if US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would do it when she[…]
Problems of unilateralism
To some shortsighted politicians, unilateralism seems very convenient. It doesn’t require the mess of actual negotiations. It is usually politically correct, because you[…]
Reciprocation could help
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ political honeymoon is almost over. And the results are worrisome. Palestinians gave Arafat’s heir a huge boost in the[…]
Palestinian Christians and Israel
The trials and tribulations of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem continue to attract the attention of Palestinians, Jordanians and Greeks alike. The[…]
A humiliating US gift
The demand by the US Congress to divert $50 million of President George W. Bush’s $200-million pledge of aid to the Palestinian Authority[…]
Election fever
The corridors of the normally quiet Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University were crowded on Tuesday as students and their supporters[…]
A special donor, Allenby Bridge, VIP service and bureaucrats
Today was a special day for me. For the first time since I began my media work, one of the main donors to[…]