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War games
Laila El-HaddadGaza City, Palestine23 May 2007I can’t sleep. I get up maybe once every two hours. Go to the bathroom, walk around a little, and then doze off again. Only to be awakened by the drones,...
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Al Jazeera interviews EI's Ali Abunimah
Laila El-Haddad3 July 2007For nearly 20 years, the two-state solution has been promoted as the agreed framework for negotiations and ultimately peace to end the conflict between Israel and the...
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The closed gates to Gaza
Laila El-Haddad30 July 2007We had planned to leave Gaza around the beginning of June, with tickets booked out of Cairo 7 June. My parents were to come along with us for a visit. As is often the case in...
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Annapolis, as seen from Gaza
Laila El-Haddad23 November 2007The Annapolis conference simply generates new and ever-more superfluous and intricate promises which Israeli leaders can commit to and yet somehow evade. An exercise in...
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Down goes the wall
Laila El-HaddadUnited States25 January 2008Last night I received a text message from my dear friend Fida: “It’s coming down — it’s coming down!” she declared ecstatically. “Laila! The Palestinians...
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The Gaza genocide
Laila El-Haddad2 March 2008We celebrated Yousuf’s fourth birthday today. We ate cake. And we counted the bodies. We sang happy birthday. And my mother sobbed. We watched the fighter jets roar...
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The rains of death in Gaza
Laila El-HaddadNorth Carolina27 December 2008We woke up this morning to the news in Gaza. It seems we always wake up to news there — so it has become a matter of perspective how bad the news is each...
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Bloodied in Gaza as the world silently watches
Laila El-HaddadDurham, United States30 December 2008“There is a complete blackout in Gaza now. The streets are as still as death.” I am speaking to my father, Moussa el-Haddad, a retired physician who...
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Trapped, traumatized and terrorized
Laila El-HaddadDurham, United States4 January 2009My father and I made simultaneous back to back appearances on domestic CNN and CNN International last night. My father spoke calmly, eloquently, in the...
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Nowhere to hide from the bombing
Laila El-HaddadDurham, United States9 January 2009“You don’t know anymore; you don’t know who is alive, you feel you are in a trap, you don’t know who is a target,” said my friend and neighbor in Gaza...
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We talk in silence, we stand together
Laila El-HaddadDurham, United States12 January 2009I receive the dreaded 9pm call from my father. My heart skipped a beat — late night calls always bear bad news. “More bombings, I can’t sleep. Israeli...
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The gates of Hell, the window to Heaven
Laila El-HaddadDurham, United States13 January 2009I have a routine of sorts. I monitor the situation back home in Gaza all day — I keep Al Jazeera English on continuously as long as I am home, despite...
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The quintessential Palestinian experience
Laila El-HaddadUnited States14 April 2009“For this is what the Palestinian does: we wait. For an answer to be given, for a question to be asked … for exile to a better place and for return to the only...
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Israel's siege on freedoms
Laila El-Haddad6 August 2010Zionist sympathizers and their ilk have been providing us with the same “evidence” that Gaza is burgeoning: the markets are full of produce, fancy restaurants abound, there...
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Palestinian cuisine is more than what’s on the plate
Laila El-Haddad15 June 2017Palestine On A Plate author Joudie Kalla talks food, memory and identity.
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