By January 29, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Al Qiq had spent 66 days on hunger strike in Israeli jails.A day before he fell into his third coma, he sent a public message through his lawyers, the gist of which was: freedom or death.Qiq is 33 years of age, married and father of

Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds.

When Daesh militias swept into Mosul, Iraq, in June 2014, Ibrahim Mahmoud plotted his flight, along with his whole family, which included 11 children. Once upon a time, Mahmoud was himself a child escaping another violent campaign carried out by equally angry militias.In his

Ali Abumghasib knows little about the current intrigues of the Fateh movement or, perhaps, he is just not interested.Although he has dedicated most of his life fighting within its ranks, he never saw his membership in Fateh as his defining identity.

Although intended to inspire his Fateh Party followers, Mahmoud Abbas’ televised speech on the 51st anniversary of the group’s launch highlighted, instead, the unprecedented crisis that continues to wreak havoc on the Palestinian people.Not only did Abbas sound defensive and lack

When I was a little boy, I used to dream of being reborn outside the hardship of the refugee camp in Gaza, in some other time and place where there were no soldiers, no military occupation, no concentration camps and no daily grind, where my father did not have to fight for our s

John Bolton is a tarnished character.

Throughout her hunger strike of exactly 47 days, Hana Shalabi never slept consistently for a number of hours.In the first few days of her strike, she would doze off only to wake up with the sudden fear that someone was trying to hurt her.But after the first week of hunger strike,

When Egypt decided to open the Rafah border crossing that separates it from Gaza for two days, December 3 and 4, a sense of guarded relief was felt in the impoverished strip.True, 48 hours were hardly enough for the tens of thousands of patients, students and other trav