Dec 30

Dec 30 Letter From the Editor: Deluxe Food Edition

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue, From the Editor

When I was asked to edit the Food Issue of Palestine in America, so many experiences went behind my emphatic yes: Hunting with North American Indigenous mentors on Pine Ridge Reservation, my maternal family’s history of enslavement in the South, seeing fields of cotton represent liberation on an Indigenous-owned farm on the Gila River Reservation, the violence I faced when I spoke out against Zionism and racism in my early 20s, and my friends crying as their family members were murdered by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank.

Dec 30

Dec 30 ‘My Hand Over Your Hand’: Finding Freedom in Teta’s Kitchen

Jude Taha

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

In 2016, as I prepared to leave for my bachelor’s degree in Washington, Pennsylvania — my first time living abroad — I asked my grandmother to teach me how to cook.

Dec 30

Dec 30 Managing famine in Gaza

Salama Al-Ladaa

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

As the war continues and the situation worsens in northern Gaza, it has become incredibly difficult to obtain food and basic necessities. Prices have skyrocketed, and things we once considered simple and accessible are now nearly impossible to get. With limited resources, people are surviving on whatever remains, but even those resources are no longer enough to meet their basic needs.

Dec 30

Dec 30 Food sovereignty during occupation, genocide

Fathi Nimer

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

As Indigenous people, Palestinians resist the colonization of their land, their souls, and their food. Sumood, resilience, is a core pillar of Palestinian refusal of colonization. Out of sumood, Palestinian food sovereignty arose.

Dec 30

Dec 30 Two recipes, one tradition: Making musakhan in Gaza before and after the genocide

Hamza N. Ibrahim

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

While Israel had maintained a chokehold over Gaza’s food supply since its blockade in 2006, we had still managed tender chicken, fresh bread from the local bakery, generous glugs of olive oil. But since last October, musakhan hasn’t been the same.

Dec 30

Dec 30 Rescuing our recipes: Preserving Palestinian culture in times of war

Lama Obeid

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

From Chile to the U.S., Palestinians have formed communities, opened restaurants and markets, imported ingredients from their homeland, and continued the legacy of the Palestinian kitchen. Palestinian students studying abroad bring their ingredients with them and, with some directions from their mothers on video calls, bring their family recipes to life.

Dec 30

Dec 30 The Dates

Jana Amin

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

How a fruit can symbolize sumood

Dec 30

Dec 30 Nabala serves activists, fills void in Chicago

Alejandro Hernandez

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A new Palestinian-owned cafe in Chicago’s Uptown has become a hub for the pro-Palestine community — and a target of Zionist hate crimes

Dec 30

Dec 30 Completing the Circle: My Search for Identity

Angela Zaher

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

Just like my mother, my love language is food. When I don’t know what to say, I bake instead.

Dec 30

Dec 30 Resilience in a Bottle: 5,000 years of Palestinian wine

Jamal Rayyis

Blog, Palestine in America, Print Issue, Food Edition

During Byzantine times and again during the Crusades, sweet wines from the hinterlands of Gaza and Majdal/Ashqlan were prized in Europe. And while customary Muslim practice eschewed the consumption of alcohol, wine production was maintained by and for local Christian and Jewish communities, as well as for pilgrims visiting the Holy Land.

Dec 30

Dec 30 In search of a new recipe for solidarity

Sabrina Beydoun

Blog, Food Edition, Palestine in America, Print Issue

The limitations of the fundraising dinner and the role of food workers in collective liberation

Dec 30

Dec 30 Food Motifs in Tatreez

Tatreez Jenin

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With tatreez, we can tell the ingredients Palestinian women grew up with in their villages, we can tell their favorite foods, we can tell which crops hold special significance to them, like pomegranates, cauliflower, corn, berries, and chickpeas and raisins.

Dec 3

Dec 3 Israeli airstrike kills journalist Wafa Aludaini

Asem Al Jerjawi

Blog, News, Palestine in America

In the middle of the night, an Israeli airstrike directly targeted the home of Palestinian journalist Wafa Aludaini–killing her, her husband, and two of their children in Deir Al Balah, Central Gaza on Sept. 30.

Nov 12

Nov 12 Palestine finishes third in Arab Cup

Nader Ihmoud

Blog, Palestine in America, sports

Palestine’s baseball team earned third place at Baseball United’s Arab Cup in Dubai, after finishing the group stage undefeated.

Failing to reach the finals hurt, but the 45th ranked team in the world will use the pain to reignite their ambitious flame.

Oct 24

Oct 24 Israel continues to ethnically cleanse North Gaza

Asem Al Jerjawi

Blog, News, Palestine in America

The Israeli military is escalating its assault and besiegement on Jabalia–a town in northern Gaza.

Since October 6th, Israel’s mission in Gaza has been to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the north. At least 770 have been killed and 1,000 injured since the assault began on October 6th, with countless corpses remaining under the rubble, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.

Oct 21

Oct 21 'The word 'difficult' still has limitations': Ahmad Wuhidi grips memory of martyred mother on journey from Gaza to New York

Nader Ihmoud

Palestine in America, Print Issue, Journalism Edition, Blog, Podcast

Ahmad Wuhidi, who had been displaced more than five times before he evacuated Gaza, covered the war against Palestinians for five months.

He was at Al Shifa Hospital when the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) attacked what was supposed to be a safe zone on Nov. 16. The medical complex, located in central Gaza, was the territory’s biggest, housing tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians at the time.

Oct 8

Oct 8 As soon as you're identified as a journalist, you're dead': Mohammed Mhawish shares experience of reporting in Gaza

Nader Ihmoud

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Palestine in America interviewed Mhawish from Cairo, where he detailed his experience reporting from the north of Gaza, the dangers of wearing a press vest in Palestine and his eventual evacuation. You can listen to the full interview on YouTube and Spotify.

Oct 8

Oct 8 Palestinian you should know: Lama Abu Jamous

Palestine in America

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Lama Abu Jamous is a child reporter who gained notoriety when she began covering the war after her home was bombed and her family displaced. She famously interview Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Al Dahdouh during the first months of the bombardment.

Oct 8

Oct 8 Palestinian you should know: Hind Khoudary

Palestine in America

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Hind Khoudary is still alive and reporting from Gaza. She is currently reporting for Al Jazeera English and produces content for the World Food Program. Despite the dangers, Khoudary has decided to stay and do her job from within the Gaza strip.

Oct 8

Oct 8 Palestinian you should know: Salam Mema

Nader Ihmoud

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Salam Mema, a 32-year-old freelance Palestinian journalist and head of the Women Journalists Committee at the Palestinian Media Assembly, was killed after sustaining injuries when her home in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, was hit by an Israeli airstrike.