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Steven Mufareh, a starting pitcher for Palestine’s national team, was selected to compete in Baseball United’s UAE series as a member of the MidEast Falcons. Palestine in America caught up with Mufarah to discuss the experience, his performance and what he expects from Palestine’s national team in the near future.
Yunis Halim, who has been dubbed the Shohei Ohtani of Palestine’s national team by Taiwanese media members, will make his second Baseball United appearance, while Syam Lafi, Steven Mufareh and Dylan Ahmad will make their debut when the series begins on Valentine’s Day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Just like my mother, my love language is food. When I don’t know what to say, I bake instead.
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.
The limitations of the fundraising dinner and the role of food workers in collective liberation
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
