Gaza schools on the brink

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a story for a class on the situation of schools in the Gaza strip. I was astounded to find how dire the situation is there for schoolkids.

“There is a great deal of difficulty concentrating because there’s a lot of trauma,” said Saahir Lone, a New York-based employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which runs 221 schools for 200,000 children in Gaza. “It will be some time before some kind of routine can be established.”

Palestine: Get on the Bus

By Eamon Kircher-Allen MIA 2009 Author’s note: this post originally appeared on The Long Gone Daddy on January 3. The post has been updated here to reflect the latest figures as of January 8. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing to look back at the year 1983 and recall being on the fence about Apartheid in South Africa? [...]

Israeli-Palestinian Clash: Who is Winning the PR War?

By Brigitte L. Nacos Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia University The following is the lead in today’s article by Rachel Shabi published in The Guardian: “Israel believes its has won broad international support in the media for its actions in Gaza thanks to its PR strategy, which through a new body has for months [...]