Dear friends,
I pass herein two items tonight:
1) an interview with a national Palestinian poet, Mourid Barghouti, who also happen to be my wife’s uncle. His words are deep and from the heart;
2) a foreign teacher’s short eyewitness documentary while visiting occupied Palestine. A peek inside the Palestinian city of Nablus, which has been battered by the Israeli occupation over the past 5+ years.
A desire for a dignified life, keeps us struggling for freedom and independence,
Sam
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Guardian
A life in writing: Mourid Barghouti
‘You have to strike a balance. I hate the terms ‘resistance poetry’ or ‘exile poetry’. We’re not onetheme poets. There’s no one face. I see both’
Interview by Maya Jaggi
The Guardian, Saturday 13 December 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/13/mourid-barghouti
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EYEWITNESS SHORT DOCUMENTARY
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I have just finished editing a documentary about my 5 weeks in Nablus and the West Bank during summer 2008.
It tells the story of people (Palestinians and Internationals) living under a strict occupation. It mainly takes place in Nablus, biggest city of the West Bank, surrounded by checkpoints, facing Israeli army incursions day and night, where the unemployment rate has skyrocketed in the last few years and where many people now live under the poverty line. Those people need us to act NOW to stop this vicious occupation and collective punishment.
You can watch it online at: http://www.archive.org/details/Occupation2008
Any feedback welcome. Feel free to share it with others.
All the best
Frank Barat
London
http://lifeunderoccupation.wordpress.com/
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Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM), a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.
Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine’s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS).
He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine’s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.
A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.
Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled “The Tallest Man in Ramallah.” He holds an Associate’s and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA — a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.
He tweets at @SamBahour, blogs at www.epalestine.ps, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.
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