Isabella Hammad

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‘They keep calling her Jordanian,' said Mariam. ´It's like it's the only way to get international attention. They do something to one of us who has a foreign passport, suddenly that person's a foreigner. Guy comes over from the States to see his farmily, gets killed, immediately he's American not Palestinian. Killing a Palestinian is normal. Kill an American? God forbid.’

 Haneen once compared Palestine to an exposed part of an electronic network, where someone has cut the rubber coating with a knife to show the wires and currents underneath. She probably didn't say that exactly, but that was the image she had brought into my mind. That this place revealed something about the whole world. 

Looking back I wonder if boredom was not in some way a defence, if on a certain level I found it more stressful and confusing than I was conscious of, and my distraction protected me, keeping me clean from the violence. 

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