To Live in Gaza City
More cause for celebration- a new blog about Gaza is in town. The only catch: its in Swedish, :)
It is written by a Swedish woman and mother of two-Imaan-who is married to a Palestinian from Gaza. After living together in Sweden, where they met, for many years, the two decided to make the permanent journey back to Gaza. Of course life there hasn't been all its cracked up to be (well, I guess compared to sanitized Sweden... ) but she's been trying her best to adjust (i exchange emails with her every so often-and will hopefully meet up once I get back to Gaaza).
Check out her blog, if not for entries (unless you want to go through the trouble of translating using an online dictionary like I do) then for her fabulous pictures, which give you a rare glimpse of "ordinary" life inside Gaza-birthday parties, schools, weddings, ramadan iftars, etc:
http://www.livet-i-gaza.blogspot.com/
posted by Laila @ Sunday, October 16, 2005
3 Comments:
It must be a huge culture shock, but you're right the pictures are great, and the food looks fabulous.
If anyone has any tips about how to get into Gaza, I'd be interested. Someone I know from a human rights group has been trying to get permission to bring an educational tour group to Gaza but has been unsuccessful. I went with a friend last year under the premise of us being health professionals doing research--apparently the Israeli authorities decided it would be too embarrassing to bar health professionals. But evidently educational tour groups are still barred.
Imaan here. I've just set up an ENGLISH blog. It's almost empty until now, but it will fill up by time. No more online dictionaries, Laila. Check it out!
Anne, these days it seemes you come to Gaza by luck (whenever the border actually open) and you get out by luck as well.
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