"Are you going to leave me here all on my own?"
posted by Laila @ Monday, January 02, 2006
Raising Yousuf and Noor: diary of a Palestinian mother
I am a Palestinian from Gaza. I am a journalist. I am a mother. I am a Muslim. This blog is about the trials of raising my children between spaces and identities; displacement and occupation; and everything that entails from potty training to border crossings. My husband is a Palestinian refugee denied his right of return to Palestine, and thus OUR right to family life. Together, we endure a lot, and the personal becomes political. This is our story.
About Me
- Name: Laila
- Location: somewhere between the seas, Gaza Strip, Palestine
Journalist, mom, occupied Palestinian-all packed into one.
Previous Posts
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- Fall bounty
- Hand me those earplugs
- The Empire Strikes Back
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- Yousuf's addiction to coffee begins
2 Comments:
Thanks for the wonderful pictures of your son. I love his half-smile.
Most of all, thanks for your blog, which gives outsiders like me an idea of what's really going on. Thanks for your courage and for your writing.
ahwwwwwwww how cute =-)))))
and life goes on relentlessly. Everday you are inactive, everyday you work, everyday nothing changes politically- but your life will always march on.
Yousuf will grow and you will get older.
Life is so strange sometimes. I am growing up, faster than I can fit in the things I want to do.
nice blog, have read from most recent post down to here SO FAR
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