Posts Tagged ‘yaffa’

Yaffa – the city my family once called home

Amirah AbuLughod is a farmer living in New York and a granddaughter of one of the 120,000 Palestinians displaced from Yaffa in 1948. She visited Yaffa on Interfaith Peace-Builders’ recent Olive Harvest Delegation. To read more delegate reflections from the trip got to www.ifpb.org/del63. I walked these streets – we walked these streets – with a man […]

One magical night in Yaffa

The lamp-lit alleyways of Yaffa “Last night feels like a dream,” one of us said, the following afternoon, voicing a sentiment that all three of us were sharing.  The night had indeed had all the elements of a dream.  There was its lingering hold over us, its obvious evasion of capture in words, and our […]

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