Dear Reader, While the world fights, I write. I won’t bore you with my assessment of the war. You can read it here, Iran War Balance Sheet. Instead, this newsletter is dedicated to celebrating the women of Palestine and the Palestine movement, starting with a short story honoring my mother published in Scene48. Inaugurating a series of posts featuring books by Palestinian women authors, you get a review of Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Geography of Light. I also review Abby Martin’s movie Earth’s...

Dear Reader, “In a world of automata, being human is revolutionary.” It is a formidable feeling to finally see the first layout of my long-awaited second book. Reading it brought back the years of blood and tears with which it was written. “The book I never wanted to write.” Many thanks to my publisher from Fomite, Donna Bister, for an excellent layout and for bearing with my last-minute additions “We all must understand Gaza to survive in this new world. We cannot go back to the same blinded...

Dear Reader, A new year accentuates the uncertainty we live. The future is wide open. We do our best, but it never ceases to surprise. I concluded 2025 in mourning. My publisher, Marc Estrin of Fomite Press, passed away in August. Amid the train of lives lost that year, and the flurry of events surrounding the non-ceasefire, my grief for this personal loss was deferred. Marc Estrin, co-founder of Fomite press, novelist, cellist, puppeteer at Bread and Puppet Theater, and activist in...