The National, January 2, 2010 “The moment I found these, my life changed,” says Sharif Sharif-Safadi, archaeologist and expert on the cultural heritage of Nazareth. It was 1986. Dr. Sharif-Safadi had just returned from Italy. He’d studied archaeology in Perugia and worked on the conservation of historic items in Rome. And then, one afternoon in …
Maan News Agency, December 31, 2009 Construction on the Al-Bireh stadium resumed last week, a month after the Israeli forces shut-down the project. But Palestinian officials are not celebrating – the mood is tense, and the building feverish, as the fate of the stadium remains uncertain. Work on the stadium began in October 2008, after …
Mondoweiss, December 31, 2009 This is the third installation in a seven-part series. See Mondoweiss for details. “It used to be that service wasn’t a question,” Tom Mehager, 32, says, explaining that he grew up in Gilo, a settlement just east of Jerusalem. “But then there was the moment.” It was a split-second decision in …
Mondoweiss, December 29, 2009 This is the second installation in a seven-part series. See Mondoweiss for details. Urban planner and activist Jesse Fox is less encouraged by some of the changes he sees in Israel’s cities. He points to the growing rifts in Jerusalem as a dark harbinger for the country’s future, “The Arabs are …