Once the Butterflies Have Settled

My recent essay about living and loving in New York, published in The Huffington Post:

Once the Butterflies Have Settled

Me speaking on NPR's Tell Me More

Here's the link to a little round table discussion that I was a part of this morning on NPR's Tell Me More, during which we talked about Obama's speech in Cairo:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=46 (Then click the link that says "Listen to Thursday's show)


Hope you enjoy!

Revival.

I finished a couple of essays about two weeks ago, and have been having an especially difficult time constructing sentences ever since, let alone paragraphs. It's all a swirl of emotions these days, with no concrete insights or even anecdotes, largely induced by some great music I've been listening to. So tonight, I've decided that rather than attempt eloquence, I'll recommend some songs that I've recently acquired and have come to love. I hope to return to my regularly scheduled programming in the next few days.

Suggested Playlist:

Bon Iver, Lump Sum
Bon Iver, Skinny Love
David Byrne & Brian Eno, Strange Overtones
David Byrne & Brian Eno, Glass, Concrete, & Stone
Neko Case, The Needle Has Landed
Neko Case, This Tornado Loves You
Edie Brickell, Picture Perfect Morning
Edie Brickell, Times Like This
Daft Punk, Something About Us
Daft Punk, Digital Love
Amos Lee, Keep it Loose, Keep it Tight
Amos Lee, Sympathize
MGMT, Electric Feel
MGMT, Time To Pretend
Death Cab for Cutie, Grapevine Fires
Death Cab for Cutie, Summer Skin
Laurent Wolf, No Stress

my essay in The Christian Science Monitor

Here's a link to my essay in The Christian Science Monitor, which is about living in the US with a dual ethnicity:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0206/p19s05-hfes.html

Israel's Extensive PR Campaign

My Huffington Post article on the war in Gaza:

Israel's Extensive PR Campaign

Beirut

Though the restaurants and clubs are thriving, parts of Beirut are still scarred. Here is the "city view" from The Palm Beach Hotel, which is right near where the bombs that killed PM Rafik Hariri were detonated:

My Huffington Post article

Here's a link to my article on The Huffington Post, which is about my experience of traveling through the West Bank and Israel as a Palestinian-American:

Finding a Wall of Paranoia and Fear in Israel