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Palestinian youths walk past Israel’s controversial separation barrier at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, where thousands of Muslim worshippers queued to cross into Jerusalem on August 4, 2013 on their way to attend the Lailat al-Qadr night prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the last week of the holy month of Ramadan. (AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI.)


Opinion: The Secret Life of Palestine

Opinion: The Secret Life of Palestine

Happy Eid? I have to admit that I have borrowed the word “pessoptimism” from the title of the tragicomic novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974) by the late Palestinian novelist Emile Habibi. Were the author alive, he would immediately ask me to be...