- Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign ministers representing the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the "Abraham Accords Peace Agreement" in Washington DC which normalises their...
- The COVID-19 pandemic has the seeds for a mental health crisis around the world; in Palestine it highlights pre-existing challenges in mental health provision. Although Palestinians have survived previous episodes of...
- I write this on a day that saw the confirmation of a sudden and delayed rise of Covid-19 cases among Palestinians in the small neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem....
- In March, a field hospital being built by Israeli aid group Natan in conjunction the American Evangelical Christian organisation Friend Ships will start operating in the northern Gaza Strip near the...
- A mother came to me in the wake of her son's suicide. She had consulted a Sheikh – in this case someone who claimed to be a religious leader...
- Traumatised patients who I see in my office often express negativistic mistrust when I ask them about their feelings: "It is humiliating to complain to anyone other than God";...
- A commitment to Palestine binds together many Arab, Muslim and other marginalised minorities in the West, generating strong emotional, ideological and political support. The nature of this bond often...
- While Israel was celebrating its independence day earlier this week, I heard two anecdotes. One story was related to me by Jerusalemite friends working in Israeli institutions, who told...
- In the field of medicine, we often speak of the social determinants of health. In Palestine, not only social, but political determinants of health have a grave impact on...
- More than 55 per cent of Palestinians living in the occupied territories were born after the signing of the Oslo Accords 25 years ago. What is life like for...
- On a few occasions, my mother has awakened me anxiously to let me know who is the latest to be arrested for a Facebook statement, and to warn me...
- A French colleague once asked me, "Why are the Palestinians stuck in the Nakba? They commemorate villages no longer present on any map and bequeath to their children the...
- The occupation of Palestine has fallen into universal oblivion. In the face of this void, however, there are still Palestinians who attempt to affirm their selfhood through challenging the...
- The latest religious and racial slurs embodied in the Trump administration's decision to transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem has rubbed salt into the ever-open wound of Israel's occupation...
- In our stressful state of occupation, there is, among other ills, an essentialist view of Israeli and Palestinian characteristics. In the many public talks that I have given to...
- In a psychotic state, a 16 year old young woman patient from the West Bank went beyond the confines of her own boundaries: "I saw the sky turned red...
- From those who are willing to legitimise killing and torture in support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the fabrication of lies and false accusations to intimidate their opponents...
- After 100 years, Britain seems to be at the same moral stage as it was when UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to a leader of the British Jewish...
- While the exercise of military control over an occupied country may be expected to inflict inevitable pain and trauma on the citizens of that country, the history of Israeli...
- When Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to the Israeli-American donor Haim Saban against the popular and peaceful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, she described "the Jewish state" as...