Hanitizer: October 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 3:52 AM | |

At the Ballot Box, Trouble is Brewing for Hamas By Hanitizer Observers of the political scene in Palestine are carefully monitoring...

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

25 Things I Hate about Arabs

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 11:58 AM | Filed Under: humor, Listmania |

25 Things I Hate about Arabs By Hanitizer This is not for the “I hate Arabs” Reader If you are sitting on the floor, you cannot fall. But they cannot...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 5:22 AM | |

The Gaza Memos: Unity Agreement?By HanitizerThe leader of Fatah brag about signing the unity paper presented by Egypt and negotiated by the Palestinian leadership of both Fatah and Hamas. Fatah media lays the burden on Hamas for not signing the paper...

Friday, October 23, 2009

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 9:31 AM | |

Awad, the Palestinian Home BuilderBy HanitizerAwad is a 51 year-old Palestinian refugee who has no mentionable education, a homeowner, and a father of eleven. Awad has been effectively unemployed since the year 2000. In the early eighties and late nineties...

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Politics Day to Day

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 5:35 AM | |

Just like millions of Palestinians I am waiting to hear good news about a possible unity agreement between the two leading political parties in Palestine. For months now, Egypt has those guys meet and talk about their areas of disagreement...they all...

Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Little Nephew that Hated me then Loved Me

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 12:16 PM | |

You see him holding his favorite treat...chips..inciedently named "the Rocket" for its rocket shape...smuggled from Egypt and sold in Gaza for about 30...

Early Morning in Gaza

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 12:09 PM | |

For the first time in my visit to Gaza I got scared....This morning after the sunrise prayer in the local mosque...at about 4:40 AM and 3 minutes away from my home...as I got out of the mosque and walked back to my home, there was a number of Israeli...

Swine Flu Anyone?

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 10:29 AM | |

Spotted in Gaza…Bacon!By HanitizerOn a nice chill day in Gaza, as I headed to the Government Complex in downtown Gaza to check on my travel status, I...

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Here is Some News

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 7:08 AM | |

So It looks like things should get better fo the people of Gaza....Egypt is pushing for Fateh and Hamas agreement...it's rumored to be singed in the next few days...once they sign on it...Egypt said they wqill open the borders for good...no closures...they...

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 7:00 AM | |

Confessions of a Rafah Tunnel WorkerBy HanitizerFew days ago I went to Rafah Crossing to pick up my bag from my last failed attempt to leave Gaza, an hour ride from my family’s residence in Northern Gaza. On my way back on the seven-passenger car, a...

Thursday, October 08, 2009

UNRWA 101

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 11:00 AM | |

UNRWA 101By HanitizerThe UNRWA is the international organization that falls under the umbrella of the United Nation specifically geared to help the Palestinian refugees in the countries where they reside, that would be the Occupied Palestinian Territories,...

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Sup?

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 9:06 AM | |

I have gotten myself busy in a new non-paid gig. I have been working to translate some documents from Arabic to English....it is fun task that I took to keep me busy and feel like I am doing something. It's a gig I got from an uncle of mine...let's just...

How to Earn It

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 8:59 AM | |

I have now offcialy won me a new freind...my little nephew is not a buddy of mine. when I first came back, this 3 year old rejected me and always runs away form me and hides when he sees me show up. He fears me, while most of the others come running...

Monday, October 05, 2009

Letter to the SL Tribune

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 8:00 AM | |

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Sunday, October 04, 2009

My Foot In Your...

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 9:53 AM | |

I had a pain on my foot for three days now...it started as a small scratch and it kept on growing...when it started to bother me in walking, I said I...

Friday, October 02, 2009

The Gaza Siege Stinks…literary

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 1:24 PM | |

The Gaza Siege Stinks…literaryBy HanitizerThose with intimate knowledge of us Arabs know how obsessed we are with fragrance. Good fragrances to us are the trucker hats to suburbanites, the cool sneakers to the urbanites. While most do it for cosmetic...

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Letters to Sara

Author: Hanitizer | Posted at: 3:41 PM | |

Thank you for your comment, and all the best in your plans as you intend to see your family. The last person I spoke to on my way to Gaza, was your mom. I plan on making a visit to their home in the near future. I think I should be back in DC in two...