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18th May 2012
Israel-Palestine 2012, Travels

Jerusalem: What Apartheid Looks Like

Jerusalem.  The Holy City.  Centre of three major world religions,  and surely a place that should transcend political differences, remind us of our shared humanity, and humble all who enter its ancient walls? For while I am not a member of any of the patriarchal Abrahamic faiths, it seems to me that Christianity, Judaism and Islam share a reverence for…

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BDS Jerusalem Mamilla Cemetery Palestine The Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel The Educational Bookshop

12th May 2012
Israel-Palestine 2012, Travels

Yaffa Rocks

First day in Israel-Palestine, and a stop in Tel Aviv en route to Jerusalem, Jenin and Ramallah.  But what to do in a city you are boycotting?  Protest, of course.  Today I joined Arab and Jewish Israeli activists demonstrating in Yaffa – AKA Jaffa or Yafo, the old Arab town now subsumed by Tel Aviv – in support of the…

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Ajami BDS Ilan Pappe Jaffa Jonathan Cook Palestine Palestinian Hunger Strikes Tel Aviv

11th May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Travels

The Million Star Hotel

I spent my penultimate night in Anatolia at a homestay in the village of Yuvacali (Yu-va-JA-li), following a day tour to the ‘bee hive’ houses of Harran, near the Syrian border, and the ancient sites of Sogmatar and Gőbekli Tepe – the latter, dated from 9000 BC, being the world’s oldest known religious temple.  Both experiences were courtesy of Nomad…

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Armenia Kurdistan Nomad Tours Turkey Yuvacali

8th May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Novels, Travels

Between the Rivers

    In our country a look a wave of the hand means the world In our country there are no terraces of paradise no rewards from ‘The North Gate’ Bejan Matur Wikipedia will give you all the background facts: 25 to 30 million Kurds inhabit the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, a region known since antiquity as…

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Astra Bejan Matur Diyarbakir Istanbul Kurdistan Turkey

2nd May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Novels, Travels

I Rest My Case

                      Seen from the window of a minibus, heading out of Diyarbakir on a day trip to the Neolithic site of Çayönü.  As was this roundabout monument, which I must admit puts the twelve foot high gopher in Regina’s Wascana Park to shame.  In fact, I think it even beats…

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Diyarbakir Regina

2nd May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Novels, Travels

Land of Buttermilk and Daisies

So why Kurdistan?  As readers of previous posts may have gathered, I am here location scouting for my second novel, Astra. Without giving too much of the plot away, the book is set a century from now, after global warming has rendered much of the planet unfit for human habitation and the survivors of the catastrophe are slowly trying to…

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Al-Jazira Arc Publications Astra Bejan Matur buttermilk daisies Diyarbakir Inanna Istanbul Kurdistan Ruth Christie

1st May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Travels

Clicking with the Kurds

Arriving in Diyarbakir – one of the most remote and unexpected travel destinations I have ever set my heart on – was in the end a strangely familiar experience.  I was the only Westerner on the plane, but rather than feeling isolated by my conspicuous presence in the crowd of Kurds, I found myself reconnecting with my past – the…

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Diyarbakir Kurdistan

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