just a shot away
by jebni on August 15, 2006
I’ve always been a bit sceptical about my own relationship to Arabness as a vicarious “proxy ethnicity” — I’ve recently written long, soul-searching emails to various friends about this issue, and it’s always been funny when H introduces me to (…)
disaster takes care of everything
by jebni on August 14, 2006
Our Hong Kong comrades certainly don’t fuck around — after Lena showed “From Beirut… to those who love us” at her recent talk, Terry from the 8A Social Movement Resource Centre and Videopower immediately went and subtitled it in Chinese. (…)
heavy
by jebni on August 14, 2006
Everything’s still a blur. We’re staying in Hong Kong for another three weeks to tie up some loose ends and hopefully unwind a bit. This means that we’ve just moved house for the fourth time in just over three months. (…)
breakout
by jebni on August 3, 2006
After having a bit of cry looking at Beirut Letters (thanks Ange), Lena and I have gone all Bay Area on your asses — we’re sitting in Starbucks with our PowerBooks open, writing collaboratively in real time with SubEthaEdit about (…)
close to “home”, so far away
by jebni on August 2, 2006
Strange to be here now, in a place where in the past few months (at least before the bombing started) hardly anyone even knew where Lebanon was. One uncle still unaccounted for. Cousin S actually saw bombs drop from IDF (…)