Articles By Mazin Qumsiyeh
On Need for Action
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Thursday 3 October 2024 - Genre: Palestine File
Reminder: There is an ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Maybe we need reminder of other facts showing why this matters globally and ask how we collectively can act to stop being pushed into a c...
Al Aqsa Flood
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Sunday 8 October 2023 - Genre: Palestine File
I received dozens of messages inquiring about my thoughts on what is going on now in Palestine and how we are doing and what is going to happen. I also did some TV & Radio interviews. It is really...
Shireen Abu Aqleh shot dead while covering Israeli military operation in Jenin
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Wednesday 11 May 2022 - Genre: Palestine File
It is so hard for me to write today- too many tears. The US supported Israeli occupation forces' crimes continue daily but some days are harder than others. Shireen Abu Aqleh, wearing blue h...
Touched by COVID 19
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Wednesday 26 January 2022 - Genre: Health
For four days now my old body is fighting the COVID19. IN this I had joined some 360 million fellow human beings. I was reluctant to write on this for many reasons including that the experiences of ma...
A Palestinian's Reflections on International Women's Day
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Monday 8 March 2021 - Genre: Palestine File
Today is International Women's Day On this occasion, we can only humbly thank them. For me, I can start with my wife (fellow full time volunteer), my mother, my sisters, the women staff and volun...
O Palestine
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Wednesday 22 November 2017 - Genre: Poetry
Your sisters stayed in their palaces With golden chains and shameless lies Some grinned and aided criminals... Others chose to veil their eyes Some justify rape and expulsions Others prayed to th...
The Cucumber and the Cactus (A Palestinian Christian Story)
By: Mazin Qumsiyeh on: Sunday 19 November 2017 - Genre: Essays
There is something uniquely spiritual, yet uniquely primeval, in people connected to a land. Even for those of us who work in a sophisticated and mobile culture, simply to get our hands into the earth...
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