Archive for the Gaza category
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Today my book Zen Under Fire is officially launched in to the world. Well, mostly it is being launched into New Zealand – but thanks to the magic of the internet you can order it from wherever you are (and have it delivered to most places). Zen Under Fire is a book about my experiences [...]
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
This week I've enjoyed watching different threads of my life weave together. If you asked me to list the themes, issues, places and practices that are part of my life today that list would include: writing; meditation; yoga; practicing peace; social justice and human rights activism; environmental activism; Gaza; Afghanistan; film; books; ethical consuming; food [...]
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
An old friend of mine, one of the many wonderful Israelis I met while I was living and working in Gaza, now works for Gisha. Gisha is an Israeli human rights organisation that focuses on the right to freedom of movement for Palestinians. Recently Yoni Goodman, the head animator from "Waltz with Bashir" (award winning [...]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Tahir wasn’t a stereotypical angry young Palestinian man. He was gentle and intellectual and very sensitive. He had travelled on a scholarship to Norway to do his masters degree in political science and now worked at PCHR as a political researcher and analyst. Having spent those years living in a Western country, staying in a [...]
Posted in Gaza, WIP extract | 6 Comments »
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
In response to my last book extract, which was about my time in Gaza, a few people have asked me for recommendations of good books that could help them learn more about the situation in Gaza or for ideas for what they could do to help. The first book I always recommend is Drinking the [...]
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
It has been a while since I published a book extract. I developed some concerns about the privacy of people who appear in the book and haven't yet decided how best to handle them. But here is an extract I wrote this week where I've chosen for the moment just to use random names. Although [...]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Early sunrise, 2009. Waipero Bay, East Cape, New Zealand. I've been away for a long time. Today I think that I might be back, in the sense of an actual return to regular posting here. But these days I'm increasingly likely not to do what I say I'm going to do, it seems to be [...]
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