Life in Occupied Palestine: Three

Words/Phrases that Evoke an Architectural Thinking (Space, Concept, Program)

"Over coffee and cookies, students and faculty members told us of their experiences of being imprisoned, or having loved ones detained for participating in nonviolent protests, or throwing rocks at invading Israeli tanks or at Israeli soldiers coming onto their campuses."

"...debating with urgent

Steel Netting

"...particularly important because, if you google specific locations in Ramallah, you will get a map of only a few streets, most of them with no names."

"...we sat in the outdoor courtyard, encircled by a mix of cityscape and green shady trees..."

"...I realized that her cafe was a cultural hub..."

"...I took out my phone and snapped a few photos as we approached the Qalandia checkpoint... The sun was slanting down and, with the glare from the windows and my awkward angle of approach, I could not quite capture the menace of its towering steel and concrete greyness..."

"...the only others still on my phone were of Morgan and Saleh's cafe and garden."

"...window into a Palestine that is seldom seen by those who have not themselves crossed into the West Bank..."

"The lively cafe setting — the mix of people working on laptops, texting on their cell phones, or conversing over a cardamom-spiced coffee or a mint lemonade — and the garden, with its proliferation of fruit trees, herbs vegetables, and chickens, capture a Palestine that persists in spite of..."

"I hate

"...time and again I witnessed by past and present "...codified in some of the more than fifty laws that discriminate against Palestinian Citizens of Israel."

"...she refused

"By contrast, the photos into a Palestine that

" ...everyday and extraordinary

"...life narratives that

"...infiltrates even the most

"...our mundane begins the home of the dead "...life narratives that include and often intermix diaries, letters, Facebook updates, oral histories, memoir, interviews, poetry, photographs, analysis and theory."

"So, too, resistance is encoded..."

"... move from coffee

" When Palestine has

Overtake "... defended "...infiltrates even the most mundane aspects of my days and nights. My mundane used to begin with a pot of coffee, shared with my husband...Before the city awakens, as we enjoy our coffee, the garden is full of birds' chirping and nothing else..."

"The mundane should "... move from coffee to demonstration, from chants to the only weapon we have — rocks — met with indiscriminate fire and more death and more ahwe sada."

"...I gave her coffee to home — ahwe sada

" The Israeli military occupation drink in our " Cindy delivered Arabic coffee to me, which she had transferred into a plain plastic bag at Morgan's recommendation to obscure its Palestinian origin so as to make it through Israeli airport security."

" The British collaborated

" Cindy delivered Arabic recommendation