Leaving Haifa

I’ve now been back in Montréal for just over a month. I initially left Haifa at the end of May and returned again in the beginning of July. Having taken no time to work through my first three months of fieldwork, I quickly realized that my return to Haifa was too quick and ill-prepared. In [...]

Posted at 15:14 on 08/09/2009 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Anthropology, Middle East, Palestine/Israel | Tagged: , | read on

Leaving Ramallah

A couple weeks before returning to Montreal I was at Bilal’s when his mother asked whether I had yet been to Jerusalem. Besides the day at the Supreme Court shortly after I arrived, which did not include anything but the Supreme Court, I replied that I had not. I wanted to go but other things [...]

Posted at 07:11 on 03/06/2009 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Anthropology, Middle East, Palestine/Israel | Tagged: , | read on