Nora Lester Murad - The View From My Window in Palestine

  • About Me
    • Bio
    • Contact Me
    • Sign up for updates
  • My Writing
    • Life Under Occupation
    • Video/Radio
    • Guest Posts
    • Aid and Development
    • Gaza!
    • Palestinian Literary Scene
  • My Books
    • Ida in the Middle
    • Rest in My Shade
    • I Found Myself in Palestine
  • Shop
  • Email
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Archive

Pages:

  • Archive
  • Blog
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Contact Me
  • Gaza and My Birthday!
  • My account
  • Shop
  • Shop
  • Sign up for updates
  • Thank you for Subscribing!
  • About Me
  • My Writing
  • Events
  • Causes I Care About

Categories:

  • Aid and Development
  • Appearances and Reviews
  • Book Reviews
  • Gaza!
  • Guest Posts
  • Life Under Occupation
  • Palestinian Literary Scene
  • Poetry
  • Published Writing
  • Rants
  • Video/Radio

Authors:

  • Nora Lester Murad (236)

Monthly:

  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • April 2023
  • January 2023
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • March 2022
  • November 2021
  • May 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • December 2018
  • September 2018
  • July 2018
  • May 2018
  • October 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • January 2017
  • November 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • January 2016
  • October 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • June 2011
  • February 2011
  • October 2010
  • August 2010
  • June 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • December 2009
  • January 2009
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • January 2006
  • December 2005
  • August 1998
  • January 1997

Recent Posts:

  • Is Fire Enough to Get Americans to Empathize with Palestinians?
  • CNN essentially publishes ADL PR, fails to investigate recent educational conference accusations
  • Educators Beware: The Anti-Defamation League Is Not the Social Justice Partner It Claims to Be
  • I wrote three OpEds for The Forward. They published zero.
  • How to justify the genocide of Palestinians in 14 easy steps: A graphical guide
  • Unleashing Abolitionist Logic on International Aid
  • Reflections on Gaza: The Day After
  • Anas Abu Jamous is 10-years old and Paralyzed
  • OPINION: Uplifting Palestinian American students makes everyone safer (Hechinger Report)
  • On the 7th day of the 2023 War…
  • How to be a friend to a family at risk of demolition?
  • Book Review: The Waiting Place by Dina Nayeri with photos by Anna Bosch Miralpeix
  • “Ida in the Middle” Book Launch at Brookline Booksmith with Areen Bahour
  • “YA Arab American novels: Bringing Palestine into our fictional world” by Nada Elia
  • Rockstar Palestinian Educators Discuss Teaching Palestine in US schools
  • Censorship of Palestinians is So Normal, Even Antiracists Don’t See It
  • Narratives of Belonging: A Convo at the Build Palestine Summit 2022 among Nora Lester Murad, Aline Batarseh and Besan Abu-Joudeh
  • Interview with Ahed Tamimi, an Icon of the Palestinian Resistance
  • Palestinian Erasure Starts in Preschool—With Sesame Street’s Endorsement
  • Did Public TV Doc Promote Peaceful Coexistence—or the UAE? 
  • The Mapping Project is Not Antisemitic but it is Destructive Activism
  • Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”
  • Aiding Liberation, a book chapter
  • Pushing back against right wing attacks on education by centering Palestinian voices
  • Podcast: Mouin Rabbani interviews Nora Lester Murad & Alison Glick on Jadiliyya
  • My people are from…
  • Can a body?
  • Fiction, reality, the US police, the Red Cross & Palestinians
  • نورا مراد: فلسطين بعين أجنبيةكلمات نشاط سياسي زياد منى السبت 28 تشرين الثاني 2020
  • Interview on Boston Media Theory with Marcus Breen
  • An Interview With Author and Activist Nora Lester Murad: Palestinian Narratives, Shared Trauma, and Moving Forward as a Community by Ramona Wadi
  • Build Palestine’s Social Innovation Summit: Overcoming Donor Dependency
  • Black Lives Matter: Race & Power in Philanthropy and Development
  • “The Dissonance”
  • When foreigners move to Palestine, a review of “I Found Myself in Palestine”
  • It’s 2020. Does the United Nations care about Gaza?
  • I woke up this morning feeling so very white
  • Black Lives Matter: The Best Thing That’s Happened to Palestinians in a Very Long Time
  • Authors’ Talk (June 2020)
  • Launching a book in the midst of a pandemic
  • Do today’s concurrent actions by Central Americans and Palestinians show a historic convergence of protest?
  • “Rest in My Shade” – finally a real book
  • More Important Than Becoming a Writer…
  • Philanthropy to Israel and Palestine – it’s time to change the framing
  • Deeper issues for Arab philanthropy need to be discussed
  • Palestinian Women Are Harassed and Humiliated at Checkpoints. Here Are a Few of Their Stories
  • Excerpt from “Does Your Financial Report Make People Feel Poor?”
  • Excerpt from “The Dissonance”
  • The Militarization of Palestinian Aid
  • Iftar on the rubble
  • Baby ‘Aya’ is only 2 months old, and she’s already a victim of home demolition
  • What do I say to Abu Fathi?
  • Smart Risks
  • Through the Window of Juwahir’s Old, Gray Chevy
  • Palestine chapter on global commitments to aid effectiveness
  • When Nurredin calls me at 5am, it means something bad is happening
  • On Translation: Shadi Rohana on the Joys and Disasters of Spanish-Arabic Translation
  • Come with me to Gaza (photo essay)
  • I paid my privilege for a ticket, hopeful
  • Rights-based aid goes beyond the transparency of data
  • In Solidarity with Ashraf Fayadh
  • Palestine today offers a “perfect storm” of possibility
  • ‘Chief Complaint’: Vignettes from Village Palestine
  • United Palestinian Appeal: Example of a Solidarity Donor?
  • One Year After Ceasefire, ‘Temporary’ Housing for Gazans Seems to be Permanent
  • A New Aid for Palestinians
  • Six Steps to “Dignified Interdependence”
  • Community Transformation is Local Work
  • Happy birthday to me, again
  • My trip to Gaza 2015
  • Israel devastated Gaza, but “aid” helps keep it that way
  • Malala, where is your money?
  • How much is owed to Gaza? Does anyone know? This is not a rhetorical question. I’m really asking!
  • During Gaza
  • Donor complicity in Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights
  • Un-friending Guy Hazan
  • Rant on Humanitarianism
  • Guest post: “I thought I was going to die, but it turned out to be my cousin” by Ahmed AlQattawi
  • Guest post: “When the Gaza Sky Burst into Flames” by Mahmoud Khalaf
  • Guest post: John Hanna on the source of the conflict
  • Najla Shawa talks about #GazaUnderAttack on July 23, 2014
  • My appearance on RT’s CrossTalk
  • #GazaUnderAttack
  • US complicity in Israel’s attack on Gaza
  • Gaza under fire: What does it mean for philanthropy?
  • B- for my Gaza birthday campaign but an A for effort
  • Ambiguity on the Jerusalem Train
  • Keep Your Eye on the Wall (Jadiliyya)
  • Israel’s Creative Dispossession Tactics (Aljazeera)
  • Happy birthday to me
  • Separated from son in Gaza
  • The beach in Gaza
  • Music in Gaza
  • Solidarity matters to Gaza
  • Weddings in Gaza
  • Even more about electricity in Gaza
  • Cousins in Gaza
  • Stuck in Gaza
  • Humanitarian aid to Gaza
  • Recycling in Gaza

Recent Posts

  • Is Fire Enough to Get Americans to Empathize with Palestinians?
  • CNN essentially publishes ADL PR, fails to investigate recent educational conference accusations
  • Educators Beware: The Anti-Defamation League Is Not the Social Justice Partner It Claims to Be
  • I wrote three OpEds for The Forward. They published zero.
  • How to justify the genocide of Palestinians in 14 easy steps: A graphical guide

Tweets!

Could not authenticate you.
  • Contact Me
  • About Me
  • Archive
  • Sign up for updates

Copyright © 2025, All rights reserved
Website Maintained by AtefDesign