Some asked me recently

where my favorite place in all of Palestine was. I've seen some heartwrenching landscapes and met amazing people, but this is my answer.

jersualem sunday by Suhair Hammad jeru salem sun day three muezzins call idan where one’s allah begins another’s akbar ends inviting the last to witness mohammad’s prophecies church bells ring the sky an ocean shade of blue above christ’s tomb and the stones of this city witness man’s weakness boys run by the torah strapped to their third eye ready to rock their prayers the roofs of this city busy as the streets the gods of this city crowded and proud two blind and graying arab men lead each other through the old city surer of step than sight tourists pick olives from the cracks in the faces of young and graying women selling mint onions and this year’s oil slick on the ground this city is wind breathe it sharp this history is blood swallow it warm this sunday is holy be it god