feb03 — Salt Films — Mudeif Productions

February 28, 2003

Marthame was lending a hand with the video conference bringing together Italians, Israelis, and Palestinians.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 28, 2003

February 27, 2003

After school, Joanna brought together about twenty girls, from first through third grade, to teach them a few basics about ballet.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 27, 2003

February 26, 2003

In other places, the water had washed out the soil beneath the road, and it had caved in in places. A couple more stuck cars decorated the side of the road.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 26, 2003

February 25, 2003

He also got to help them try on their gas masks.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 25, 2003

February 24, 2003

Marthame is teaching an introductory college-level course on Church History - 1250 to present - at Ibillin's Mar Elias College.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 24, 2003

February 23, 2003

At the Latin church in Zababdeh, today is seminary Sunday, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Roman Catholic seminary in Beit Jala.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 23, 2003

February 22, 2003

A young Palestinian man from the Jenin region fits an army profile of terrorist, and so he might not be able to travel at all.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 22, 2003

February 21, 2003

A weekend, a day of rest. The electricity problems abound, though.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 21, 2003

February 19, 2003

Why must these people, these wonderful people who have welcomed us so graciously, why must they suffer so?

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 19, 2003

February 18, 2003

The commotion yesterday afternoon took place at the home of one of the Kindergarten teachers.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 18, 2003

February 17, 2003

By nightfall, the tanks were gone, but the planes had come to take their place, circling until the wee hours of the morning. It's hard to sleep like this.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 17, 2003

February 16, 2003

No tanks today, but there was shooting at the edge of town. The Israeli camp is long gone by now, but we're still getting visits.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 16, 2003

February 15, 2003

n the evening, we met with Fr. Aktham to talk about our contingency plans. With the world situation such as it is, there's a lot of “if”ing going on.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 15, 2003

February 14, 2003

The young man tried to explain that he's been trying to get his ID changed to say Jenin, but he can't because the only place he can do so is at the Palestinian Authority Office in Jenin which no longer exists.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 14, 2003

February 13, 2003

Each car, however, was missing one tire, and the tires were stacked in a neat pile. The soldiers had come a half hour before and systematically removed one tire from each of the cars, then left. Couldn't have seemed more arbitrary unless they had set fire to the pile.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 13, 2003

February 12, 2003

In the evening, we decided to try the other movie theater in town at the Popular Arts Center.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 12, 2003

February 11, 2003

On our way back to Ramallah, we saw three women standing at the Qalandia checkpoint observing the goings-on. They were three observers from Checkpoint Watch, an Israeli group which was concerned by all of the abuses reported at various checkpoints.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 11, 2003

February 10, 2003

They grew up as children of the first Intifada; one told us as a teen she spent a night in Israeli "children's jail" - she and her friends were arrested for practicing dabke, traditional Palestinian dance.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 10, 2003

February 9, 2003

We also stopped by the school to look at the English Club, which is becoming a display room for creative English projects by the students.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 9, 2003

February 8, 2003

Tanks grinding through the hills woke us up this morning, as did shooting at the edge of town.

feb03Mudeif OfficeFebruary 8, 2003