had the pleasure of hosting 5 palestinian academics for dinner at our house last night. they are guests of the dept of state’s intl visitor leadership program and they’re all from the west bank. we had v interesting discussions about american perceptions vs palestinian reality. they were happy to learn about the witness palestine film festival and had much to say about the films we selected. we had home cooked aloo keema, daal and bhindi. sufian, who is a linguist, told me about the roots of urdu and other languages from the indian subcontinent. “see u in palestine” they said, as we said goodbye. from left: ekrema, sufian, mahmoud, myself, lourdes and luna.
