To Catch a Saint
August 16, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A poem from Dr Faysal Mikdadi
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Refugee Camp
August 11, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi
What has education done for you?
August 1, 2015 7:20 pm Leave your thoughts
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi dedicated to David Walpole
Ali
August 1, 2015 4:20 pm Leave your thoughts Dr Faysal Mikdadi writes a poem in memory of a Palestinian toddler burnt alive earlier this week by Israeli extremists
Humility
July 19, 2015 11:21 pm Leave your thoughts
A poem from Dr Faysal Mikdadi
A New Israeli-Palestinian Discourse
April 15, 2015 2:45 am Leave your thoughts There is a need for both Israelis and Palestinians to change their discourse which is based on a mixture of rewriting history, expansionist aims, victimhood and endless conspiracy theories where none exist
Winston Churchill the Novelist
February 4, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's state funeral brings out the usual accolades as well as the customary recriminations
Ageing or Just Raging
January 27, 2015 10:25 pm Leave your thoughts
The difficulty has been distinguishing between simply ageing and those aspects of our world that appear difficult to cope with regardless of age
Je suis un être humain
January 17, 2015 2:26 pm Leave your thoughts
For the first time in a long lifetime, the events in Paris have left me cold, shocked, speechless and terrified.
Cold because of its inevitable cruelty. Shocked because of the awful response from a hypocritical world. Speechless because there can be nothing I could possibly say to explain the inexplicable - to defend the indefensible. And terrified because I have brown skin, a beard and I am a Muslim Palestinian
The Pen Trumps the Sword Anytime (Part 4)
December 18, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The fourth part of an 'Introduction' to an illustrated book of poetry by Faysal Mikdadi. The collection, Painted into a Corner, appeared in the summer of 2014