Nombeko Prayer of the Salvation
7 June 2015 A Requiem for Enlightenment There sat the 72-year-old woman; patiently waiting at the communal dining table in the hostel on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, at which over the years numerous backpackers had sat. In this virtually empty “House of Peace” hostel, a dramatic event had taken place, because of […]
Funeral at the Mount of Olives
No Woman, No Cry In the society on the Mountain of Olives men and women live a segregated life, especially during the important social events. Particularly the men are fully responsible for to pay the last respect and to bury their female relatives with the absence of women testimony. This a man’s world. Women are […]
School on The Mount of Olives
20 May 2015 Searching for Meaning The party hat and the helmet While the Muezzin’s call to prayer resounds from the various minarets and the view from Ibrahim’s House of Peace roof terrace extends, via the West Bank checkpoint, as far as the Dead Sea, I need to take time to allow all the day’s events […]
Gym Mount of Olives
Be so good they can’t ignore us Having lasted more than 7 decades, the conflict in the Middle East is now an ongoing story. For all the Palestinians, coping with living amid severely distressing events is tremendously difficult to achieve. To control the uncontrollable, some of the men have endeavored to find their way of […]
In Search of Sense
No place like home
A long term project (2012-2014) about the asylem seekers in the Netherlands. Worldwide, 19.5 million people have been forced to seek sanctuary abroad. Governments have a duty to help them. But most rich countries are still treating refugees as somebody else’s problem. During the Dutch minority government (2010-2012) erroneous slogans about “free politics” became a […]