Zoya's SAS Blog

Author’s Note Dear Reader, The idea for this may seem a bit strange at first, but I urge you to give it a shot. It’s not as weird as you think. It came to me in the middle of class while I was discussing a different topic in a critique group. So many people at SAS are mixed, part Asian, part something else; I began to think: what if there was a girl just like that in a story? And, of course, not just your typical coming of age story where the girl finally comes to terms with being half one culture and half another. More of a girl who knew who she was but was held back because people were scared of her. And thus the character Amani Kearny was born. Writing her was fun and after a certain point, it was like I wasn’t typing. There’s a certain way Amani talks — loads of sarcasm along with the barest hints to what she actually feels— that makes her feel like a lot of the people that I talk to on a daily basis. Which is most likely why it was so interesting. If I had...

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LINES OF DEMARCATION: Where should the border between Israel and Palestine be drawn?  The Two State Solution: Israel becomes its own country and Palestine becomes its own country.  HOUSING SETTLEMENTS: How do you propose settling the unresolved dispute over Israeli Housing settlements into the west Bank? What should be done about the housing settlements that have already been built?  JERUSALEM: Jerusalem is a Holy City to Jews, Muslims, and Christians. How do you propose to make Jerusalem available and safe to all these groups of people worldwide?   PALESTINIAN REFUGEES: As a result of the military conflicts in 1948 and again in 1967, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people fled out of the borders of Israel to the neighboring Gaza Strip, West Bank Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. They are a people without a country and have not been allowed to become citizens to the countries they fled to. Since 1967, their numbers have increased into the millions...