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<strong>The long read:</strong> At a summer camp for kids from conflict zones, I met my brave, funny friend Aseel. He was Palestinian. I was Israeli. When he was killed by police, my hope for our future died with him
All Talk This feature appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. IN THE SUMMER OF 2014, as Israeli bombs rained down on Gaza during the military incursion known as Operation Protective Edge, Salma Faysal, a 17-year-old from Ramallah, was at sleepaway camp in rural Maine. Faysal was a second-year camper at Seeds of Peace Camp, a coexistence initiative that brings Israeli and Palestinian teenagers together each summer on the shores of Pleasant Lake, an hour northwest of Portland. Every day for a little under two hours, in facilitated dialogue sessions...
Having devoted fully half of my adult life to professional and lay leadership of the Anti-Defamation Leagueâs work in our region, it is time for me to pursue other challenges in the arena of social and community justice. It is a departure laced with sadness as a lengthy chapter in my life en…
>> up next on encore booknotes susan eisenhower discusses her book, "breaking free" a memoir of love and revolution. she tells the story of her love affair and eventual marriage to a member of president gorbachev's inner circle and head of the soviet civilian space program. this program originally aired on september 13, 1995 and is about an hour. c-span: susan eisenhower, why did you call your book "breaking free"? >> guest: well, i think it was designed to accomplish a lot of things. it certainly tells a bit of the story of what my own personal struggle was that all took place again...