Where Should The Birds Fly?

Where should the birds fly? Fida and Mona: A Palestine Duet In 2005 I was working with a journalist. Then we became very good friends. She asked me if I want to be a journalist and my immediate response was NO…who wants to be a journalist flying from one country to another. But a year later, everything changed. When I left Gaza on a journey to Europe and the USA. Because on the way back me and my family waited at the crossing for 3 weeks and I had to write about what I felt about it. And from there my journalism started. It wasn’t prepared and it wasn’t something I wanted to do. We suffer together we live together was my first article published by the observer I expected myself to write in Arabic but my fingers were typing English instead of Arabic…years ago I write my friends in English and my fingers got used to writing in English and to write to my friend in London it had to be in English. And she said we have to have it published. At the crossing I used to get phone calls from friends to ask if I could get back home…no I am stuck at the crossing and people were asking me take pictures, take pictures. We will cover you. The women used to surround me and sit, I would sit in the middle and take pictures, these were the first pictures to come out from the Rafah crossing at the Egyptian border. Crossing…inside the terminal. December 27th, 2008. I was visiting a friend at the border and suddenly the bombs started landing everywhere. We ran outside the house and we were looking for where is the sound coming from. We saw the smoke coming from different places. People were confused where to run…but I had to run to the smoke because I had to cover what was going on. I was the first journalist to arrive to the scene. I called my brother on the cell phone. to bring the camera. Mixed feelings. I had to run to the scene and meet him there. I was the first journalist there. To film people running was awesome. People running. Showed the fear. The realit...

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