Help complete ‘Dancing Under Apartheid: A Poetic Memoir of Palestine’

After living in Ramallah for two years, I am in the process of writing a memoir of my time there, called Dancing Under Apartheid. In order to support the writing of the book and get it to publication, I have launched a Kickstarter campaign. I am really excited and passionate about writing this book, and am eager to share the project with Mondoweiss readers.

Kickstarter is a grass-roots platform to raise funds for creative projects, in exchange for various rewards for backers, in this case, copies of the book, amongst other things. It is an all-or-nothing venture, so I need to raise an additional $8,000 by September 9, or no money changes hands.

From the description on my Kickstarter page:

“As an American living in Ramallah, I quickly came to understand how little I had known about Palestine. Dancing Under Apartheid, a memoir of my time there, offers a look at my struggle to comprehend the situation and paints a portrait of everyday life in the West Bank.

Through poetry and essays, I explore what it has been like living in Ramallah over a time period that spans from the runup to the Arab Spring, to the historic Palestinian prisoner hunger strike this year. These two years saw the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN and UNESCO’s declaration of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem as a world heritage site. With these events as a backdrop, I write about the joys and sorrows of life in Palestine.”

Additionally, I did a recent interview about the book and my Kickstarter campaign with Sylvia Global radio station on BlogTalk Radio.

Thank you for your support!