The following is an alphabetical list of topics and/or possible chapter titles for a book I was working on in 2011. At this stage, it was autobiographical. It eventually morphed and became the novel, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine. Some of what’s below found a home there…
A Little Taste/ [Detention]
A Little Taste
Accompaniment/1
Accompaniment/2
Accompaniment/3
Activist
Administrative Detention
Ahlan wa-sahlan
Aide-Memoire
Aide-Memoire
Al-Hamdulilah
Al-Quds
Al-Quds
Allah
American Activists
Analogies/1
Analogies/2
Analogies/3
Anger/1
Anger/2
Anger (or, Fury)
Anti-Semitism/1
Anti-Semitism/2: Review of Finkelstein
Apartheid
Apartheid
Apathy
Arabic [see Lexicon]
Arabic lessons
Arabic expression for Profession of Faith, What Israel wants, there is no God but Israel
Aspiration/1
Aspiration/2
Asymmetry
Being Jewish/1
Being Jewish/2
Bearing Witness/1 [Shehadeh critique]
Benevolent Gazing
Blaming the Victims
Blindness/1
Blindness/2
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
Buddhas in Israel/1
Buddhas in Israel/2
Buddha Smiles in Hell
Buddha Smiles in Hell
Burnout
Bystander
Candor: The Refreshing & Horrifying Quality of Candor: on Benny Morris
Carter
Catastrophe [al-Nakba]
Causes
Celebrities
Chants
Characters
Checkpoint/1
Checkpoint/2
Children
Chomsky/1: hope isn’t the point, Chomsky’s Wager
Chomsky/2
Chronicles of the Abyss
Collateral Damage
Colonization
Comfort Zone/1
Comfort Zone/2
Comfort Zone/3
Community/1
Community/2
Community/3
Compromismo
Contact
Correspondence/1 [An Open Letter]
Correspondence/2
Correspondence/3
Corrie
Courage
Courage
Criminality
Critics
Curfews
Daily Life
Daily Life
Daydreams/1
Daydreams/2
Death
Defamation
Deir Yassin
Delusions/1
Delusions/2
Denial
Denunciation
Despair
Despair
Devotion
Dialogue/1
Dialogue/2
Dialogue/3
Diet/1
Diet/2
Direct Contact
Disputation/1 [Lerner]
Disputation/2 [Said]
Dissidents/1: A Meditation on Adi Ophir [see also righteous Jews]
Dissidents/2: A Meditation on Idith Zertal
Dissidents/3: A Meditaiton on Gideon Levy
Dissidents/4: A Meditation on Refuseniks
Documentation
Don’t Expect Applause
Double-Standards/1
Double-Standards/2: on security
Empowering Direct Action/1 [see Starhawk and KK books]
Empowering Direct Action/2
Empowering Direct Action/3
Engaged/1: Nhat Hanh quote downstairs
Engaged: Sontag quote in Where the Stress Falls
Episodes (Wiesel)
Episodes
Ethics of Power/1
Ethics of Power/2
Experiment
Experiment
Extremists
Facts/1: about water
Facts/2: about land confiscation
Facts/3: on torture
Facts/4: parallel, Nazi expropriation [see Hilberg]
Fear: The Contagion of fear: at the Huwarra checkpoint with the schoolgirls
Falafel
Film/1: Battle of Algiers
Film/2: Open City
Film/3: Palestine is still the Issue
Food
Free Gaza
Ghettos/1
Ghettos/2
Golden Rule/1
Golden Rule/2
Guilt/1
Guilt/2
Guilt/3
Hasbara
Hillel
History 101/1
History 101/2
Hitler [Gaza Story]
Holocaust/Nakba/1
Home Demolitions
Hope/1 [on Berrigan]
Hope/2 [to Dianne, on Solnit]
Hospitality
Humiliation as a Method
Incursions
Insha’allah
Insomnia
Intellectuals
Intellectuals
Interbeing
Interbeing
Interference/1 [see also Protest]
Interference/2
Interference/3
Intifada
Investigation/1
Investigation/2
Investigation/3
Isaiah
Islam
Jaffa
Jesus/1 [Christ vomit]
Jesus (Yeshua)/2
Jesus (Issa)/3
Jewish Supremacy
Kafka’s Axe/1: On Jean Genet
Kafka’s Axe: On Gutierrez’s Las Casas
Kafka’s Axe: On Grossman’s Life and Fate
Kafka’s Axe; on Grossman’s See Under: Love
Kafka’s Axe: On Khoury’s Gate of the Sun
Kafka’s Axe: On Fisk’s The Great War for Civilization
Kafkaesque
Karen House/1: death of Sade
Karen House/2:
Karen House/3
Karma Yoga
Koan
Labels
Learning Arabic/1
Learning Arabic/2
Learning Arabic/3
Lexicon/1: intifada [include Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic, German]
Lexicon/2: tsuris
Lexicon/3: chutzpah
Lexicon/4: The Meaning of the Word “Asymmetric” [or, Lexicon]
Lexicon/5: Yesh Gvul
Lexicon/6 Realidad
Liberals/1
Liberals/2
Lies/1
Lies/2
Lies/3
Life under Occupation: Crucifixion in Roman-occupied Palestine [or, Scenes from…]
Life under Occupation: Nazi-occupied Poland
Life under Occupation: Palestine
Life under Occupation: Iraq
Listening
Living in Truth/1
Living in Truth/2
Living in truth/3
Lotus/1
Lotus/2
Masters and Slaves
Matrix of Control/1
Matrix of Control/2
Matrix of Control/3
Matrix of Control/4
Media Literacy 101/1: develop from PPPL video
Media Literacy 101/2
Meditation/1
Meditation/2
Meditation/3
Memoricide
Memory
Mensch
Mensch
Monitoring
My Argument with Daniel Berrigan
My Argument with Edward Said
My Argument with Rabbi Lerner
Nakba/Shoah
Nakba/Shoah
Names/1: Palestine
Names/2: Chmiel
Names/3: Chmiel
Narratives/1
Narratives/2
Nay-Sayers
Nay-Sayers
Negation/1 There is No Palestine
Negation
Not in the News
Not in the News
Nonviolence
The Official Story/1
The Official Story/2
Olives
Olives
On the Ground
On the ground
One-Liners/1
One-Liners/2
One-Sided/1
One-Sided/2
Pathologies/1 [Israeli]
Pathologies/2 [Palestinian]
Pathologies/3 [American]
Poem/1 [Something from Brecht]
Poem/2: something from Shabtai
Poem/3: something from Darwish
Phenomenology of Humiliation
Photo/1: meditation a la Sontag—Jennifer Presson
Photo/2: on Abu Ahmed
Photo/3
Photo/4
Poem/1 [Something from Brecht]
Poem/2: something from Shabtai
Poem/3: something from Darwish
Practice/1: [deep listening?]
Practice/2: [loving speech?]
Practice/3
Preferential Options
Preferential Option for the Dispossessed
Prison
Professions
Profile/1: Paul Larudee
Profile/2: Ibrahim Imam
Profile/3: Jean Abbott
Profile/4: Karen
Profile/5: Mazen
Profile/6: Zeina
Profile/7: Hedy
Project
The Prophetic
Protest/1: CAT 2004
Protest/2
Protest/3
Purity of Arms
Questions/1
Questions/2
Questions/3
Radical
Rafah
Ramallah
Reading/Answerability/1
Reading/Answerability/2
Reading/Answerability/3
Real World/1
Real World/2
Real World/3
Reading/Answerability/1
Reading/Answerability/2
Reading/Answerability/3
The Refreshing & Horrifying Quality of Candor: on Benny Morris
Refuseniks
Remembrance
Remembering the Dead
Responsibility/1
Responsibility/2
Righteous Jews
Righteous Jews
Risks/1
Risks/2
Risks/3
Roads
Salvation
Schools
Security
Seeing
Self-Consciousness
Self-Hatred/1
Self-Hatred/2
Semantics
Settlers
Settlements
Shadow
Shaheed
Sheep to the Slaughter
Shoah/Nakba
Shoah/Nakba
Signs
Signs
Sites of Resistance
Sitting
Social Location/1
Social Location/2
Solidarity
Song/1
Song/2
Song/3: Joe Carr’s rap???
Spiral of Violence/1
Spiral of Violence/2
Spiral of Violence/3
Status Questiones
A Student/1
A Student/2
A Student/3
Study/1
Study/2
Study/3
Study/4
Submission
Suicide Bombing
Summons to Jews
Sumud
T-Shirts
Taking Sides
A Taste/1
A Taste/2
A Taste/3
Teachings/1
Teachings/2
Teachings/3
Teachings/4
Testimony/1
Testimony/2
Theater
Tikkun
Torture/1
Torture/2
Torture/3
Training
Transfer
Translations
Trauma/1
Trauma/2: Jenna Presson’s kid friend from Nablus
Trauma/3
Trees
True Names/1
True Names/2
Truth and Propaganda/1
Truth and Propaganda/2
Unworthy Victims/1
Unworthy Victims/2
Urgency
Violence/1: the matrix of control
Violence/2: resistance, NV or violent
Violence/3: repression
Walking
Wall
West/East Diana
What You Can Do for Palestine & Israel: 50 Ginsbergian suggestions
Why Go To Palestine/1
Why Go to Palestine/2
Wiesel/1
Wiesel/2
Worthy and Unworthy Memories
Worthy Victims/1
Worthy Victims/2
Writing/1
Writing/2
Writing/3
Yiddish
