A Message from Dr. Zeina Kiblawi:
Finally made it to our hotel, after a 7 hour detainment and repeated (insulting and meaningless) interrogations at Tel Aviv airport. Apparently, the desire to help Palestinian neonates is a “security threat.” They can detain me and harass me for 7 days, I will still assert my right to return to my homeland.
Dr. Kiblawi was a student of mine, fall 2002, at Saint Louis University. She, Lubna Alam and Layla Lavasani inspired me to go work with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine in 2003.