by rchakaki | Jan 20, 2013 | Ramblings
Here it is.. the WAY 2 Gaza campaign.. The WAY 2 Gaza is PEACE / Education / Youth / Collaboration .. Victory through community support of programs that matter. Mustaqbali is a program that matters. The Welfare Association Youth members are rallying behind the...
by rchakaki | Jan 10, 2011 | Recollections
Our neighborhood resembled the United Nations. Families from Germany, Holland, England, the USA, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, and a few other European and American nations lived in homes lining a central paved circular road, and rubble and dirt roads extending off the...
by rchakaki | Jan 9, 2011 | Recollections
The compound backed the sea. At times I heard the waves, smelled the salty water, fish and seaweed. On Thursdays, a skinny, older man named Abu-Issa came carrying a woven basket filled with fish and prawns. He wore a wrap-around long checkered skirt, a wife-beater...
by rchakaki | Jan 8, 2011 | Recollections
Our Saudi home was in a gated community on the outskirts of Dammam, close to Kateef. It must have been built in the early sixties. It housed two larger double story homes, and forty some mid-size homes. It was gated in by a palm tree branches (sa3f) fence. The...
