Before displacement and before the Israeli unlawful occupation, people had the freedom of choice! The reader feels displaced in time, place, and theme through a narrative that describes Palestine as it used to be; Palestine that we see in

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Amna’s grandfather recalls a part of Qatar’s history that we are now as Qataris very proud of. Qatar’s history involved two narratives; a narrative of the sea and a narrative of the desert. To know our history, we need to learn how both narrati

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    The notion of change can bring about numerous kinds of feelings. Whether excitement or fear, change is inevitable in our daily lives. Only when we allow ourselves to change from within, do we realize we have improved not only ourselves but

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  Stories of occupation and resistance should be told by people who witnessed it. Arab countries have been subjected to centuries of colonialism and are living through a phase of new-colonialism. “Freedom” is an abstract concept that doesn’

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  Mohammed Alhamadi is a Standards Engineer working in the Quality Assurance Department in Qatar Petroleum, and an art student in Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Although he has already graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering f

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  In a biographical manner, Amna Khalid Al-Hetmi sheds the light on the life of Nadira, the manicurist. Nadira is a simple working woman, whose greatness stems from her simplicity. Amna is an Information Systems junior at Carnegie Mellon Universi

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In a narrative manner Lulwah Al-Thani records a historical tragedy that was transmitted to us orally; a tragedy that had a major impact on the Qatari society in the early 70s. Lulwah proves capable of narrating our own history, using our own native w

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Myriam Chandna is a Professional Writing and English major at Carnegie Mellon University. She is an avid reader, writer, and dreamer - with a strong bias towards the last of those exertions. Here, she narrates a part of her ancestors’ history. T

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Amna Al Thani captures a scene she witnessed with words, still artistically leaving herself out of the picture and utilizing a camera’s functions of spanning, zooming in and zooming out.   Amna Abdulaziz Jassim Hamad Al Thani is a Qatari who

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Omar Shaat connects with his grandmother who connects him with a historical period that he wasn’t apart of, yet has affected and shaped his life as well as millions and millions of displaced Palestinians. Omar Shaat is a junior in Information Syste

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