Author and blogger Judy Mandelbaum recently quoted from my ‘Nakba of Olives‘ post (which is itself an excerpt from my book-in-progress) in her piece called “Is the Star of David becoming the new Swastika?” Mandelbaum writes about instances when Israelis have defaced Palestinian property with spray-painted Stars of David. She quotes the part in my […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
Rules and loyalties
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Recently I broke one of the cardinal rules of nonfiction writing: I let someone I was writing about read what I had written. The person, ‘Katerina,’ was a Greek-Cypriot I met while doing research for my walls book in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus. I learned a lot about the Cyprus Conflict from Katerina […]
Welcome to the new ‘Elsewhere’
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
After much consideration, I’ve decided to move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. I love this new layout. I’ve added a little bit more of a bio on the ‘About Me’ page, and my writing resume on the ‘Curriculum Vitae’ page. for editors (and anyone else, I suppose). Every posting, comment and photo from my […]
The City and the Dogs
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I found a wonderful article on the Huffington Post today. The posting is from the blog of Ir Amim, an Israeli non-profit that works to examine issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within Jerusalem. When I was last in Jerusalem, I took a tour of East Jerusalem with Ir Amim. The author of this story, Yizhar […]
Life through a new lens
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
A short piece a wrote for the University of Calgary’s Alumni magazine has just been published. In it, I talk a little about my walls project and my own origins as a writer. You can find it here. I just finished a first draft of half of my walls book – I will need to […]
A Nakba of Olives – an excerpt
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
[What follows is an excerpt from my Walls book-in-progress. This is from my chapter about the West Bank Wall called ‘A Nakba of Olives.’ Most of the chapter is about my time in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, and this excerpt is part of a longer account of an anti-Wall demonstration I observed there last […]
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