It was the exceptional time that changed the equation, and revived the Palestinian dream. It also awakened the hidden Israeli plans: the extermination of the Palestinian people, the liquidation of their cause, and the evacuation of their land.
Author: Alaa Khaled
Born in 1960 in Alexandria, Egypt, Alaa Khaled is a poet, novelist and literary editor. In 1999, he founded the literary and cultural magazine Amkenah (Places) that focuses on the “poetry of place”. He has published collections of poetry, books of essays and reportage, among which his latest work, Alexandrian Faces.
Egyptian author Alaa Khaled observes crowds of Sudanese refugees walking to and from the nearby UNHCR office, prompting him to imagine the story of each individual and to try to understand the root causes of the current civil war and of the eternal Darfur crisis.
According to Egyptian poet Alaa Khaled, student protests in the universities in the United States and Europe are not only directed against the practices of Israel, and in solidarity with Palestine, but are an instinctive expression of the desires of young people lost in a nihilistic modern culture.