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I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother. Sayed Kashua

Change Change Things Other Side Tell Would Would-Be Write Had Heard Began Stories Grandmother Believing Things

I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story. Sayed Kashua

Political Father Long Trial Tell About Ideas Israelis His Years Jail Wanted Hebrew Story Who Sat Palestinian

What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national consciousness and hope will people be left with after so many years of stifling occupation and a sense of hopelessness? Sayed Kashua

Hope People Will National Sense Kind Hopelessness Morality Occupation Stifling Years Left So Many Years Form After Produce Many Palestinians Consciousness

I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way. Sayed Kashua

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family. Sayed Kashua

Family Wise Wife Clever See Always

Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates - so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer? Sayed Kashua

Too Late Will Year Spring Fall Too Late Summer Say Dates ID Institute Come Leap Mandate Convenient Holidays Regular Early

I always envied them, the owners of the cars with the white plates who can be seen around Jerusalem. I always wanted to be one of them. We call them U.N., even though U.N. are generally foreign correspondents with leased cars and yellow plates. Sayed Kashua

Car Seen White Though Generally Envied Call Around Always Foreign Yellow Owners Wanted Them Who Even Plates Jerusalem

My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought. Sayed Kashua

Thought Horrifying Know Children Who Even

Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating. Sayed Kashua

Television Since Felt Brain Being

Americans are connected to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and Israel because, generally speaking, Jewish Americans were always there, and many American Jewish people connect their nationality to the Israeli one. Sayed Kashua

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else. Sayed Kashua

Else Defines More More Than Anything Israel Than Anything Anything Else Palestinians

There is really no place for individuals in Israel. Sayed Kashua

Individuals Israel Place Really

We were, as Arabs in Israel, educated not to leave our villages, in order to protect our identity. Sayed Kashua

Our Arabs Protect Identity Israel Leave Educated Were Order Villages

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