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What I'm writing (and debuting) this spring

I’ve been wanting to write up an inventory of destroyed cultural heritage in Gaza. I had a nightmare about Gaza recently. In this dream, I flew into Gaza’s airport (which was, in non-dreaming reality, destroyed and made non-operational back in the 2000s). The airport was bustling with people speaking Arabic, tourists and business people alike. It was a vision of Gaza in the future. A free Gaza. And then I headed down a rabbit hole of lists upon lists of other sites (besides the airport) that have been destroyed, especially in the past two years. And it left me sobbing at my desk, because there is no way to describe the near-complete destruction of Gaza, including its cultural heritage, without the word genocide. It is so clear.

That post is still in process. This fortnight’s 700/14 post is, rather, my usual periodic “Hot off the Press” collection of current writing (as well as old writings that are finally seeing the light of day).

Read on to the bottom of the post for info on my 700/…