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2003 Stories by Nancy Updike

• Visit Palestine

  published November 20, 2003

  Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the British high commissioner for Palestine in 1935, wrote the forward to a tiny tourism booklet in which he... More >>

• Cramming in Ramallah

  published August 14, 2003

  Palestinians are in the unenviable position of needing to know a lot about places and people that they have considered enemies for years.... More >>

• Fences Make Bad Neighbors

  published July 24, 2003

  Photos by Nancy Updike It’s strange that the peace plan known as the road map, which is a very detailed document, doesn’t mention the 90-mi... More >>

• The Art of being Civilian

  published June 26, 2003

  The awful premise of suicide bombings is that there is no such thing as a civilian. A witness to last week’s attack in Jerusalem described t... More >>

• Till Peace Do Us Part

  published May 8, 2003

  Samya is 21 years old, and her life is already so screwed up I can’t tell you her real name. Four years ago, she married a man who wa... More >>

• In Search of Trust

  published May 1, 2003

  RAMALLAH — Palestinians, as a rule, do not trust their leaders. Even Palestinian leaders do not trust their leaders. “We need n... More >>

• Coffee Break

  published April 3, 2003

  On the first weekend of the war, there were at least four anti-war protests on Saturday in Ramallah. The two I saw were... More >>

• Our Bodies, Their Solutions

  published January 16, 2003

  In the parking lot of a Jack in the Box on Glendale Boulevard a few months ago, I got my body fat tested. We did it at the Jack in the Box... More >>