Things here are not improving — if anything, they are getting worse. The settlers' movement is out of control in the occupied territories, with support from the police and the army, and the so-called "moderate" right-wing and center politicians. People here are hopeful that the elections, sixty days from now, will change things, but I am skeptical. I try to scream — both verbally and with new pieces — and I volunteer to help those trying to protect the victims. Meanwhile, I just received the...

It's been two years since I wrote anything here. Two terrible years living under a government that is abusing innocent people that includes dissenters within the country, in the occupied territories through the "settlers" movement, officially supported by the army and the police; in Gaza, where a so-called ceasefire doesn't stop the army from killing and destroying, in Iran for the last half a year together with the Americans, civilians and infrastructure are the ones hurt most, and in...

While my world here seems to be coming apart, composing seems like the only meaningful thing I can do. Every time I try to do write in...