ChestDoc in Palestine

I have been home for three weeks. When I got back I was so exhausted I fell ill. Back to normal now. My life has changed forever. What I wit...

After my meeting with the students, I go back to the hotel and spend the rest of the evening there. The stomach bug has really got a hold an...

After a hearty breakfast we say farewell to our hosts. We pile into a servees bound for Ramallah. It is about an hour-and-a-half away. The ...

Saed arrives as we finish breakfast. He takes us to our last stop in Nablus- the cemetery. The first grave he shows us is the Shu'bi fam...

We wake up to the sound of an announcement from the mosque's loudspeaker. The staff at the hotel tell us that a man was shot and killed ...

It is a morning of meetings again. First, Saed takes us to the stunning new campus of An-Najah University ( http://www.najah.edu/ )- the lar...

We hail a servees from outside the hotel and are soon on our way to Nablus. As I take in the rocky landscape, I cannot help thinking that P...

Today promises to be completely different. We have several high-profile meetings. The first one is with Prof Rita Giacaman, who lectures in ...

We arrive in Ramallah from Hebron mid-afternoon on day 6, just in time for our first meeting which is with Defence of Children Internationa...

Sorry I've been so late in posting this. We were in Hebron 4 days ago- since then I've been to Ramallah and arrived today in Nablus....