View from the Big Hills

  “To Alef, the letter that begins the alphabets of both Arabic and Hebrew- two Semitic languages, sisters for centuries. May we find the language that takes us to the only home there is - one another's hearts. Alef knows That a thread Of a story Stitches together A wound.”    - Ibtisam Barakat, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, Palestinian-American writer, poet, and educator