Category Archives: ScotBlogs Contributed

I can’t believe how quickly June has flown by; camp will be here any minute now! We just mailed out the general letter, so you’ll hopefully be getting your hands on that soon.  It should answer many questions regarding housing, computer &… Continue reading →

When we arrived in the West Bank on Sunday, our guide – the utterly inimitable Yahav – greeted us in this way: Welcome to…I don’t know how to finish that sentence. You may have noticed that there is no welcome … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m sitting here in the lobby of the Golden Walls hotel in Jerusalem, beside windows that look out at the walls of the Old City, and perhaps it sounds strange but I feel like I’ve roamed a place I’ve read … Continue reading → Continue reading →

By Parisa Ahmadi ..Still, I understood… What is the balance in being pragmatic about the distribution of resources while giving respect and value to communities various ways of living? When is social change “natural” and “good”, and when is … Continue reading →

As a newcomer to these issues, to me, there seemed to be underlying contradictions in the discourses of the various speakers in Amman, Jordan. On the one hand, speakers were saying that the road map for the two-state solution is … Continue readin… Continue reading →

This long and weathered tusk sits in a display case outside my office. It is from the American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) and was found many decades ago in Holmes County, just south of Wooster. A tooth found with it was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Since I’m an in abstentia member of this intrepid Hales Group travel team, I’m contributing a brief post in response to their visit to the Jordanian coast of the Dead Sea. This spring an Independent Study student (Melissa Torma) and …… Continue reading →

If it is a 6am wake up call, then it must be our border crossing day! With the the first openings at 8am, we were up early and moving out to ensure that we got across from Jordan and into … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Jordan River is gone. According to Abdel Rahman Sultan of Friends of the Earth Middle East, what little remains consists of untreated or poorly treated sewage, as well as other waste water. Hardly the grand river of Muslim, Jewish, … Continue… Continue reading →

By Kristen Connors. At the CSIM lectures we undergo a different type of learning than when we are with our organizations. Continue reading → Continue reading →