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Writer: Dalia Nammari

March 31, 2013
10:50 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Executive Committee of the PLO, in Ramallah in January. (Photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas clamps down on critics, despite promises to the contrary

Targets of crackdown include Hamas supporters; ex-adviser says Fatah leaders fear they have ‘lost their grip on Palestinian society’

By Dalia Nammari and Karin Laub

March 18, 2013
11:47 am

A Samaritan prays during a pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover at Mount Gerizim on the outskirts of Nablus, May 11, 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

European women give hope to Samaritans

To preserve its ancient culture, which dates back to biblical times, the dwindling sect opens its community to imported brides

By Dalia Nammari

December 25, 2012
12:16 pm

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, center, holds a Baby Jesus statue in Saint Catherine's Church at the end of the Christmas Midnight Mass, and leads the procession to the Grotto, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, at the nearby Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem on Tuesday, December 25, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Abed Al Hashlamoun, Pool)

Worshipers rejoice in Jesus’s Bethlehem birthplace

Pilgrims line up inside the fourth-century Church of the Nativity complex to celebrate Christmas

By Dalia Nammari

December 24, 2012
10:09 pm

Armenian Christians celebrate Christmas in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2012. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Political issues dominate Christmas in Bethlehem

Latin patriarch celebrates new status at the UN, while local Christians lament that most of their families have left

By Dalia Nammari

November 23, 2012
11:27 pm

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Nov. 16 (photo AP/Majdi Mohammed)

For Abbas, UN statehood nod would be a much-needed counterweight in battle for Palestinian minds

PA president requires an international lifeline to challenge the soaring, post-war popularity of Gaza’s Hamas

By Dalia Nammari and Karin Laub

June 14, 2012
11:42 am

Andre Pshenichnikov (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Israeli wants to renounce citizenship and become Palestinian

After immigrating from Tajikistan and serving in the IDF for four and half years, Andre Pshenichnikov wants ‘to be part of the Palestinian resistance’

By Dalia Nammari