SIS Summer Abroad 2010: Israel & Palestine

At the end of our trip, the crew reassembled and traveled to Jordan. It was a wonderful and relaxing way to wind down after the two month s...

Yesterday, Jenna and I went to the American Consulate in Jerusalem to give a briefing of our report on home demolitions to State Department ...

As our time here comes to a close, one cannot help but reflect on the past couple of months. We have learned a lot, too much to list. Amon...

I have been trying to figure out how to say thank you to my host family for such an amazing summer. I have really felt like a part of the f...

Over the weekend, we took our last trip together as a group while we are in Palestine/Israel. We went up north to see an old crusader citad...

Last weekend, I went back to Ramallah for the second time. I stayed with the same people, who are family of one of the other students, Nijim...

For our last free weekend during the program, I opted to visit Ramallah again and while I was there, we visited Yasser Arafat's tomb. T...