Oct 26, 2018
Max Weiss (1921-1996)
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Max Weiss (1921-1996)
On October 29, 2023, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician and neonatologist based at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city o
At the time of this writing, according to the most recent publicly available information, Dr. Abu Safiya is being held without charge in arbitrary detention, subjected to extended solitary confinement in a cold, damp, windowless cell, perhaps in the notorious Israeli torture camp Sde Teiman, perhaps elsewhere, enduring physical abuse and torture, with limited access to legal counsel, medical care, and family visitation. According to his lawyers, by the middle of 2025, Dr. Abu Safiya had lost nearly 100 pounds and had developed a number of medical conditions.
Meanwhile, his family is stuck in unbearable limbo. The weight of this loss—Dr. Abu Safiya’s physical body, the time with his family, friends, colleagues and patients, his availability to provide much-needed medical care, camaraderie, and guidance for the people of Gaza—should weigh upon the conscience of the world. There are many who have rallied to his defense, holding vigils and protests in cities and towns across Europe to North and South America as well as throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
The most deafening silence in all of this is on the part of the New York Times itself. For this reason—in addition to the hundreds of other examples of shoddy or deliberately misleading and biased reporting in its pages—I am joining the call from Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and other civil society groups for a global boycott of the New York Times. The paper must give expanded coverage to the bloody and inhuman treatment of Palestinians in Israeli detention as well as to the unended genocidal war that is still being unleashed upon the Palestinian people of Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as the Lebanese and Syrian people, who continue to be subjected to ethnic cleansing and ecocidal violence throughout the borderlands.
Dr. Abu Safiya deserves better than being reduced to a few advertising clicks for a news organization that does not care whether he lives or dies. The least we can do is stop giving our financial and symbolic support to them.
You pass from one cave into another, as if history is sleeping and you are inside its eyelid. I noticed colorful pieces of cloth tied around columns in one of the caves. Abdullah nodded at me encouragingly as I untied one, making a wish as I retied it: wishes are supposed to come true when another visitor comes to untie it. I glanced at Abdullah and saw that he was doing the same thing as me.
Dunya Mikhail, from her essay “The Spring” (translated by Max Weiss)
The temple looked small from the outside, but as soon as we entered, it opened up to infinity. We walked in barefoot like the others did, because “there should be no barrier between the foot of the entrant and the temple’s floor.” Our feet touched stones that were over four thousand years old; another world opened up right before our eyes, in the depths of the mountain, somewhere between myth and reality. The narrow pass, surrounded by three mountains, gradually opened wider, revealing all that it had, like the generosity of its people, but sometimes it also closed in on itself, like the Yazidi religion.
Dunya Mikhail, from her essay “The Spring” (translated by translated by Max Weiss)
Autobiographical Comics by Young Writers of Just Buffalo Writing Center This is a collection of comics made by young writers (ages 12-18) at the Just Buffalo Writing Center during a workshop on "Autobiographical Comic Writing" taught by Max Weiss.
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And last but not least we bring you our dearly beloved Max Weiss. Hailing from anywhere you call home, Wax Mice will be returning to our Burlinghome to serenade us with his sincere songs that will melt your wittle wax hearts. Need I say more? Let's party.
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