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By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. Tuesday was the last day of Ramadan fasting. At sunset, around the world, believers began calling or sending ‘Eid Mubarak’...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com Spring has been sprung for about a week. Sharp, pointy green shoots reaching for light appear through earth cracks and promise...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. This year, this time of year, I am reminded of times when I didn’t feel as vulnerable as I do today. Spring has sprung, Ramadan...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com In 2005, during a conference in Camden, Maine, a close friend of mine asked Israeli intelligence analyst Yossi Alpher why Israel...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. Dark. Slightly after 5. Still air, warm. As I awaken I hear, above the murmur of heat surging through radiators and random...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com As a child of the 60s I remember being drawn to the photograph capturing the horror of the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức, a...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com ‘Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as people - not by those who are...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. On February 16, 1984, 40 years ago this past week, Palestinian-American scholar and political activist Edward Said published an...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com Several weeks ago, after it became clear that Israel’s ground offensive against Palestinians in Gaza would be escalating and...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com When, in November 2023, and again in January 2024, more than 1,000 Black Christian faith leaders took out full-page ads in the...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com I remember the time in 1984, following the Israeli-Lebanese War, when Columbia Professor Edward Said published “Permission to...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. It never gets any easier.Witness that on Wednesday, Jan. 17, as a malevolent act of cultural genocide, Israel’s military...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Approximately 1 in every 100 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since Oct. 7. The total exceeds 24,000. No one knows how many more...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I have to admit I struggled with this column for days; conflicting thoughts percolated for days, some ideas discarded, others added....

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. In 2014, I wrote “In Palestine today oppression and occupation continue. Jerusalem’s streets are alight with rebellion and resistance...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. In 1997, Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, said, “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography that he wanted to build a hall in Philadelphia “…the design in building not being to...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the Orient could not do was to represent itself,” Edward...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. ‘Mr. Azzi, I will personally pay for a one way ticket to the Muslim controlled country of your choice. Any one of them. Wanna go?...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. On October 7, Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel that left over one thousand dead, thousands injured, and hundreds captured...