Amy Kurzweil

Nov 29, 2024 | latimes.com | Amy Kurzweil

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of “Artificial: A Love Story.” Aziz Abu Sarah from Palestine and Maoz Inon from Israel are peace entrepreneurs and presidents of InterAct International. Poem by Taha Muhammad Ali is quoted with permission from “Hymns & Qualms: New & Selected Poems and Translations” by Peter Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017); translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin.

Nov 29, 2024 | yahoo.com | Amy Kurzweil

Maoz: In my dream that was you on the path to peace, wasn't it Aziz? You've been walking this road for a long time. Aziz: When my brother, Tayseer, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the first intifada, he was 19. I was 10. Aziz: For 8 years I wanted nothing but vengeance. As a Palestinian I had no citizenship. One day a siren went off in the cityTeacher: Today is the memorial for the Holocaust. Aziz: I realized as I allowed my anger to turn to hate I remained enslaved.

Nov 29, 2024 | flipboard.com | Amy Kurzweil

This is What Evil Looks Like“Why is nobody f……g stopping Israel…….Wtf,” asks my exasperated daughter? Its a question people around the world are asking, and have been asking for …

Sep 18, 2024 | ted.com | Amy Kurzweil

By Amy Kurzweil Get a daily email featuring the latest talk, plus a quick mix of trending content. By subscribing, you understand and agree that we will store, process and manage your personal information according to our Privacy Policy

Jun 4, 2024 | lithub.com | Amy Kurzweil

I want to write about sitting at my grandmother’s death bed, a small cot in a simple room, watching her chest rise and fall, listening to the surprisingly forceful snore of her body expiring. It was April. Bubbe had just turned 98. Or close enough—I never knew her real birthday. Facts like these were lost along with her entire family in the Warsaw Ghetto, in bombings and trains and camps that Bubbe, as a teenager, narrowly escaped, alone.