Hisham Awartani
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33 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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A few times. Like, every time I'm back, I come once.
Yeah, it's a small school.
Some of them have been teaching for 20, 30 years. Some of them have taught my cousins who are now married and have PhDs and... about getting divorced.
You don't open a door until the car's parked.
The head of the school walks up.
The only time I ever got in trouble for something in school was I installed Counter-Strike on the PCs here. It's not that hard to install. You type in, like, install Counter-Strike 1.6. We used to hang out in the library, too, with the librarian.
I guess reconnecting with my childhood, seeing the things that are more familiar, it's like, wow, a lot has changed. I kind of drove that home. There are lots of things that are different in my life now, permanently. But, you know. What's the use in kicking yourself over things that have been lost?
My main priority at that point was just to call 911. So I tried to, like, open my phone and then, you know, when there's, like, liquid on your phone, it, like, messes up. So I got actually locked out of my phone because I couldn't put in the password right. But then I went, like, to the emergency thing. So I ended up calling 911. I didn't know if I was going to survive.
Didn't know if my friends were alive. I was like, this is how it ends. I mean, I was like, you know, it was never outside of the realm of possibility for me, for that to happen to me. But I always expected it to be like in the West Bank and never in Burlington.
I mean, I've always loved history, and archaeology, I feel like, is not a more objective take on history, but it's just another way of looking at things. You know, in history, you often get lost in the big picture of, like, you know, King X declares war and whatever, or, like, larger political systems, whereas in archaeology, it's just more personal.
It gives you a better idea of how people lived their lives.
I mean, even beforehand, I was quite a private person, so.
I don't know. I mean, I hope that just in the future, not that people will forget, but that, I don't know. I'll be able to grow out of it and do things on my own and be known by those things. I'll try to keep a low profile, but it's not that easy in a wheelchair.
Yeah, especially on Brown Campus.
It would be very infuriating. It would mean this institution that I'm part of is not only implicit in refusing to condemn what's happening to Palestinian people, but it's also saying it will never condemn. It's basically just throwing the whole nation under the bus.
I don't know, like, I kind of wish I could be there. Just like... You know, experience it with my family. Like, I don't want to feel like I'm abandoning my family. Maybe it's a bit of survivor's guilt.
I felt like the time is ticking and that, like, There could be a possibility that some form of annexation happens while I'm outside. And then because I'm outside, I lose my legal status to live in Palestine.
And then I got home and I, like, collapsed. Literally, like, the second day, I was, like, probably 36 hours just in bed, sleeping.
I think the past week there have been guests over every single day. And I've had to greet them every single day. So I've had a whole week of not lounging in bed.
You know, like, annexation, I feel like is, like, like, it's getting worse, but it's not, like, something that's, like, so jarring that's, like... What would be so jarring? Uh... Killing everyone here? Like, I don't know.
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