“Would you trust a therapist who’s silent on genocide in Palestine?”
“Society as a whole globally is sick. When you have 4,000 billionaires owning half the world and treating people’s lives with contempt, polluting the earth with contempt, that is not well.”
— Ramsey Hanhan, From interview by Alex Foley
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Palestine protest in DC, Nov. 4, 2023 (Photo by M.R. Ortiz)
In a quiet Saturday afternoon chat, Dr. Foley and I discuss mental and societal health, the right to dissent, Palestinian liberation, the role of literature, and shedding mental colonization. The interview elicits my lived experience as a Palestinian growing up under Israeli “occupation”, and later in the diaspora writing about Palestine in a colonial tongue.
