Karim Shamsi-Basha is a Food & Culture columnist with NJ Advance Media. He is an immigrant journalist from Damascus - Syria. In 2021, he won the Caldecott Honor for his children's book: Cat Man of Aleppo, a true humanity story of a man who saved cats during the Syrian civil war. Karim moved to New Jersey from Alabama and is loving his new home.
My worn-out leather bag was made by a Palestinian craftsman and sold in a Jerusalem market where people from all faiths get along.I carry it everywhere, my weathered leather bag that I purchased at a Jerusalem market 25 years ago. It’s beat up and shows decades of use but the story it tells is a story of humanity.
Everyone gets along at the market. I saw people from all faiths living and working side by side. Why can’t their governments do the same?I visited the Western Wall wearing my Arabic turban and a Jewish Yamaka together. I wanted to make a statement. I’m not sure that helped. After the 1973 war, when Israel took the Golan Heights from Syria, most conversations centered around that crime. I was 8 years old, mostly concerned with how much candy I could consume in a day, playing soccer with my friends on our street in the Abu Rommana neighborhood, and not doing my homework.
I saw the results of an Israeli bombing in the West Bank that leveled a building full of innocent civilians. I rarely watched the news, but on that night, I was glued to the television showing dismembered bodies of women and children. I struggled to understand the centuries-old conflict, and I continued to see innocent civilians on both sides killed. I witnessed rivers of blood running down the cobblestone streets, ugly and loud.Karim Shamsi-BashaMost Americans watch their media outlets portraying Palestinians, not just Hamas, as terrorists killing innocent Israelis.
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