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Linguists Arik Sadan (in his Israeli Army days) and Sobhi Bahloul. Sadan is an authority on the Arabic language. Bahloul authored the Hebrew curriculum for Gaza's Palestinians.

A tale of two linguists and the conflict that separates them

Culture

Israeli linguist Arik Sadan is an authority on the Arabic language. Palestinian Sobhi Bahloul is Gaza’s best-known Hebrew teacher. They share a love for the other’s native tongue. But these two linguists have never met.

Ziyad Abul Hawa came home one day to find this note about "an Arab" — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie next to it.

He came home to find a note about ‘an Arab’ — him — living in his Tel Aviv apartment building. So he took a selfie.

Conflict
Palestinians look at the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Deir El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip July 14, 2014.

Gaza’s normally bustling streets turn eerily empty as residents flee bombings

Conflict & Justice
Palestinians in Gaza City gather around the remains of a car which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday.

Israel and Hamas seem to be moving toward all-out war

Conflict & Justice
Relatives of a Palestinian Hamas militant mourn during his funeral in the southern Gaza Strip on July 7, 2014. The Israeli military killed at least five Hamas militants in air strikes carried out in the Palestinians enclave.

Israel arrests right-wing soccer fans for the revenge murder of a Palestinian boy

Conflict & Justice
An Israeli woman holds a sign with images of three missing Israeli teenagers, at a rally in Rabin Square in the coastal city of Tel Aviv June 29, 2014. Israel on Thursday named two Hamas Islamists as leading suspects in the June 12 kidnappings of the thre

Three missing Israeli teens are found dead outside the Palestinian town of Hebron

Conflict & Justice

The bodies of three Israeli teens were found dead after an intensive two-week search by the Israeli military. Sheera Fenkel, BuzzFeed’s Middle East correspondent, was in Jerusalem as the news broke.

An Israeli woman holds a sign with images of three missing Israeli teenagers, at a rally in Rabin Square in the coastal city of Tel Aviv June 29, 2014. Israel on Thursday named two Hamas Islamists as leading suspects in the June 12 kidnappings of the thre

Three missing Israeli teens are found dead outside the Palestinian town of Hebron

Conflict & Justice

The bodies of three Israeli teens were found dead after an intensive two-week search by the Israeli military. Sheera Fenkel, BuzzFeed’s Middle East correspondent, was in Jerusalem as the news broke.

An Israeli and Palestinian couple hold hands. They've asked to remain anonymous.

This Israeli-Palestinian love story broke so many rules

Lifestyle & Belief

It’s a rare love story that breaks so many boundaries in the Middle East. An Israeli and a Palestinian fought physical barriers in traveling between Jerusalem and the West Bank. They fought the Israeli-Arab cultural barriers. And they fought the social barriers of being gay.

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