Contributed by Rebecca Chace / It’s 5:40 AM in New York and 12:40 PM in Palestine on August 10, 2024. I run back and forth inside my dark Brooklyn apartment, barefoot in a T-shirt and underpants. The workshop I’m leading for teachers in the West Bank begins in twenty minutes and my internet is down. Unplug the router; count to ten; plug it back in. I’m the one who’s supposed to have good internet. I have hot water, air conditioning, access to health care, and a well-stocked bodega on the corner. I lead workshops for the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College, which has partnered with Al Quds University for sixteen years. When Ibrahim, the soft-spoken director of the program for first-year students, reached out to schedule their annual faculty training sessions, we assumed he meant the workshops would take place on Zoom, not in-person.
