A trip to the Islamic State

Writer and journalist Tsur Shezaf traveled through no man’s land, where Syria and Iraq melded into one in the wake of the ruthless campaign of […]

Hummus, The true story

“Why are you rattling your brain so much over hummus?” scolded George Bahu, a craftsman welder and lives in Jaffa all his life. “It’s just […]

The Houthis and the Red Sea

ואדי דאד. ליד צנעא

Yemen is a Tribal State, Even when there was an ostensibly central government in Sana’a, people outside the cities were always armed. No man would […]

The Solid Time

“Death hits from every direction”: An account of the unbearable sights from the Kibutzim enveloping Gaza. We were welcomed to the Kibutzim  enveloping Gaza with […]

A walk in Jaffa

5 Clock Squarethe old CityThe harborJaffa slopeAjami and the hill of Aliyah Clock Square Jaffa is one of the oldest cities there is. At least […]

Travels With A King And A Knight

The Silk Road


And opposed to this sentence, as I shut the porthole against the Azeris, I could hear my father quoting Tom Stevens, his tutor at Oxford: “There is nothing that you can allow yourself not to know.” The maritime empire centered on the Mediterranean Sea.

Short Stories

“Have you ever heard of Shota Rustaveli?”
“I once went with my father to his grave at the Church of the Crucifixion.”
“By the northwestern pillar,” mused the prince. “What a story!”

Lectures

1/ Danger zones



The stories how a journalist works in places which are not welcoming and endanger the life of inhabitants and traveler because of hostile climates, regimes or warring groupsTravel in badlands – The Bamian valley the Panjshir in Afghanistan, The war in Georgia, Cyclone in Myanmar, the land of Hezbollah in Lebanon, The massacre in Rachak that started the Nato intervention in Kosovo

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The fish who fell from the sky

Exactly there, on the land side of the sea wall, as it was impossible to walk on the sea side, came the big wave and riding on its head was a giant Grouper that landed just in front of our feet.

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All material on shezaf.net, whether written, photographed, taped, filmed, drawn or otherwise are protected by copyright ©. You cannot use any material from the website for personal and commercial use, or any kind of visual, written or other communication without the explicit and written approval of Tsur Shezaf.