{"id":19580,"date":"2011-03-14T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=19580"},"modified":"2011-03-14T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:57:46","slug":"laila-el-haddad-gaza-mom-palestine-politics-parenting-and-everything-in-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/03\/14\/laila-el-haddad-gaza-mom-palestine-politics-parenting-and-everything-in-between\/","title":{"rendered":"Laila El-Haddad, &#8220;Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031411_v3\/2011_03_14_haddad.mp3\">Listen to the entire program <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRrjrzCaNEseocbHPkS6_lgeLUm0X8DKWkCELw60L_DucVIblcO\" alt=\"gaza mom\" \/>In the fall of 2004 Laila El-Haddad, living in Boston, was sent to Palestine on a reporting assignment. Her son Yousef, then only 9 months old, was still nursing and would make the trip with her. Haddad&#8217;s husband would remain in the United States. A cousin of Haddad&#8217;s suggested she start a blog to share details of her son&#8217;s development, and of the trip, with her husband. That first blog, titled &#8220;Raising Yousef&#8221;, evolved into her current multi-topic blog &#8220;Gaza Mom: Motherhood. Politics. Palestine. And everything in between.&#8221; Haddad is a Gaza Palestinian, born in Kuwait. She grew up living in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, with frequent family trips back to Gaza. As a journalist for Al Jazeera she has returned to Palestine often, reporting on politics and the daily trials and tribulations endured by residents of the occupied Palestinian territories. Haddad provides a narrative of the reality on the ground from the perspective of a Harvard graduate, an Arab woman, the wife of a Palestinian refugee barred from returning home, and a mother to two children whose heritage is under assault. In late 2010 the first 5 years of her blog writings were released as a book, &#8220;Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between.&#8221;  In this seamless format readers will experience her astute political analysis and straight-from-heart observations on motherhood in a whole new way. <\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nGUEST: Laila El-Haddad, A Palestinian freelance journalist currently based in Maryland, author of the blog Gaza Mom, and author of the new book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2004 Laila El-Haddad, living in Boston, was sent to Palestine on a reporting assignment. Her son Yousef, then only 9 months old, was still nursing and would make the trip with her. Haddad&#8217;s husband would remain in the United States. A cousin of Haddad&#8217;s suggested she start a blog to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}