My allotment; my cats; good food, good wine and good company; a just peace in Palestine; d-locking to nuclear bases and sites of corporate evil; Sara Paretsky, Ahdaf Soueif and Carol Shields; plentiful sleep; shoes...
Emerald-eyed sleek black cats; non-Trotskyite Palestine solidarity supporting feminist writers with green fingers and gothy pasts.
Shakira (circa 2002) for fun, Samir and Wissam Jubran for beauty and the Sisters of Mercy for nostalgia...
Sex and the City for pleasure and depressing documentaries for the soul... televisions should be switched off as much as possible.
One or two out of the six thousand or so (between me and Himself) that will probably pull our house down... Amira Hass/Drinking the Sea at Gaza; Eduardo Galeano/Open Veins of Latin America; Robert Fisk/Pity the Nation; Carol Shields/Unless; trashy moving-to-the-Med memoirs for when my brain aches.
Leila Khaled; my mum; Robert Fisk; Attila the Stockbroker; Miss Phillips; Judy Bari; millions of women in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Arab towns in Israel, Nicaragua and parts of Mexico who exist under military, political or cultural occupation and all the threats that brings...