After I couldn’t spend my last vacation with my family in Palestine due to the war in Palestine and the Israeli occupation closing the Palestinian borders with Jordan for Palestinian citizens, I decided this year to visit them in the last days of Ramadan and spend Eid al-Fitr with them. Eid is the time of the year when Muslims all around the world celebrate after the end of the month of Ramadan with their relatives. But in Palestine, Eid always has some challenges, and this year there were extra challenges due to the ongoing war. In this post, I’m sharing my experience of visiting my family and how I spent Eid with them under the ongoing war in Palestine.

Petmety is a Chrome extension and mobile app where you can raise your virtual companion. Petmety is intended to be a virtual pet that users can nurture and care for. You can feed it, play with it, take care of it, teach it new tricks, and also arrange playdates with other users’ virtual pets in a virtual sanctuary.

Spine 2D, a powerful tool for creating captivating animations, offers immense potential for web-based projects. However, integrating Spine animations seamlessly into web applications isn’t always straightforward, as I discovered during my journey with Petmety, an exciting Chrome extension project aimed at bringing virtual pets to screens everywhere.

Amer Abu Hujla is a Palestinian farmer living in a village called Deir Istiya in the West Bank. One day, he and his family went to pick their olive trees in their land. To their surprise, they found a large group of settlers digging a pit and constructing a swimming pool, surrounded by many seats.