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Rama Musa

Sep 11, 2014, 8:24 AM

She has better things to do than worry she'll be mistaken for a member of a fringe, pseudo-Judaic community

Apr 10, 2014, 1:01 AM

An Ungracious Welcome for an Unlikely Stranger

The following happened to me at a Purim party last month in Houston: “So, what does Rama mean?” “It has roots in Arabic.” “Let me guess. It means kill the Jews, right?” My mouth fell wide open and I briefly lost my ability...

Apr 30, 2013, 7:13 PM

A panel on Palestinian statehood at the Perugia Festival

This April, at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, I attended “The Israel-Palestine issue,” a panel discussion about the UN vote that granted Palestine non-member observer state status. An event about the Israel-Palestine conflict often attracts a crowd of...

Dec 15, 2012, 12:30 PM

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Israel’s African affair

Tamar Golan, Shimon Peres, and Félix Houphouët-Boigny, the first president of the Ivory Coast (photo credit: BGU Africa Centre)

Israel despises and deports Africans while its business tycoons mint billions off Africa’s back

About Me

Rama Musa is a Sierra Leone-born American writer. She has written about Ethiopian Jews, Israeli architecture in Africa, and a Swiss watch heist in Jerusalem. She spent a year in Jerusalem as a Fulbright scholar.