What's the deal with the sparklyshoes in bookspoliticssparklyshoes url, you ask? Well, it all started with a theory about sequins and post-traumatic stress disorder, and my own purchase of some all-sparkly-all-the-time flats in Bethlehem in 2009 not long after that year's attacks on Gaza.
I promise to elaborate on my theory, and perhaps highlight the shoes in question in a later post, but suffice to say that my foray into the world of shoes opened new vistas, leading me to Hebron, the shoe mecca of the West Bank, and most recently to Rahala, in Ramallah, where Imad the shoe artist cobbles out some real shoe magic.
Never one to say no to supporting local industry, ahem, I went a few times to explore the shop before I took the plunge.
