Open and Closed: Alex Odeh’s Murder Four Decades On

October 11, 1985 was set to be an ordinary Friday for Alex Odeh. But when he opened the door to his office that morning, he triggered a bomb that detonated into a fireball of shrapnel.

by William Lafi Youmans

We are all here remaining on the land, and we are all returning to it despite the closed doors and high walls around it.

– Alex Odeh, Whispers in Exile (1983)