ow much treasure
will you find?

she now faces as the head of the
PICCR, a kind of public watch-
dog that's high on prestige and
short on teeth. Ms. Ashrawi per-
ceives the commission not as a
human-rights organization in the
mold of Amnesty International
but as more of an all-purpose tool
to review proposed legislation,
help forge national institutions,
and shepherd the creation of "a
civil society and a democracy."
At times, she seems to tiptoe
between the raindrops in de-

"'Do you want to
fight the guard of
the vineyard, or do
you want to get the
grapes?' We want to
get the grapes."

— Hanan Ashrawi,
on the Palestinian Independent
Commission for Citizens' Rights.

scribing the commission's deli-
cate relationship with the PA.
"We were not set up to point fin-
gers or oppose the Authority," she
explains.
Instead, the commission's in-
fluence stems from the regime's
awareness that "somebody is
looking over its shoulder, some-
body is holding it accountable."
To clarify her strategy, she cites
the Arabic saying: `"Do you want
to fight the guard of the vineyard,
or do you want to get the grapes?
We want to get the grapes."
Thus while admitting, "We go
public when matters become
really drastic," for the most part
the commission believes in work-
ing quietly, if insistently, behind
the scenes and avoiding con-
frontations. "We have formulated
regulations on detention and
arrest, on interrogation, on how
to subpoena," she relates. "These
regulations have been adopted by
the Authority. The problem is to
make sure they are applied."
It is not an easy task. "Over-
whelming" is how she describes
the strain of seeing that regula-
tions are carried out while en-
suring that the commission is not
perceived as a force of political op-
position. "It's much easier to deal
with an enemy than to deal with
your own internal struggle
against injustice," she observes
candidly. And, admitting the
need to recharge her batteries,
she has decided not to stand for
the post of commissioner again
when the PICCR's elections are
held in June. What will she do
instead?
"You know what I really want
to do?" Ms. Ashrawi offers, light-
ing a fresh cigarette and moving
to the edge of her chair as she re-
veals a surprising side of the
woman so strongly identified
with politics. "I want to take three

months off to finish my novel, The
Woman Who Does Not Dream,"
which she describes as a mixture
of narrative, fact, and fantasy
with mystical and mythical ele-
ments plus components of a
Greek tragedy. "Ah, I love to
write," she confides in a tone of
wistfulness edged with excite-
ment. "That's how I feel most ful-
filled."
Yet even here, a hint of her
original, perhaps natural, role of
national spokeswoman peeks
though. Explaining that for all its
literary devices, the novel is set
in reality, "in a Palestinian vil-
lage, in a Palestinian country,"
she relates her desire to convey
the deeper, more complex aspects
of the Palestinian experience to
a broad audience.
"You really must approach
people in a language that creates
terms of reference and common-
ality," she says, slipping back into
her professorial persona. "Each
experience is unique, but there is
a commonality that must be
shared. That's why I wanted to
write this novel. That's why I'm
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