'Allies': The Shatila Girls Who Used Basketball to Fight

On the outskirts of Beirut, there is a small Palestine, Shatila, an "open-air prison" of just over a square kilometer, which is the scene of a revolutionary project, a women's basketball team that 150 girls have already played for and that Spanish journalist Txell Feixas describes in her new book, Aliadas (Allies). Feixas, who was a correspondent in the Middle East for six years, returns to the Shatila refugee camp, where thousands of people are…