This week on Crossing The Line, I'll speak to Suheir Hammad a noted spoken-word poet, activist and humanitarian. The author of three volumes of poetry, Hammad will speak about her recent trip to South Africa and the correlation between that country and Israel/Palestine. Then later in the podcast a commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal and The War's Toll, compiled and read by Scott Burgwin of The Stand Independent News Service, all of this straight ahead.

Today on Crossing The line we spend the program talking to Nadia Hijab senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Palestine Studies and the author of "CITIZENS APART: A PORTRAIT OF PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL." Also, a brief wrap on news from The West Bank and Gaza Strip, plus; By The Numbers, stay tuned.