“Fire and Stones: A State of Being” is a visual testimony about the psychological state of a nation under occupation. Made in 2010 in the West Bank, moving beyond the cliché imagery of the “stone throwing Palestinian kid in kefaya” engraved in our collective memory, these photographs portray the emotional space of an oppressed Palestinian identity. As a photographer, I am not interested in defining the victims or the villains of the story. My aim is to explore the emotional state that Palestinians collectively endure day to day despite political divisions among themselves.