Across the street from her home in Ramallah, Madees Khoury runs Taybeh Brewing Company, a microbrewery that her father, Nadim, opened more than 30 years ago.

At the age of 39, she is the West Bank (and the Middle East’s) only female brewmaster, carrying forward his dream of making craft beer for his Palestinian Christian community in the Taybeh with the blessing of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Authority’s first president.

For the past two years, she has faced her hardest test — an intensifying Israeli occupation that has made every shipment of water, grain, and bottles to the community almost impossible.

Over the past four months in particular, Ramallah has faced increasing attacks from settlers.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in July two

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