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The story revolves around the protagonist, Abu Al-Abd, who is a Palestinian refugee living in a refugee camp. As was the case with most refugees, Abu Al-Abd is unable to secure a job. Him and the other residents of the camp wait every month for donations from international associations.
Three Palestinian men of different generations seeking work arrange with a clerk in Basra to be smuggled to Kuwait by a driver. The men are treated gruffly and are humiliated by the process. They decide instead to arrange for travel with a lorry driver, a Palestinian man whom the reader later learns was surgically castrated in the 1948 war .
The book has been described as providing a vital perspective on Palestinian attempts to achieve independence and statehood. [1]In a review of Khalidi's The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, for Middle East Policy, Philip Wilcox praised the book calling it "Khalidi's brilliant inquiry into why Palestinians have failed to win a state of their own."
A new book tells in moving detail the story of a Palestinian man searching for his son.
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. Pluto Press. ISBN 978-1-786-80288-0. Of this book, Noam Chomsky wrote: "In the finest tradition of people's history, these sensitive, painful and evocative pieces provide a human face to the painful saga of Palestinian torment and the remarkable courage and resilience of the victims". [7] — (2019).
It deals with the Israel-Palestine conflict and follows two narratives which intersect, showing the complex history of the conflict in the lives of the individuals and society as a whole. The book was Booklist ’s Editor’s Choice for best adult non-fiction book in 2006, and won a Christopher Award in 2007.
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The book opens with the description of an Amal sniper attack on a young boy. Cutting wrote; "I was appalled by the brutality of Amal." [1] By mid-January 1987, the camp starving, some feared a repeat of the 1976 Tel al-Zaatar massacre - when an east Beirut Palestinian refugee camp had been surrounded by the Phalangists - aided by the Syrians.