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In The Lemon Tree, Tolan tells the stories of Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, an Israeli, and Bashir Khairi, a Palestinian.Both individuals lived in the same house in al-Ramla, with the Khairi family fleeing their home during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the Eshkenazi family moving into their vacated house.
The Book of Disappearance (Arabic: سفر الأختيفاء) is a novel by Palestinian writer and journalist Ibtisam Azem. It follows the stories of Alaa Assaf, a Palestinian man living in Jaffa in Tel Aviv, and Ariel Levy, his Israeli neighbor and friend, who finds and reads Alaa's diary after all Palestinian Arabs spontaneously vanish from Israel.
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 .
A new book tells in moving detail the story of a Palestinian man searching for his son.
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.
Grab your coffee and knafeh and snuggle into these Palestinian books!View Entire Post ›
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).
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.