المحتويات / النص
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Contents
Synopsis 2
Outline 12
Prelude: Jenin, 2002 23
I.
Nakbe (the catastrophe)
1 The Harvest 26
2 Ari Perlstein 31
3 The No-Good Bedouin Girl 35
4 As They Left 43
5 "Ibni! Ibni!" 55
6 Yehya's Return 59
7 Amal Is Born 69
II.
el Naksa (war and occupation)
8 As Big as the Ocean and All its Fishes 72
9 June in the Kitchen Hole 78
10 Forty Days Later 92
III.
Zaman ya Zamaan (how time loops and twists)
Various Times
11 David and Me 106
12 A Secret, Like a Butterfly 112
13 Moshe's Beautiful Demon 116
14 Yousef, the Man 117
15 The Brothers Meet Again 123
16 Just Beyond the First Row of Trees 129
17 Yousef Leaves 138
18 Yousef, the Fighter 143
19 David's Gift 144
20 My Brother, David 150
21 Heroes 153
22 Tapered Endings 156
23 Leaving Jenin 168
24 The Orphanage 177
IV.
El Ghurba (state of being a stranger)
1970s
25 America 196
26 The Telephone Call 206
V.
Albi fi Beirut (my heart in Lebanon)
27 Majid 211
28 The Letter 224
29 "Yes" 229
30 Love 231
31 A Story of Forever 234
32 Philadelphia, Again 241
33 A Story of Forever, Forever Untold 247
34 Pity the Nation 251
35 Helpless 257
36 The Month of Flowers 260
37 Yousef, the Avenger 267
38 A Woman of Walls 269
39 Here, There, and Yon 274
VI.
Baladi (my country)
40 Dr. Ari Perlstein 282
41 Hold Me, Jenin 292
VII.
Niyaha o Bidaya (an end and a beginning)
42 For the Love of Daughters 308
43 Pieces of God. 314
44 Yousef, the Cost of Palestine 317
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Palestinian Arabs -- Fiction.
Jenin (West Bank : Refugee camp) -- Fiction.
Palestine -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Fiction.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Fiction.
Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1948- -- Fiction.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Fiction.
Historical fiction. gsafd.
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