Palestine | Palestine
Dec.03.2012
This collection spans geographies of war, homelessness, homemaking, longing, and hope as it travels through Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, American and other landscapes. Informed by depth of experience and a resilient humanism, these poems seek to transform landscapes of devastation to...
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Dec.27.2010
“The Red Tent” meets “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
In 1911, in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem under the backward Ottoman rule, a young woman sets out to challenge God.
The feisty Esther’s life-long struggle between her passions and her strict society’s religious dictates sends her to secretly...
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Aug.16.2009
When Omar Yussef travels to New York for a UN conference, he's eager to visit his youngest son, Ala, who lives in Bay Ridge, a Brooklyn neighborhood with a large Palestinian community. He arrives at Ala's apartment to find the door ajar and a headless body in one of the beds. He's initially...
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Mar.17.2009
- This morning they entered my room and half-smiling, informed me that I have been here for a year. Looking at them, not knowing what to say, I thought: “My God! What has happened to me? How has it come down to this? I am only twenty-four, and the woman I love has been killed, and I am not in...
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Feb.22.2009
In this gripping, in-the-trenches account of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, award-winning journalist Matt Rees takes us deep within Israeli and Palestinian societies to reveal the fractures at the core of both. While the world focuses almost exclusively on the violent clash between the two camps...
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Feb.22.2009
A member of the tiny but ancient Samaritan community has been murdered. The dead man controlled hundreds of millions of dollars of government money. If the World Bank cannot locate it within the next several days, all aid money to the Palestinians will be cut off. Visiting Nablus, Omar Yussef must...
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Feb.22.2009
In A Grave in Gaza, Omar Yussef and his boss,Magnus Wallender, travel to the Gaza Strip for a routine inspection of the UN schools in the Gaza refugee camps.Upon their arrival they learn that a teacher at one of their schools has been accused of spying and imprisoned. As they try to free the...
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Feb.22.2009
The murder of a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the arrest of George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis. Omar Yussef, a modest history teacher at a United Nations school in the West Bank, is impelled to investigate the murder to exonerate his...
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Jul.31.2008
In occupied Palestine
Two teenagers, a soldier and a suicide bomber, die.
Two families suffer.
Two communities remain divided.
What happens when two mothers refuse to be enemies?
Checkpoint, the new sociopolitical suspense novel by Lisa Saffron, is the story of ordinary people living in a conflict...
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