{"product_id":"9781408773185","title":"Our Arab","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Precise, vulnerable and deeply thought-through . . . One is left with the sense that belonging is not some binary state, but rather an ongoing, ever-expansive act' \u003c\/b\u003eOmar El Akkad, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'With humour and affection, Zaina Arafat weaves the improbable details of her Palestinian family's splintered journey post-dispossession'\u003c\/b\u003e Kerry Howley, author of \u003ci\u003eBottoms Up and the Devil Laughs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFewer and fewer Palestinians living in the diaspora have direct experiences of their homeland. So how does one maintain a connection to a land so volatile, ever shrinking, and nearly unattainable? And how can a child of diaspora raise a child of diaspora, at a time when Palestinians throughout the world-particularly those living in their homeland-are more vulnerable than ever to censorship, violence, and erasure?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn essays that move from Nablus to the Appalachian Mountains and from Amman to Manhattan, Zaina Arafat explores how to exist in this state of longing: longing to be elsewhere, longing to return home, and longing to know what home is. Holding many truths at once-about society, identity and family-and flashing with radical compassion, fierce pride, bitter loss and righteous anger, \u003ci\u003eOur Arab \u003c\/i\u003eis a call to action, a call to love, and an incredibly complex portrait of what it means to be Palestinian today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully written and bracingly honest, \u003ci\u003eOur Arab\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on displacement, memory, and the fragile, enduring work of making a life' \u003c\/b\u003eHala Alyan, author of \u003ci\u003eI'll Tell You When I'm Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dialogue Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57656349065589,"sku":"9781408773185","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781408773185.jpg?v=1792070421","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781408773185","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}