{"product_id":"9781408773185-our-arab","title":"Our Arab","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Longing, Belonging and Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poignant essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the many Palestinian Americans in the diaspora, few have direct experiences or memories of their ancestral land, if any at all. So how does one maintain a connection to a home so volatile, ever-shrinking, and nearly unattainable? And how does a child of diaspora raise a child of diaspora, at a time when Palestinians throughout the world-particularly those living in their homeland-are vulnerable to massive violence?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e, the essays in \u003ci\u003eOur Arab\u003c\/i\u003e coalesce around the fundamental characteristic of living in diaspora, the state of longing: longing to be elsewhere, longing to return home, and longing to know what home is. This is a book that holds many truths at once about society, identity, and family, filled with flashes of radical compassion and anger to form an incredibly complex portrait of what it means to be Palestinian today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully written and bracingly honest, Our Arab 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56585140076918,"sku":"9781408773185","price":20.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41024002_ace4a560-199d-40ab-919e-964e92700e8c.jpg?v=1777006303","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408773185-our-arab","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}