Under the Nakba Tree: Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada (Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters)
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- Synopsis
- Mowafa Said Househ’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, when Mowafa visited his family’s homeland of Palestine at the beginning of the Second Intifada, he witnessed the effects of prolonged conflict and occupation. It was those observations and that experience that inspired him not only to tell his story but to realize many of the intergenerational and colonial traumas that he shares with the Indigenous people of Turtle Island. His moving memoir depicts the lives of those who live on occupied land and the struggles that define them.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 213 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781771992053
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781771992046, 9781771992039
- Publisher:
- Athabasca University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/30/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Mowafa Said Househ
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Reading Age:
- 15 and up
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.