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Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online

After a university education, Jacob.earlier Ya.acov, and initially Ya .coub.Nammar had a successful life in the U.S., got married, and had children.
H is mother joined him in 1968 and enjoyed seeing her children and their progeny. She died in 1973 in Toronto, while visiting his brother Suleiman
and his family who had emigrated there from Jordan. The Israeli authorities did not permit her burial in Jerusalem as she had wished. She was
survived by her eight children, t wenty-five grandchildren, and thirty great-grandchildren as well as her five bro thers and three sisters (p. 143).
Intimately personal as this memoir is, it is compelling reading as a description of the quality of family life of Palestinians under Israeli rule and of
the effects on them of the Nakba. In a compassionately human way, i t helps readers understand the reality of the Palestinian tragedy. Its small det
ails bring home the immensity of the injustices Palestinians have suffered, and are still suffering. Yet the author keeps hoping for a rebirth of
Palestine wher e peace and justice will rule, based on mutual understanding and respect among a ll people living in it.

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