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Stories of Palestine

From poetry to family sagas, these compelling narratives provide a deep and nuanced understanding of life under occupation and the enduring hope for home and belonging.

Pickering Public Library

10 items

  • As she searches for a better life, a young Palestinian refugee becomes radicalized.
    Book, 2020New York : Atria Books, 2020. — FIC Abulh
  • A deeply human poetry collection documenting the poet’s life under siege in Gaza.
    eBook, 2022City Lights Publishers, 2022
  • Follow three generations of Palestinian-American women who must balance their own desires with tragedy.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Harper, 2019. — FIC Rum
  • This family story explores how we hold onto the people and places we call home.
    Book, 2021Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — FIC Alyan
  • Afaf, a principal and daughter of Palestinian immigrants, meets a school shooter who terrorizes her school.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. — FIC Musta
  • Follow several Palestinian characters with vastly different lives as they navigate being immigrants in America.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : HarperVia, 2024. — FIC Darra
  • A stage actress returns to Palestine to visit her sister and finds that her relationship with her home has changed drastically.
    Book, 2023New York : Grove Press, 2023. — FIC Hamma
  • A woman attempts to uncover information about the terrible assault and murder of a Palestinian girl that happened several years ago.
    Book, 2020New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020. — FIC Shibl
  • Poetry about the poet’s witty and wise grandmother named Rifqa.
    Book, 2021Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2021. — 811.6 ElKur
  • Salma reads her daughter’s future on the day of her wedding and sees an unsettled life. Though she keeps these predictions secret, they begin to come true as the family is uprooted from their home.
    Book, 2017Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — FIC Alyan