About the Book: Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging and Hope
Of 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?
A highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed You Exist Too Much,
the essays in Our Arab coalesce around the fundamental characteristic of living
in diaspora, the state