Black Feet
Dark Hearts
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About the Book
1961
Suhail was an engineering student in Amman, Jordan, totally in love with Suhaila. His situation, being the son of a very rich family and she, being a Palestinian refugee with extremely limited resources, did not suit his mother’s aristocratic roots and snobbish attitude.
To impress his confused and slighted lover and prove himself, he traveled to join the Algerian freedom fighters in their struggle against the French occupiers. To Suhail’s surprise, his upbringing continued to influence others’ perception of him, including the Algerians’ consideration of the tasks for which he was fit.
Instead of fighting, The Algerians assigned him to implant himself amid the French settler society, to connect with the rapists among them. His investigation of the mass rape of Algerian women by the French settlers exposed what was beyond everyone’s imagination.
This is Suhail’s story of personal and revolutionary trials and challenges as he uncovered and revealed the story of the most widespread rapes that have taken place since the Middle Ages.
Yara's Anthem
The Life of Yara Shaheen—Palestinian Refugee, French Belle, American Lawyer Available from Amazon, Online and at Bookstores
About the Book
Amman, Jordan. 1963. Sixteen-year-old Yara has only ever known life in a Palestinian refugee camp, but when she receives an opportunity to work in Paris for the summer, the trajectory of her life shifts entirely. In the care of the sophisticated Allard family, Yara is introduced to city life and habits and experiences a sexual awakening with the family’s son.
The Allards help Yara secure a spot at Berea College in Kentucky, where she has further romantic adventures and meets Moens Thomasson, a half-Black student who has ambitions of becoming a Supreme Court justice. As Yara progresses through higher education, she meets influential friends, including Rachel and Jameela, whose families adopt Yara by affection. When Moens suddenly reappears in Yara’s life, she discovers he is a manipulative sexual predator who holds troubling racial views and resorts to life-threatening measures to reach his goals.
Enlisting the help of Rachel, Jameela, and family members, they set into action a lengthy battle, legal and otherwise, that could jeopardize their standing with the university and the authorities. Yet through all of this, the three friends prevail and end up forming tight bonds, even finding love in unexpected places.
About the Book
In 1963, Mustafa, a male Palestinian Duke University foreign student, attended a political rally in Durham, North Carolina. While walking to the event,three men viciously attacked him and then raped him. In the days after the attack, the trauma causes him to withdraw from his girlfriend and seek a fresh start. He began the long cross-country walk to Stanford University, where previously he had been accepted.
During his travel, Mustafa faced many joys and challenges as he met with injury, hospitality and kindness, friendship, felonies, racism, and, of course, love. He met farmers, international criminals, and, incredibly, a Palestinian-American Polygamist family. Through his adventures and misadventures, he experienced the full range of human emotion, but learned that the biggest challenge was within himself. Could he reconcile his bodily desires with his wounded self-image and become a true partner to the woman he loved?
Nad Of Nadide
A defiant rose in the thorny shadow of the Turkish junta. Available Online and at Bookstores
About the Book
A story of love, determination, and political intrigue: Nad of Nadide’ reveals that love, whether between two of the same ethnicity or between lovers who never expected to cross ethnic boundaries, is one worth fighting for, at the cost of defying all norms and challenges.
“When Palestinian Fareed met Turkish Nadide’, neither could imagine the course of events that their relationship would trigger. The daughter of a ruling Turkish general, Nadide’s affections are at the center of a tumultuous political landscape in the 1980s. With conflict rising between her suitor and her father, on one side, and her father’s political enemies, on the other, the two targeted her with opposite benefits, albeit each wanting her to abort her yearning to reach her goal, a goal possessed by a wish to follow her heart. Will love and determination win out over personal grudges and political interests?
Replenishing the Sea of Galilee
A family saga across ethnicity, place, and religion.
About the Book
In 1963, Mustafa, a male Palestinian Duke University foreign student, attended a political rally in Durham, North Carolina. While walking to the event,three men viciously attacked him and then raped him. In the days after the attack, the trauma causes him to withdraw from his girlfriend and seek a fresh start. He began the long cross-country walk to Stanford University, where previously he had been accepted.
During his travel, Mustafa faced many joys and challenges as he met with injury, hospitality and kindness, friendship, felonies, racism, and, of course, love. He met farmers, international criminals, and, incredibly, a Palestinian-American Polygamist family. Through his adventures and misadventures, he experienced the full range of human emotion, but learned that the biggest challenge was within himself. Could he reconcile his bodily desires with his wounded self-image and become a true partner to the woman he loved?