About The Book
Mustafa, a Palestinian foreign student at Duke University, attended a political rally in Durham, North Carolina in 1963. Three men viciously attacked and raped him on his way to the event. The trauma shattered his confidence and drove him away from his girlfriend. Since he had already been accepted to Stanford University, he decided to start a long cross-country walk there.
His journey brought him both joys and challenges. He suffered injuries, but also received hospitality and kindness from strangers. He made friends, but also encountered felons and racists. He fell in love with a woman who shared his passion for justice, but also met a Palestinian-American polygamist family who challenged his beliefs. He felt joy, anger, fear, sadness, and love as he explored the diverse landscapes and cultures of America. But he realized that the biggest challenge was within himself. Could he heal his wounded self-image and reconcile his bodily desires with his love for his partner.
Nad of Nadide'
A defiant rose in the thorny shadow of the Turkish junta. Available Online and at Bookstores
A story about love in a maze of social, religious, and political obstacles.
Circumstances and his mother made it impossible for Palestinian Fareed to stay attached to his lover, Lebanese Dania. She was an arrogant and a repeat physical and mental abuser of those less fortunate and economically vulnerable.
Within months of his painful separation, he got spurned and provoked by a new challenger, Nad (Nadide’) of Turkey. She was nothing less than the opposite of Dania, but with one serious character flaw. She reacted in a knee-jerk and self-righteous way to the least suspicion of betrayal. To top this, she was the daughter of a mean, right-wing and Islamist senior general, who was a member of the Turkish junta. He harbored tribal and ultra-nationalist views, including those pertaining to love and marriage.
Nad of Nadide’ is a novel written by Wagih Abu-Rish through a life-threatening maze of social, religious, and political obstacles.
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Replenishing the Sea of Galilee
A family saga across ethnicity, place, and religion.
Replenishing the Sea of Galilee
A family saga across ethnicity, place, and religion.
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A Boundless Tale of Love
Replenishing the Sea of Galilee is a sweeping story of love, loss and the power of loyalty in the face of conflicting ideologies and religious beliefs. The story begins in 1940s Palestine where twins Rasheed and Rasheeda Dinar work in their family inns. Educated by a Jesuit priest about the essence of his own Muslim religion, relative to love and sex, Rasheed follows closely the teachings of his mentor and includes Rasheeda, so that she learns those teachings as well.
When Rasheed falls in love with Natalia, a Jewish woman, he is able to apply what he learned from the priest to his budding relationship. However, it is the 1940s, and relations between Arabs and Jews are tense. Before long, those tensions come to a breaking point. Natalia mysteriously disappears, and Rasheed and Rasheeda are chased out of Palestine to Beirut, Lebanon.
Years pass, and though Rasheed continues to miss his beloved Natalia, he gets word of a surprising visitor-someone he didn’t even know existed. Rasheed’s life is upended, but in the most wonderful way.
As the Dinar family expands and enters the 1970s, their convictions are tested. In a dramatic final scene, the family reunites and proves once again that the thin line separating people because of their differences is powerless against the strength of family, love, and loyalty.
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