Elhillo, Safia

Summary: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ELH

Kullab, Samya

Summary: "A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 971 KUL

Toubassy, Samir

Summary: The exodus of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war—the Nakba, or catastrophe—is the starting point for this memoir by Samir Toubassy. But it is his trek to excel, while wrestling with his roots and identity as a Palestinian in the shadow of his family’s expulsion that is at the heart of his story. Global business leader, philanthropist, and educator, Samir Toubassy left Jaffa with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUBASSY, SAMIR TOU