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CHAPTER ONE: THE GYPSY Umm Marwan* yearns for home. She yearns for Palestine, for a country she’s never seen. That’s probably why it looms over her so heavily. She was born a refugee in a Jordanian camp before her family moved to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates – it’s a small…
I’m the son of a Palestinian exile. But my time as a translator in Greece taught me something new about being displaced. I’m a hyphenated Canadian. Palestinian-Canadian, to be precise. Like countless Palestinians scattered worldwide, I’ve never been to my native land. Many Middle Easterners belong to the world’s ever-growing refugee population, and Palestinians are…
A trespasser at Qasir Nasir Khan’s mosque threatened worshippers with Islamophobic slurs and reckless driving. Three days later, another mosque was targeted. Read more…