In My Mother's Footsteps - A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home

In My Mother's Footsteps is a moving and heart-rending journey of a daughter discovering her roots and recovering her mother's beloved past. It's also an intimate and tender account of daily life for Palestinians as never seen before. For fans of The Bookseller of Kabul and The Beekeeper of Aleppo.

About the author

Mona Hajjar Halaby is a Palestinian-American educator, writer and social historian. In order to preserve Palestinian culture and heritage, she has created "British Mandate Jerusalemites Photo Library" on FaceBook, and "The Palestine Ethnographic Society." She collaborated on an interactive documentary "Jerusalem We Are Here," which takes participants on a walking tour of a neighborhood in Jerusalem past and present, and presents a map that documents the houses in the neighborhood with their documents, photos, and stories. Hajjar-Halaby has written a parenting book, a book on her classroom practice and has a new book coming out in May entitled, "In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home."

Summary

In My Mother's Footsteps is a moving and heart-rending journey of a daughter discovering her roots and recovering her mother's beloved past. It's also an intimate and tender account of daily life for Palestinians as never seen before. For fans of The Bookseller of Kabul and The Beekeeper of Aleppo.

Foreword

In My Mother's Footsteps is a moving and heart-rending journey of a daughter discovering her roots and recovering her mother's beloved past. It's also an intimate and tender account of daily life for Palestinians as never seen before. For fans of The Bookseller of Kabul and The Beekeeper of Aleppo.

Product details

• Authors: Mona Hajjar Halaby, Mona Hajjar Halaby
• Publisher: Brealey, Nicholas
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.08.2021
• EAN: 9781909770645
• ISBN: 978-1-909770-64-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Ethnic Studies, Biography: general, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, military history, Memoirs, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Middle Eastern history, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict