Memoir in Arabic by Hala Sakakini, daughter of the prominent Palestinian educator and intellectual Khalil Sakakini, recounting the family's life in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem and their displacement in 1948. Sakakini captures the emotional experience of witnessing the gradual disappearance of Palestinian communal life in Katamon, as neighbors left, homes were taken, and the world of her childhood dissolved during the final months of the British Mandate. Recommended for researchers and general readers seeking firsthand testimony from within one of Jerusalem's most prominent Palestinian intellectual families, providing a deeply personal account of the transformation of Katamon and the emotional dimensions of Palestinian displacement.
