Autobiography of celebrated Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan, recounting her life in Nablus under the British Mandate, the 1948 Nakba, and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank after 1967. Tuqan traces her journey from a sheltered childhood in a conservative family to her emergence as a poet of Palestinian national resistance, reflecting on the relationship between personal liberation, gender, and political struggle. Valuable for scholars of Palestinian women's autobiography, Palestinian poetry and national resistance, and for students studying how Palestinian writers navigate the intersection of personal liberation and political struggle.
