Memoir by Palestinian American activist Anan Ameri recounting her childhood in Jerusalem and Damascus during the 1950s and 1960s, her family's displacement from their west Jerusalem home during the 1948 Nakba, and her journey through political activism in the Arab world and the US. Traces connections between Palestinian dispossession, pan-Arab politics, and Palestinian American activism. A portrait of the Palestinian diaspora experience across the mid-twentieth century. Recommended for researchers in memoirs, Arab American studies, Palestinian American studies, and for general readers seeking a personal account of Palestinian displacement, diaspora life, and political activism across the mid-twentieth century.
