One of the first Palestinian autobiographical accounts in English, documents Fawaz Turki's experience growing up as a refugee in Lebanon following the 1948 Nakba and his life in exile across Beirut, Europe, and the US. Turki writes with political urgency about Palestinian identity, displacement, and the humiliations of refugee existence, making the Palestinian experience accessible to Western readers at a time when Palestinian voices were largely absent from international discourse. An important early memoir for researchers studying Palestinian exile literature in English, refugee experience in Lebanese camps, and the literary representation of Palestinian displacement and dispossession in the 1950s and 1960s. New edition with an added epilogue, originally published in 1974.
