Poems of a Palestinian Boyhood

by John Doe and Reja-E Busailah

In his ninetieth year, Reja-e Busailah looks back on growing up in a small Palestinian town in the 1930s until the turbulent upheaval of 1948, when over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by the Israelis, and the author was forced to join the Death March from Lydda. Although blind since infancy, Busailah recalls with stunning detail a boyhood shaped by disability, education, family and friends, British soldiers and Zionist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1916012132
• ISBN13: 9781916012134
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"