In 1976, Nahlah Ayed's family gave up their comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring, but it was from this uncomfortable situation that Ayed first observed the people whose heritage she shared. The family returned to Canada when she was thirteen, and Ayed ignored the Middle East for many years. But the First Gulf War and the events of 9/11 reignited her interest. Soon she was reporting from the region full-time, trying to make sense of the wars and upheavals that have affected its people and sent so many of them seeking a better life elsewhere.
- ISBN10 0670069094
- ISBN13 9780670069095
- Publish Date 10 April 2012
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country CA
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 356
- Language English