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The Right to Return
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For
some, the adage “home is where the heart is” is a hackneyed platitude; for
others, it’s a wrenching expression of an almost filial bond. In Milwaukee
native SandyTolan’s 2006 nonfiction book, The
Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the
Heart of the Middle East, a Palestinian returning to his ancestral home in
Ramla uses such visceral terms to describe his connection to the land from
which he was expelled 20 years earlier.
“We
were exiled, but we left our souls, our hopes and our childhood in
Tolan’s
book appeared at a time when media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict still
fell short of fairly conveying the Palestinian side. “The media reinforces the
uber-narrative,” says Tolan, allowing for a few salient exceptions. “It’s
breathtaking how little the suffering of the Palestinians is reflected. We know
the Holocaust, but we don’t see that the ‘Nakba’ is as much of a reality to the
Palestinians.”
The
term “Nakba” means “catastrophe” and refers to the thousands of Palestinians
who fled following
Tolan
comes to the Islamic Center of Milwaukee,
Also
this week, award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester comes to Milwaukee to talk about his new book, The Man Who Loved China. It concerns the
eccentric British biochemist Joseph Needham, who is widely attributed as having
changed Western perceptions of
Years
before
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