Because You Are Palestine

About this book

'Because You Are Palestine.. when the image becomes a homeland.' In a world where people learn silence as an act of survival, and where dreams are buried before birth for fear of the claws of ordeals, 'Ahmed' decides to be the exception that refuses to remain a shadow among shadows. He is the young man who carried his passion for truth and dignity like an ember that never dies, finding himself leaving the warmth of his poor home heading to the heart of the wound.. to Palestine. He was not going merely in search of work but was tracing a truth the world amputated from its context, carrying his camera like a sacred trust, performing ablution with honesty and standing in the face of the storm with a lens that trembles but never breaks. Between the ancient alleys of Nablus and the neighborhood of Jerusalem choked by bullets, the threads of destiny intertwine; he meets 'Yassin,' the young man carrying in his eyes the wisdom of poverty and the patience of mothers, and 'Nourhan,' who made of her brush a mirror for the soul and a light resisting darkness. Here, resistance no longer returns as a mere rifle but becomes a word written under the rubble, and an image smuggled through tunnels to tell the world.