Reviving an Exile

About this book

Nasser left a refugee camp to practise surgery in Dubai, but Palestine and the humiliations of displacement remain inseparable from his inner life. While waiting at Istanbul Airport, he meets another Palestinian refugee before a terrorist attack turns reflection into emergency. Acting as a doctor, he aids an injured pregnant woman named Sarah and encounters her husband, David, in a meeting complicated by fear and identity. Mohamed Dawoud Qandah examines exile as a condition of body, memory, and spirit, and portrays homeland as an enduring idea rather than a place one can simply leave.