When home is no longer home [Book Review]
5 min readSep 1, 2022
Among the extensive literature on Palestine and Israel, Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home by Fida Jiryis provides a rare, and rarely accessible, perspective. The author was born to Palestinian parents from Fassouta, a Christian village in Upper Galilee, on the Israeli side of the Lebanese border. As a child, Jiryis lived through the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon war and then…
