Ahmad Abu Husein from Baqa el Gharbiyeh, the Triangle located inside the Green Line. He is from the same place as the protagonist in The Almond Tree and he was the inspiration for me naming my protagonist Ichmad. We studied Middle Eastern studies together at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He still lives in his village […]
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The ALMOND TREE chosen as one of the Eslite Monthly Picks
THE ALMOND TREE has just been chosen as one of the Eslite Monthly Picks by Eslite Books, the biggest and most influential bookstore chain in Taiwan. It’s a list that’s notoriously hard to crack, and usually there’s only one spot for translated fiction every month. Their taste can range from the super literary (Peter Nadas’ […]