Diaspora

Saturday 20 October 2007

This is what the Palestinian Diaspora means: “Mounif is calling me in America from Qatar about Fahim’s martyrdom in Beirut and burial in Kuwait, and about the necessity of informing Sitti Umm ‘Ata in Deir Ghassanah and his maternal grandmother in Nablus and my mother in Jordan. Radwa and I are confirming our tickets to return to Cairo via Rome.” — Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, p.108