Ma' Al Sama'

Ma' Al Sama' (Dar al Shorouk, Amman, Jordan, 2008), by Palestinian author Yahya Yakhlif, follows the lives of Palestinian exiles after their expulsion from their homeland. In an emotional account taking in the troubled years between the 1948 Nakba and the defeat of 1967, including the Palestinian revolt emerging from the refugee camps during the 1960s, the story examines the ordeal of the exiles, from the initial depression of exile to the pursuit to recover dignity and regain strength after a defeat that destroyed their world.