The day to day rhythm of Karim’s life is set by the curfews that are sporadic in occurrence and will last for an unannounced amount of time. Now, however, he can’t go to school at all because the building has been destroyed by the Israeli occupiers. He plays soccer, video games, tussles with his brother and goes to school when the curfews are lifted. Karim Aboudi is growing up in Ramallah with an older brother and two younger sisters. We give Palestine no visibility.Ī Little Piece of Ground remained on my radar and when I recently spotted it in my library I decided to finally read it. In the US, we’ll talk about the Israel/Palestine conflict from an Israeli perspective, but not Palestinian, as if to find any faults in Israeli’s actions is to question it’s right to exist. I met Palestinians who were traveling with no passport (they don’t have a country) and consequently, limited economic opportunity. It’s only fitting that I found out about this book on that trip because it’s when I really began to put a face on Palestine, to understand that real people were affected by the occupation. I first heard about A Little Piece of Ground back in 2006 at a dinner in Jeddah.
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