Susan Abulhawa

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

— Susan Abulhawa

“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated…

— Susan Abulhawa

“I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the…

— Susan Abulhawa

Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I…

— Susan Abulhawa

“Baba was gone forever. My mother kept waiting for him until the day she died, just as she waited to return home,…

— Susan Abulhawa

“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”

— Susan Abulhawa

“When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found in the sky if you look long and…

— Susan Abulhawa

“And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.”

— Susan Abulhawa

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

— Susan Abulhawa

“Yousef had only been gone forty days, but he looked ten years older. His body had become slight, and seeing him like…

— Susan Abulhawa

“Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love’s source. There had been no coincidence.”

— Susan Abulhawa

“Though they lived with the indignities of dispossession and military occupation, Huda sang with an unassailable freedom that comes only to those…

— Susan Abulhawa

“Still, the refugee camp of Jenin remained as it had been, a one-square-mile patch of earth, excised from time and imprisoned in…

— Susan Abulhawa

“How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits…

— Susan Abulhawa

“He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune. It…

— Susan Abulhawa

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

— Susan Abulhawa

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

— Susan Abulhawa

“It is the kind of love you can know only if you have felt the intense hunger that makes your body eat…

— Susan Abulhawa

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we…

— Susan Abulhawa

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that…

— Susan Abulhawa

“At last everything was falling into place. Falling into love.”

— Susan Abulhawa

“Dr. Shammaa’s story was a dreadful one and her voice broke as she told it. “I had to take the babies and…

— Susan Abulhawa

“We were existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us fully.”

— Susan Abulhawa

“She bore an uncanny resemblance to my mother, but the same beauty bloomed differently in each of them. My mother's fairness was…

— Susan Abulhawa

“She loved beyond measure, When I was young I thought her cold. But in time I came to understand that she was…

— Susan Abulhawa