Blogs in April 2022

The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land 12th April 2022

A divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of ‘holy’ air to credulous tourists. In a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales. Ahead of a school ‘Show and...

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As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow 28th March 2022

Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to...

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The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East 4th March 2022

One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East. Driven by...

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The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam 7th February 2022

A moving story about Palestine’s 1948 Exodus by the Arab world’s finest living novelist. First in a trilogy. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father...

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Fifty Miles Wide 19th January 2022

Ten years after breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels to write life at the roadsides of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. His journey weaves from fertile...

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