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Ex libris palaestina
Miocene Tectonic formation of the Dead Sea Rift
6000 BCE Domestication of the olive tree in the Eastern Mediterranean
303 Martyrdom of Al Khader the dragon slayer
1917 First family exile in living memory, a death march from Nablus to Urfa near the end of WWI
1927Jericho earthquake strikes with a magnitude of 6.3 destroying my great-grandfather’s house in the village of Rafidia
1948 Our catastrophe is named the Nakba; second family exile in living memory with the ethnic cleansing of Haifa
1967 Nakba continues as naksa
1969 Third family exile in living memory from Amman to Boulder, Colorado
1984 I’m born on the boundary between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, on the coldest day of the year
1992 I write and illustrate my first book (about wolves) to widespread critical acclaim
1993I watch the Oslo Accords being signed on TV and find out that I am a Palestinian
2006I visit geographical Palestine for the first time
2021I ask myself again, “Why is being Palestinian such an absurd experience?”
2023 Nakba continues as genocide