Her First Palestinian
Her First Palestinian
Marilyn Stanley
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Shelley Gibbs
, Marie Raynard
, Laurie Burns
, Ksrlene Kuhn
, Jude Castillo
, Andrea Pole
, Linda Dessau
, Sebastian Schulman
, Teree Hokanson
, Chris Carvalho
, Jilanna Eagles
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mary Therrien
, Noelle Walsh
, Monica Geerts
, Remi Gunn
, Paris Semansky
, Richard Scarsbrook
, Dani Kat
, Susan Baues
, Barry Kazimer
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sarah Schwartz
, Sandra Perry
, Janet Baron
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Megan Bishop
, Crystal Inwood
, Maureen Brownlee
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, KERRILYNN SWEENEY
, Deb Philippon
, P. Thompson
, Joe Mitchell
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Melissa Poremba
, Thelma Ball
, Alice Meems
, Alex Platt
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Wanda Brine
, Melissa Kohlman
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Natasa Ilic
, Samantha Fitzpatrick
, Margaret McKay
, Alex Henderson
, Kim Cappellina
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Rachel Edmonds
, Rhona Brinkman
, Lynn Andrews
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Anne Range
, Filomena Falocco
, Sonia Adams
, Christine Lion
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Marin Beck
, Ken Gilmour
, Dawn Clayden
, Heather O'Connor
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Heather Belliveau
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Ellen Clarke
, Colleen McArthur
, Huguette Lemieux
, Benita Hartwell
, Margaret Jones
, Elaine Baptie
, Randi Ann Doll
, Janice Cournoyer
, Robert Hykawy
, Rhonda Struthers
, Lynn Bechtel
, C. Ray
, Denise Duvall
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Penelope Penner
, Deanna Radford
, Joann Horgan
, BJ Underwood
, Alissa Bender
, Debbie Rodgers
, Jasmeet Gill
, Christopher Rossignol
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Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.
Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.
