Author and illustrator Najwa Kawar Farah, who turned 86 years old in 2009, relates emotions of love, grief and longing in this moving collection of poetry. Najwa's life experience in Palestine and the Middle East provided her with the political, historical, and socio-cultural milieu from which she draws and develops her characters.
Most of her protagonists are Palestinians, mainly 'ordinary' people, especially refugees uprooted from their homes and homeland, who seek answers to their individual and collective historical predicament. Many of these protagonists are resilient women, who in addition to their political oppression encounter social discrimination. Her stories and novels come in eleven collections in Arabic. A number of them have been translated into English, Hebrew, Danish and Finnish.