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TEXAS Book Festival

Carrying Home: Belonging, Longing, and the Palestinian Experience

What does it mean to carry home when you cannot return? Fady Joudah’s Exhibit G bears witness to the destruction of Gaza through poems, essays, and photographs and reaffirms love as the only defense against a totalizing, destructive force. Zaina Arafat’s poignant memoir Our Arab explores Palestinian life — at home and in exile — forming a complex portrait of identity and belonging under censorship, violence, and erasure. Together, Joudah and Arafat reveal how stories preserve home–even when it is out of reach.

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