The Tears of Olive Trees: An Autobiographic Story Featuring Poems From Mahmoud Darwish
By AbdulKarim Al Makadma
The Tears of Olive Trees is a multi-generational non-fiction memoir of a Palestinian family’s heroic struggle against poverty, violence and oppression.
In the 1948 Nakba, the Zionists stole the AlShaikh family’s home and lands and exiled them to a refugee camp in Gaza. Rather than to return evil for evil, this incredible, heroic family struggled in peace against all odds to give their children a better life.
The Tears of Olive Trees dares to tell the truth about what really happened to the Palestinian people through the experiences of a man who lived through the events of the past fifty years first as a refugee and later as a physician and humanitarian who immigrated to the West.
˃˃˃ Featuring Poems from Mahmoud Darwish
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MY HONEST REVIEW OF The Tears of Olive Trees
This is an
autobiography of the author detailing his life as a Palestinian refugee growing
up in the Al Shati refugee camp. When Israel expropriated his father’s land and
property, his father, along with all other Palestinian’s, were exiled to the
camp. Karim would be in the first generation to grow up entirely in Al Shati. I
was appalled to read of the persecution of this proud people. It’s unfathomable
how an entire nation could be extracted from their homelands, to never see it
again.
There were so
many heart rending parts that made me angry that this could happen to people
who never deserved it, children especially. I applaud Karim for overcoming
everything that was thrown at him, and becoming a person to admire for all the
accomplishments he has achieved in his lifetime. I believe it to be a testament
to his parents’ love of their children. That is what kept me reading, I was so
in awe of the love this family had not only for themselves, but for each other.
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**The above
opinions are 100% my own, whether I purchased the book or it was given to me to
review.
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