In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

This compelling memoir relates Ghada Karmi’s childhood in Jerusalem, her family’s flight from Palestine to Syria then England after the 1948 Nakba, and coming of age in Golders Green, a largely Jewish, North London suburb. In Search of Fatima portrays Karmi’s personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped the modern conflict in Palestine/Israel. [read more]