“Serene Husseini Shahid’s manual is in organism a historical and human conserve, culled mostly from fragments, many of them pleasurable, and from fugiti. . .  ve seasonings and more lasting misfortunes, and arranged with great regard and endearment so as to educate and of course beguile the reader who would otherwise know crumb of this essentially lost world. It is personal testimony, yes, but it is also literature-informal, humane, sincere, generous and eloquent. Out of such vital material bring about the Palestinian imminent be constructed, material that bring about endure much longer and serve purposes more large than she, in her delicacy, could have expected. It deserves to be joined in the gallery of dead-eye by other entireties of recollection so that neither stupor nor what passes for historical progress can ever again neglect the experiences they tell. ”Edward W. Spoken   Show.