The Parisian

Zawata,

He had fallen so easily into the compromise available in Paris, this type, by an embrace of otherness that at first he had admired in Faruq but which now appeared in his mind a skewed, performed version of what it was really like to be in a place but not of it, not to know it truly.

Then came victory in the Hejaz, and finally, the Ottoman Empire fell. Emir Faisal came to Paris for the Peace Conference, and what had been speculation, mere banter in high rooms off a boulevard, now these questions of nation or not were on the very threshold, and the blissful years of exile and indeterminacy were coming to an end.

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The truth was that very few of the men sitting in Sheikh Qassem that day had ever met a European Jew. The Yishuv settlements were mostly quite far from Jabal Nablus, and as a result their only conception of European Jewish men and women was based on those devout incumbents of Jerusalem who were not even Zionists, and on the Samaritan Nabulsis, who

Haj Taher’s grandfather began his business carting crates of Nabulsi soap on mules down through Gaza and into Cairo, returning after weeks with huge rope-bound bundles of fresh Egyptian cotton, which he sold in the Nablus khan, using the profits to buy more soap, travel to Cairo, and repeat the circuit. When Haj Taher’s father inherited the busines

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Jamal Basha

Aley,