“Two writers locked in the weight of the stories we choose to tell and the poems we choose to compose,” says award-winning playwright and poet Samah Sabawi of herself and her father. The stories of Cactus Pear for My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza emerge from the recollections of Sabawi’s father about life in their homeland, Palestine. Amid the tragedy and betrayal of international interventions and invasion, personal hardships are softened by humour, love, scholarly meditations and the poetry of the Quran.
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