My Nakba
Hannah Sterenberg
Samir Toubassy
Olive Branch Press, 2019.
“On the morning of April 14, 1948, we became a family of refugees, and together as a family we fled to many places, but never back to Jaffa.”
—Excerpt from My Nakba, by Samir Toubassy
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