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Scars and Medals — Mohanad Alsayed — March 30th

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Gripping the reader from the very beginning, Scars and Medals is the journey of Mohanad Alsayed. From coming of age during the First Intifada, moving to America, and the riveting search for a lost freedom fighter uncle. Including conversations with his grandmother who lived through the Nakba, this work shows the intergenerational connection to Palestine, surviving in the face of colonization and occupation. His story is a reminder to us all that Palestinians’ existence is resistance, and the most courageous act is to live.

Gripping the reader from the very beginning, Scars and Medals is the journey of Mohanad Alsayed. From coming of age during the First Intifada, moving to America, and the riveting search for a lost freedom fighter uncle. Including conversations with his grandmother who lived through the Nakba, this work shows the intergenerational connection to Palestine, surviving in the face of colonization and occupation. His story is a reminder to us all that Palestinians’ existence is resistance, and the most courageous act is to live.

Endorsements

In Scars and Medals Mohanad takes readers on an exciting, moving, and decades-long international search for a missing uncle. The memoir is intimate, insightful, and immediately engaging. It will appeal not just to people interested in the politics and history of Palestine, but to anyone who enjoys a good story.

—Katie Halper, journalist, host of The Katie Halper Show, co-host of Useful Idiots.

What a gift to have read this book, at this time, to help us articulate the necessity of strength, resilience, and resistance needed...

—Nora Barrows-Friedman, journalist, editor, radio broadcaster, at The Electronic Intifada.