Ghada Karmi

In Search of Fatima reflects the author's personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Karmi was born in Jerusalem, but her family was forced out in 1948, following the Nakba, when Palestinians were dispossessed of their lands at the hands of the Israeli state. In...

'An intelligent, sensitive writer' - Financial Times Palestine has been under attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as masking the expansion of Israel's apartheid regime. Seventy-five years ago, Ghada Karmi and her family in Jerusalem were among the hundreds of...