In his ninetieth year, Reja-e Busailah looks back on
growing up in a small Palestinian town in the 1930s until the turbulent upheaval
of 1948, when over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by the
Israelis, and the author was forced to join the Death March from Lydda.
Although blind since infancy, Busailah recalls with stunning detail a boyhood
shaped by disability, education, family and friends, British soldiers and Zionist
settlers. Poems of a Palestinian Boyhood is an extraordinary
book: unapologetic, unflinching, raw and beautiful.