From the Book - 1st American ed.
Introduction: Neither homeland nor exile are words / Penny Johnson
Exile/home: my country: distant as my heart from me : Memories of an un-Palestinian story, in a can of tuna / Susan Abulhawa ; Song from Haifa / Beshara Doumani ; Portable absence: my camp re-membered / Sharif S. Elmusa ; Pushing at the door: my father's political education, and mine / Lila Abu-Lughod ; Of place, time and language / Adania Shibli
Home/exile: my country: close to me as my prison : Obsession / Suad Amiry ; Diary of an internal exile: three entries / Raja Shehadeh ; The driver Mahmoud / Mourid Barghouti ; Home and exile in East Jerusalem / Rema Hammami ; The right to wait: exile, home and return / Rana Barakat
At home in what world?: a place to live and curse in : Palestine that never was: five poems and an introduction / Fady Joudah ; Becoming Palestinian / Jean Said Makdisi ; Onions and diamonds / Mischa Hiller ; Exiled from revolution / Karma Nabulsi.
