The Woman from Tantoura
The Woman from Tantoura Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. She had not left her village before, but she would never return. The massacre in Tantoura…
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The Woman from Tantoura
Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. She had not left her village before, but she would never return. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known.
Through her depth of experience and her indomitable spirit, we live her love of her land, her family, and her people, and we feel the repeated pain of loss and of Now an old woman, Ruqayya looks back on a long life in exile, one that has taken her to Syria, Lebanon, the Gulf, and given her children and grandchildren.