‘Explicitly citing lived experience and collective past as examples of credible material evidence ... this book asserts that the Nakba is best told by those with the bruises, not those with the batons.’ — Mohammed El-Kurd, author of Rifqa

Join author Yara Hawari in conversation with Tareq Baconi to celebrate the publication of The Stone House, a vivid, haunting tale of intergenerational trauma and survival under Israeli occupation.

In 1968, in the midst of violent political upheaval, Mahmoud, a young Palestinian boy living in the Galilee, embarks on a school trip to visit the West Bank for the first time. For Mahmoud, his mother and his grandmother, the journey sets off a flood of memories, tracing moments that bond three generations together.

Hawari harnesses the enduring power of memory in defiance of the constrictions on Palestinian life. Against a system bent on the erasure of their people, the family’s perseverance is unbroken in the struggle for their stone house.

Yara Hawari is a Palestinian writer and political commentator. She completed her PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, where her research focused on oral history and Indigenous Studies. She currently works as a senior analyst at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian think tank. The Stone House is her first book.

Tareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka. He is the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance, and his writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the Washington Post, among others. He is the book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.

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