Replenishing the Sea of Galilee
Greenleaf Book Group Llc (Verlag)
978-1-62634-849-3 (ISBN)
When Rasheed falls in love with Natalia, a Jewish woman, he is able to apply what he learned from the priest to his budding relationship. However, it is the 1940s, and relations between Arabs and Jews are tense. Before long, those tensions come to a breaking point. Natalia mysteriously disappears, and Rasheed and Rasheeda are chased out of Palestine to Beirut, Lebanon.
Years pass, and though Rasheed continues to miss his beloved Natalia, he gets word of a surprising visitor—someone he didn’t even know existed. Rasheed’s life is upended, but in the most wonderful way.
As the Dinar family expands and enters the 1970s, their convictions are tested. In a dramatic final scene, the family reunites and proves once again that the thin line separating people because of their differences is powerless against the strength of family, love, and loyalty.
Wagih Abu-Rish is a Palestinian-American author and activist. He spent much of his career as a businessman, specializing in acquisitions. During a long and varied professional career, he was a foreign journalist in Beirut, Lebanon, and an ad executive on Madison Avenue in New York. He has been active in promoting progressive causes such as democratic practices and equal rights. Among those causes, he feels strongly about the need for the liberation of women in the Middle East, which he considers to be the most overlooked and abridged human right of all. It is his hope that this book highlights the themes he believes in. The most salient of such themes is the fact that most adherents are ignorant of the essence of their own religions. This applies equally to the adherents of Islam and to all other religions. His second and mostly implied theme is the difficulty people have in humanizing others, whether that means another gender, ethnicity, or nationality. Such humanization is the starting point for resolving difficulties and conflicts between competing individuals, parties, and countries. Mr. Abu-Rish earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Houston and the University of Oregon. This is his first novel.
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.08.2021 |
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Verlagsort | Austin |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen | |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
ISBN-10 | 1-62634-849-9 / 1626348499 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-62634-849-3 / 9781626348493 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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