{"product_id":"our-arab-on-longing-belonging-and-hope","title":"Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER ONLY. PLEASE PLACE PREORDERS AS SEPARATE ORDERS FROM ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE FULFILLED IMMEDIATELY. ITEMS ORDERED WITH PREORDER BOOKS WILL BE HELD UNTIL THE PREORDER IS AVAILABLE FOR FULFILLMENT. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAVAILABLE OCTOBER 20, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy: Zaina Arafat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFewer and fewer Palestinians living in the diaspora today have direct experiences of their homeland. How can they maintain a connection to a land so volatile, ever shrinking, and nearly unattainable? And how can a child of diaspora raise a child of diaspora, at a time when Palestinians throughout the world—particularly those living in their homeland—are more vulnerable than ever to censorship, violence, and erasure?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuminous, joyous, and evocative, \u003ci\u003eOur Arab: On Longing, Belonging,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Hope\u003c\/i\u003e is Zaina Arafat's highly anticipated follow-up to her award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eYou Exist Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e. In essays that move from Nablus to the Appalachian Mountains and from Amman to Manhattan, Arafat reveals “in a singularly compelling voice” (Leslie Jamison) that to live in diaspora is to exist in a state of longing: longing to be elsewhere, longing to return home, and longing to know what home is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA call to action and a call to love, \u003ci\u003eOur Arab\u003c\/i\u003e holds many truths at once—about society, identity, and family—and flashes with radical compassion, fierce pride, bitter loss, and righteous anger, forming an incredibly complex portrait of what it means to be Palestinian today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":68046961836183,"sku":"9780316584685","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/0349\/4039\/files\/9780316584685_9aa74.jpg?v=1791928370","url":"https:\/\/littledistrictbooks.com\/products\/our-arab-on-longing-belonging-and-hope","provider":"Little District Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}