'Scarcely any personal narratives of the lives of Israel's Arab minority exist. Kanaaneh's fascinating exposure of this little known subject is written with passion and authority'
Dr Ghada Karmi 'A moving account of the plight of the Palestinians by one of them'
Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritu 'Blends the personal with the political, the past with the present ... Read moreand the emotional commitment with the rational analysis. It is a fascinating first hand account from the perspective of a Palestinian who defeats the imposed partition of the land and the fragmentation of its people: he belongs to Palestine on both sides ... both a native of the land and a refugee in it'
Ilan Pappe 'Sheds a unique light on the lives of ... Palestinians in a beautifully readable and engrossing memoir. His account of the rank racial discrimination, difficult social circumstances and pervasive poverty of most Palestinians in the Jewish state is leavened by Kanaaneh's humour and his eye for striking detail. This is a truly touching book that is hard to put down'
Rashid Khalidi 'Kanaaneh succeeds brilliantly in bringing to light his community, and 'the wall of seclusion and concealment' behind which Israel hasisolated its Palestinian citizens'
Emma Williams, The Lancet Show Less