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My father, standing in the back row, with his parents and three of his siblings in Tulkarem.

When heroes fall far from home

Perhaps I expected some measure of defiance, for him to rage, as Dylan Thomas begged of his father, ‘against the dying of the light.’ But in the end, there was no rage left in my father, even as the core injustice of his life — that he could never return home — remained. When he…

By Samer Badawi May 1, 2017