Month: November 2024

Crossing the Line: An Israeli-Palestinian Love Story

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Revealing and poignant, Crossing the Line is the true story of a pair of star-crossed lovers—Mya, an American-Israeli immigrant woman, and Mohamed, the son of a Palestine Liberation Organization member who was deported by the Israelis from the West Bank in the 1970s. With a reporter’s eye for detail and a storyteller’s knack for nuance, Crossing the Line is a human story that portrays a psychologically complex couple bucking convention and breaking the greatest taboo on both sides–loving one’s “enemy.” This compelling memoir is also a tortured love letter to the land and the two peoples that, paradoxically, both nurtured Mya and Mohamed’s relationship while simultaneously casting them out.

Crossing the Line
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What People are Saying
“There are countless ways to talk about Israel and Palestine but few as moving and engrossing as this memoir. Crossing the Line is wonderful.”
— Junot Diaz, MacArthur Fellow & Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“A remarkable story, beautifully told, which shows that love can transgress even the most brutal political divides.”
— Peter Beinart, author, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
“This brave and beautifully rendered memoir—narrated at the sharp edge where the political meets the personal—reckons not only with a country’s borders but with the shadow lines within the self. Guarnieri writes with the lyric precision of one who has learned to translate survival into song.”
— Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka’s Last Trial, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and Jerusalem: City of the Book
“Crossing the Line is a genuinely singular and essential book. It is a love story unlike any other I have ever read. And it is a portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy unlike any other I have ever read. In both ways, Mya Guarnieri has written with both lyrical compassion and unrelenting, unflinching moral integrity.” — Samuel Freedman, author of Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, winner of the National Jewish Book Award

The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others

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Drawing on a decade of pioneering reporting, Mya Guarnieri Jaradat brings us an unprecedented and compelling look at the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Israel, who hail mainly from Africa and Asia. From illegal kindergartens to anti-immigrant rallies, from detention centers to workers’ living quarters, from family homes to the high court, The Unchosen sheds light on one of the most little-known but increasingly significant aspects of Israeli society.

In highlighting Israel’s increasingly harsh treatment of these newcomers, The Unchosen presents a fresh angle on the Israel-Palestine conflict, calling into question the state’s perennial justification of national security for mistreatment of Palestinians. More fundamentally, this beautifully written book captures the voices and the struggles of some of the most marginalized and silenced people in Israel today.

The Unchosen
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What People are Saying
“The world needs more journalists with Jaradat’s dedication, compassion, and unblinking intelligence. The Unchosen is as clear-eyed as it is heartfelt….essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Israel.”Ben Ehrenreich, journalist and author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
“Equipped with a profound knowledge of the plight of non-Jews who have come to Israel in search of work and asylum, Jaradat brings their struggles to life in all of their complexity. Recounting their courageous pursuit of dignity and freedom in the context of an ethnocratic state that continuously abuses and dehumanizes them, their stories are simultaneously tragic and inspiring, revealing the intricate webs of evil informing our times and the unwavering humanity of those who stand up against them.”Neve Gordon, co-author of The Human Right to Dominate