The Parisian

Jenin,

kufiya

sophistical.

The truth was that very few of the men sitting in Sheikh Qassem that day had ever met a European Jew. The Yishuv settlements were mostly quite far from Jabal Nablus, and as a result their only conception of European Jewish men and women was based on those devout incumbents of Jerusalem who were not even Zionists, and on the Samaritan Nabulsis, who

carob

in the winter of 1917, while Hassan was en route to Zawata, the Ottomans lost Jerusalem to the British. Hassan had only reached Jenin when his cousins brought him news that the Turks had retreated to Nablus and were establishing their new stronghold for northern Palestine inside the walls of her old city. Hassan turned back up the road by which he

Sedd-el-Bahr

But the war had wrought changes, and in its wake Nablus was for the moment troubled with uncertainty. Trade was restored, the rationing was over. But tales of Salah ad-Din and Crusader battles were surfacing in the common memory as newspapers read aloud in coffee shops reported the redrawn maps, and their beautiful city, which had always been the s

In Paris, Faruq had expounded an idea that marriage could be a kind of romantic limitation, though not the province of romance itself.