[Beyond the Pale] talks with Raja Shehadeh about his great uncle Najib Nasser, whose opposition to the Ottomon Empire’s entry into WWI on the size of the Germans led him to flee his home and travel through the region of the great Rift Valley (today divided among the states of Israel and its Occupied Territories, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan). In A Rift in Time, Shehadeh traces his great uncle’s footsteps and experiences both a temporal and geographic rift.

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