{"product_id":"tears-for-tarshiha-by-olfat-mahmoud","title":"‘Tears for Tarshiha’ by Olfat Mahmoud","description":"\u003ch4\u003eBorn in the Burj Barajneh refugee camp in Lebanon, Olfat Mahmoud grew up inside the long aftermath of the Nakba, carrying an inherited attachment to Tarshiha, the Palestinian town from which her family had been displaced.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe memoir covers childhood in the camps through the Lebanese Civil War, through to Palestinian political organising and nursing with the Palestinian Red Crescent, then eventually academia. Large political events — the Cairo Agreement, the rise of the PLO in the camps, Israeli military campaigns, Sabra and Shatila — are experienced through houses, family photographs, nursing wards, neighbourhoods and people repeatedly rebuilding lives inside conditions they did not choose. Mahmoud’s account is not simple recollection but instead a swing at the idea that exile eventually exhausts political memory. \u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eTarshiha survives because people continue to remember it, narrate it and orient themselves towards it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWild Dingo Press, Melbourne, 2018. First edition. Paperback. Light shelf wear only; internally clean and unmarked. Very good to near fine condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46267424440403,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-14T170340.870.png?v=1789369456","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/tears-for-tarshiha-by-olfat-mahmoud","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}