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Nora Lester Murad

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Hollywood, California (really!)

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https://www.restinmyshade.com

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Fiction, Young Adult, Nonfiction

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Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Octavia Butler

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February 2012

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Nora Lester Murad moved to Jerusalem in 2004 with her Palestinian husband and three Palestinian-American daughters. She co-founded Palestine's first community foundation, Dalia Association, and Aid Watch Palestine, a community-driven aid accountability initiative. Nora has published in The Guardian, Aljazeera, Huffington Post, Open Democracy, and more. She speaks at international events around the world.

Rest in My Shade, co-authored with Danna Masad, will be released by Interlink in November 2018. An anthology of reflections by foreigners who have been transformed by Palestine is currently being shopped to agents. Nora is also finalizing two novels -- one is women's literary fiction and the other is aimed at upper middle grade.

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	Ida in the Middle 4.08 avg rating — 216 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Found Myself in Palestine 4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rest in My Shade: A Poem about Roots by Nora Lester Murad (Goodreads Author), Danna Masad 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries by Nora Lester Murad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mary L Onorato (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Year in Beit Hanina it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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You'll feel like you're in Gaza (not now, but in the past) with Taatgen's exquisite detail about the sights, sounds, and smells, of the small strip of land that has gotten global attention for all the wrong reasons. Taatgen's characters, both the Pal ...more
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