Wrote Under the Nakba Tree: Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada (Athabasca U, 2019), a memoir about his family, which fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. After a visit back to Palestine in 2000, Mowafa Househ saw firsthand the effects of prolonged conflict and occupation. He realized that he shared intergenerational and colonial traumas similar to the Indigenous people of Turtle Island (a reference to the North American continent by some indigenous peoples). Househ compares and contrasts the lives of immigrants with thoe who live on occupied land. Househ is an associate professor at the University of Victoria.

BOOKS:

Wrote Under the Nakba Tree: Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada (Athabasca U, 2019) $24.99 978-1-77199-203-9

[BCBW 2019]