My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

Chronicles of resistance - My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

While news media may strive to inform us of the present, its voracious speed leaves little room for longer histories and more intimate stories. My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine, a collaboration between storyteller and anthropologist, was 10 years in the making, and the product of long conversations between Sawalha, who recounts, and Hermez, who listens. The book chronicles the lives of a Palestinian family through generations of war, violence and armed resistance to ongoing Israeli settler colonialism.

Sireen Sawalha was born in the small village of Kufr Rai in Jenin, Palestine. She moved to the US in 1990 where she studied at Rider University and works as social studies teacher in New Jersey. Her work on education was recognised by Cornell University in 2022.

Sami Hermez, is associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the author of War is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon (UPenn 2017), and My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine (Stanford 2024).

The Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy and the Centre for Feminist Research warmly invite you to a conversation with co-authors, Sireen Sawalha and Sami Hermez.

Host or Publisher Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy & Centre for Feminist Research