While the world sleeps

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This is the Arabic translation of the novel *Mornings in Jenin*. The novel, *While the World Sleeps*, follows four generations of the Abu al-Hajja family, who lived in a quiet Palestinian village, cultivating olives. It recounts their suffering since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, how their peaceful lives were shattered forever, and how they were forcibly displaced from their village and ancestral lands to a refugee camp in Jenin, beginning a tragedy that continues to this day. Through the eyes of Amal, the granddaughter of the family patriarch, we come to know them and what happened. For example, we learn about her two brothers: one who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause, and the other who is abducted from his family to become a soldier in the Israeli army and an enemy of his own brother. Amal's dramatic story spans six decades of the Arab-Israeli conflict: tales of love and loss, childhood, marriage, family life, and the need to share all of this history with her daughter to preserve the greatest love of her life. This book is a rich and moving human story, full of true details. It is one of the best-selling books in the United Kingdom, and the publishing and translation rights to this novel have been sold in nineteen countries and it is currently being produced as a film.