Children of the Dew

From the late Palestinian poet Mohammad Al-As’ad comes a chronicle of the vanished village from which he was expelled, its geography, and its people.

Children of the Dew is the late poet Mohammad Al-As’ad’s first venture into literature beyond poetry. Genre bending poetic prose, the work centres on the expulsion of the author and his family from Umm al-Zinat, a Palestinian Mt. Carmel village in the Haifa district, upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948...