2026-10-07
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Hello, my name is Fida Jiris.
I am the author of No Place Like Home, My Bitter Return to Palestine,
published in 2022. I'm a Palestinian writer and I grew up in exile.
I was one of very few Palestinians following the Oslo Accords that were allowed to return to their ancestral village,
which is now in Israel, and I experienced this return with my family.
The return was so difficult in so many ways and opened
my eyes to the reality of living as a Palestinian inside Israel and later in the West Bank.
The experience was so profound and so difficult in so many ways that it prompted me to write a book about it
and a book about Palestine through the eyes of my family and through my family's story.
This piece was an excerpt from my book about our process of return