From the archive – No place like home: my bitter return to Palestine

从档案中——无与伦比的家:我苦涩的归乡之旅

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2026-10-07

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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2022: All my life, my exiled parents had told me about the tragedy of Palestine. Then, when I was in my early 20s, my family moved back – and I saw it with my own eyes By Fida Jiryis. Read by Sarah Agha. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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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