In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations. Hala Alyan, a Palestinian ...

Hundreds more Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, especially near the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution site. Many warn that the conflict threatens to erase Palestinian ...

Doha: Novelist Hala Alyan discussed how her experiences and the experiences of her family inspired her to write about the struggles of identity in exile during a lecture at Northwestern University in ...

For poet Hala Alyan, year 29 was one of necessary endings -- saying goodbye to her 20s, her time as a student, her life as a single woman -- and big beginnings -- a new home, marriage to her husband.

Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan has a personal history of exile. Over the years, the author and her relatives have been displaced from their homes in Gaza, Kuwait, and Lebanon – and she says it ...

In her new memoir, Hala Alyan reflects on her fractured lineage and having a child against all odds Hala Alyan in Brooklyn, New York, on 28 May 2025. ‘You exist in both identities like a ghost,’ she ...

Through fragments of history, memory, grief and hope, author and psychologist Hala Alyan braids together the story of her life — and the start of another. In I'll Tell You When I'm Home, Alyan writes ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Maya Salam THE ARSONISTS’ CITY By Hala Alyan There is a home in Beirut — its small courtyard ...