Palestine - Beyond Hatred
Blog Post 82
Rabi al-Thani 29, 1447 – October 22, 2025
Announcing Our Latest Arrival
A Historical Political Novel
Survival and Faith
in the Midst of Violence and Oppression
FAJR ALMAS in PALESTINE – BEYOND HATRED departs from the usual format. Written entirely through atypical communication, such as news clips from newspapers and television newscasts, emails, phone calls, meetings, speeches and conversation transcripts, and diary entries, dated and identified, although fictionalized, her story revolves around two high school Muslim cousins – Aliyah in the US and Shakurah in Gaza. Aliyah must
come to terms with who she is and who she knows she should be, from self-satisfying needs to global ones, Allah-consciousness and human dignity by the help of Allah and her humble cousin.
The book is a factual account of the creation of the zionist state and the ensuing turmoil in the region, culminating with the devastating attack on Gaza in late December 2008. Muslim readers, interested in real-life political fiction, will find themselves educated and motivated by this book. All young adults will become informed about the history of this central part of the world and identify with the faith and strength of the oppressed Palestinian people. Even adults will find the format interesting and the story of survival and faith in the midst of violence and hatred touching. Shakurah’s attempt to put faces and names on the Palestinian martyrs is the author’s humble contribution to humanity, history and Islamic resistance.
A tiny sampling…
I don’t know how much longer we can take this. There is so much poverty in the camp. This is not the way we’re supposed to be living. All around me there is suffering. Most people don’t have enough food to eat and go for days without. All the roads are closed so no one can get in or out of this place. Buildings are just skeletons of steel and concrete because they’ve been bombed to death. Every day someone dies or is killed by Israeli bombs or snipers. Lots of houses have been set on fire near ours. Yesterday, I heard someone screaming in the streets. When I looked out the window, I saw people running down the road on fire. The flames were shooting out of their backs. It was so awful that I sat and cried for hours. My mother couldn’t stop me. There’s no electricity and the water is dirty. Raw sewage runs in the roads and collects in pools too wide to jump over. I haven’t been to school this year because it’s too dangerous. Everyone’s sick around me. There’s not enough doctors and little medicine. When will the world realize what’s going on here?
With this short excerpt from Fajr Almas’s new novel, her second, Palestine – Beyond Hatred, it is obvious why Inked Resistance Islamic Publishing publishes her. She is a writer of historical, political and powerful stories for young people, which demand attention and are smack dab in your face. Inked Resistance Islamic Publishing is proud to offer this important, uncomplicated and gutsy book.
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