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Dancing with Birds

Salameh, Hadeel J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985

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2019, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing/Fiction.
DANCING WITH BIRDS is a historical fiction that follows the Al-Hani family from the 1930s Palestinian Resistance Movements to the Six Day War of 1967. It is a story about a family’s effort to keep a sense of belonging during a time where the familiar transforms to the unthinkable, from Palestine to a new state called Israel. Told chronologically in five parts representing fragmented identities, the story first follows Ibrahim, who is forever torn between defending his nation or protecting his family throughout the 1930s and, then, again at the 1948 Haganah intrusions into his village. It follows his son, Hamza, after a harsh separation, taking the reader on a route from Haifa to Acre as Hamza leads his family to refuge. It follows Ehud, a Jewish boy loved to Ibrahim as his own son, as he struggles with his newfound Israeli identity in his post-Palestine 1950s homeland. The Six Day War of 1967 then sheds light on these characters and their families, who are left haunted by the past and the future alike. It is a story of fatherhood and of boyhood—of a father who struggles to protect his family and his nation, of a son who comes to age during a time of war, only to balance responsibilities of adulthood and desires of childhood. It is a story of sacrifice for something greater than oneself, of family and patriotic duty at the same time, of friendship, and of identity. Following over two decades of time, this novel’s real estate (approximately 110,000 words) takes its reader on a journey through time that shares the pains of war and loss, of hope and faith, of responsibility and resilience.
Lawrence Coates, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Brad Felver, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
364 p.
Language Arts
Abstract; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Generational Story; Family; Friendship; Home; Fatherhood; Coming-of-age; Resistance; Displacement; Diaspora; Palestine; Israel; Palestine-Israel

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  • Salameh, H. J. (2019). Dancing with Birds [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Salameh, Hadeel. Dancing with Birds. 2019. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Salameh, Hadeel. "Dancing with Birds." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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