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The Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye
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17-year-old Ziad who lives in Qalandia refugee camp finds himself the sole bread winner of his family after his activist father gets arrested and becomes an administrative prisoner.
We first meet Ziad while he’s selling hot tea to a long line of people waiting in their cars to cross the checkpoint. Ziad lives with his great grandmother, mother, sister and younger brother. His great Grandma is senile and keeps repeating stories of the past but there is one story – in particular- that never changes. It is the story of the family’s lost gold left in their village – Lifta – when they were forced to flee during the war.
Ziad makes it his mission to find this gold which takes him on a treacherous journey back to his ancestral village. An exciting and moving story full of action and suspense. It is also a story about what it means to be a refugee, living under occupation in a refugee camp generation after generation.
It is a story about yearning to ‘return’ to the ancestral village his people were forced to leave and not allowed to return.
The Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye Parent and Teacher Guide
An exciting novel of self discovery and coming of age set in the occupied Palestinian territories. The novel shows a microcosm view of Palestinian life and the difficulties they face on a dailybasis. In this action packed novel 17 year old Ziad succeeds in visiting his ancestral abandoned village “ Lifta” and reconnects with his roots while searching for the family goldThe “ Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye” is a story that has many levels.
On one level it is an adventure action packed novel that also involves a treasure hunt and can be read as such.On a deeper level it can be read as a coming of age story and a search for roots. The protagonist Ziad lives in a refugee camp. His father is arrested and indefinetely detained by the Israeli authorities and without any trial. He is what is called an administrative detainee. Ziad finds himself the sole bread winner of his family.
The “ Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye” is also a story about the Palestinian Nakba. About a people driven out of their villages and their homeland and not allowed to return. It is also about the yearning that is transmitted from generation to generation for this lost homeland. In this case it is the village of Lifta which is unique among the 400+ documented Palestinian villages that were emptied of their original inhabitants .
Lifta has the distinction that it is the only village whose houses are still standing and have not been resettled by Jewish immigrants or turned into a tourist location or art colony.
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