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In the beginning of the 18th<\/sup> century, on the shores of the Sea of Tiberias, between the hills of Galilee and Marj Ibn Amar, a young man of the common people began his ambitious undertaking: liberating his country and establishing an Arab state on the land of Palestine. It was the greatest dream that one could entertain in those days, and the person who achieved it was called Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani(1689\u20131775). To achieve that end, it was necessary to challenge the greatest power in the world of that time: the Ottoman Empire, which ruled over three continents.<\/p>\n

The Lanterns of the King of Galilee <\/em>is a wide-ranging historical novel by the prolific Palestinian-Jordanian writer Ibrahim Nasrallah. It is one of the works in the Palestinian Comedy series, Nasrallah\u2019s comprehensive literary undertaking, which also included the novel Time of White Horses<\/em>, which was translated into Hebrew in 2018 and which, too, was published in the Maktoub series.<\/p>\n

Editing of the translation: Kifah Abdul Halim<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literary editing: Daphna Rosenbluth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prologue: Eyad Barguthy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Postface: Prof. Mahmoud Yazbak<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cover: Taleb Dweik <\/strong>| Moonrise over Palestine (1988)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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