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He manages to get by, but he is cut off from a context, lacking a community or identity to cling to. Within this detachment he holds fast to the wish to receive a French passport that will enable him to reach the land of his fathers, in which the chain of his family\u2019s displacement began.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Two Tickets for Saffuriyeh <\/em>presents a young Palestinian voice that describes the third generation of refugeeism, the refugees who were scattered worldwide and became isolated witnesses seeking a personal\u2013collective memory that will afford them meaning, connections, and the possibility of a homeland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Translation editor: <strong>Muna Abu Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Literary editor: <strong>Dafna Rosenblit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Afterword: <strong>Eyad Barghuthy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cover: <strong>Bashir Makhoul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Preoccupation 10, oil on canvas, 111x111 cm, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yusef is thirty, but he carries on his back a seventy-year refugeeism. 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