"After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On arrival, Sonia is roped into playing Gertrude in a production of Hamlet in the West Bank, in a company of actors from all over historic Palestine. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many violent obstacles stand in their way. Amidst it all, the life in London Sonia once...

"Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad and his junta regime have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Syrians in the name of fighting terrorism. Former political prisoner, and current refugee, Yassin al-Haj Saleh exposes the lies that enable Assad to continue on his reign of terror as well as the complicity of both Russia and the US in atrocities endured by Syrians"--Publisher's description