{"product_id":"leila-and-khaled-9781487013974","title":"Leila and Khaled","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA decolonial vacation romance between two Palestinians--one raised in exile, the other rooted on the land--searching for home in each other.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled--a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeric trance of desire, curiosity, and confrontation. Their brief charged affair unfolds in a landscape shaped by rupture and resistance, each of them bearing different inheritances of the same loss.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne night in Khaled's hotel room, Leila listens as he recounts a harrowing confrontation with a former paramilitary who participated in the Nakba of 1948. The conversation cracks open buried grief and fury, bringing history violently into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeila and Khaled\u003c\/em\u003e is a love story and a reckoning--a lyrical, unflinching meditation on belonging, memory, and the enduring wounds of colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e House of Anansi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487013974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nyla Matuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715524915381,"sku":"9781487013974","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/leila-and-khaled-9781487013974","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}