Photo of the summit of Ein Ina, seen from the village of Talfit, taken on August 13, 2026. The settlers' tent can be seen (see the arrow). Photo: Marah Musallam (courtesy of Akram Musallam).
Akram Musallam is a Palestinian novelist born in 1971 in Talfit, a village in the Nablus governorate. An editor at the Palestinian daily al-Ayyam, he holds a master’s in international studies and a bachelor’s in Arabic literature, both from Birzeit University. He is the author of four novels, among them "The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion," which has been translated into French, Italian, and English, as well as The Stork, also translated into French. His novel "A Girl from Shatila" earned him the Palestinian Creativity Prize.In this article, he talks about the mountain of his childhood, before an armed “pastoral outpost” was set up by the Israeli occupier in January 2026, radically altering the residents’ lives.I sit facing the mountain and look at it. The summit is just as I remember it from childhood: smooth and...
Akram Musallam is a Palestinian novelist born in 1971 in Talfit, a village in the Nablus governorate. An editor at the Palestinian daily al-Ayyam, he holds a master’s in international studies and a bachelor’s in Arabic literature, both from Birzeit University. He is the author of four novels, among them "The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion," which has been translated into French, Italian, and English, as well as The Stork, also translated into French. His novel "A Girl from Shatila" earned him the Palestinian Creativity Prize.In this article, he talks about the mountain of his childhood, before an armed “pastoral outpost” was set up by the Israeli occupier in January 2026, radically altering the residents’ lives.I sit facing the mountain and look at it. The summit is just as I remember it from childhood:...
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