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'Thirteen-year-old Hayaat is on a mission. She believes a handful of soil from her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem will save her beloved Sitti Zeynab's life. The only problem is the impenetrable wall that divides the West Bank, as well as the check points, the curfews, the permit system and Hayaat's best friend Samy, who is mainly interested in football and the latest elimination on X-Factor, but always manages to attract trouble.

'But luck is on their side. Hayaat and Samy have a curfew-free day to travel to Jerusalem. However, while their journey may only be a few kilometres long, it may take a lifetime to complete.' (Publisher's blurb)

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'Hayaat is on a mission. She will even skip school to achieve it (encouraged by her best friend Samy). She is determined to retrieve a handful of soil from her Grandmother’s farm as this will make her beloved Sitti Zeynab well again. Standing between her and her goal is the impenetrable wall that divides the West Bank.

'With themes of displacement, family, freedom and friendship, this is a powerful story of one family’s response to the confinements of curfew and how they rise above, with humour and love.'

Source: Monkey Baa

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  • Dedication: To my grandmother Sitti Jamilah, who passed away on 24th April 2008, aged 98. I had hoped that you would live to see this book and that you would be allowed to touch the soil of your homeland again. It is my consolation that you died surrounded by my father and family and friends who cherished you. May you rest in peace.

    And to my father — may you see a free Palestine in your lifetime.

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  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it is set in the Middle East.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan Macmillan Australia , 2008 .
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      Extent: x, 286p.p.
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      • Publication date: 1 October 2008.
      ISBN: 9780330424202
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Marion Lloyd Books ,       2009 .
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      Extent: 227p.
      ISBN: 9781407112145
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Scholastic Press ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 313p.p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      ISBN: 0545172926, 9780545172929
Alternative title: حينما كان للشوارع أسماء : رواية /​ رندة عبد الفتاح ؛ ترجمة أميرة نويرة، نبيل نويرة
Transliterated title: Ḥīnamā kāna lil-shawāriʻ asmāʾ : riwāyah
Language: Arabic
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A Handful of Soil: An Ecocritical Reading of Land in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name M. M. Raihanah , Ahmed Yahaya Hamoud , Ruzy Suliza Hashim , 2014 single work criticism
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— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 8 no. 2 2014; (p. 137-148) 'This article explores how Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979-), a Palestinian-Egyptian Australian diasporic writer, engages with the land as being ecocritically functional in her Palestinian-centred novel Where the Streets Had a Name (2008). The premise of the article is that a fictional representation of the Palestinian struggle for emancipation against occupation can be read for its environmental concerns; in particular, for the representation of the intersections of nature and culture. To this end, the article proposes a tripartite approach in reading politics of environment in the narrative by focusing on the effects of land on mind, body and voice. The analysis is carried out through the lens of ecocriticism and it reveals the symbiotic interconnections between humans and land. The findings reveal that the crisis experienced by the Palestinians in Abdel-Fattah‟s fiction goes beyond the need to preserve their past as the land has strong implications on their present state of mind, body and voice.' (Publication abstract)
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