Nawal Halawa writes about the details of daily life with such knowledge and passion that the reader is completely drawn into the story, wondering how it was possible to impose such a painful experience on an innocent people without any consequences for the perpetrators. Perhaps Halawa’s story will one day help establish the 'Right of Return.'"
In this way, the researcher, journalist, and novelist Nawal Halawa (born 1946) succeeded in presenting the biography of the Palestinian people before, during, and after the Nakba to Canadian society. She reached their hearts through an act of struggle inseparable from her lifelong vision and goals in writing, journalism, and activism: to mobilize Palestinian memory and make it visible to the world through every available means.