Jul 7, 2026 · 33 min · 15 segments
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the writer Amy Abdelnoor. Ever Land, her debut novel, explores the Palestinian resistance against Israel's brutal colonisation through the eyes of…
Amy AbdelnoorGuest
William LawHost
Everland interweaves the stories of two young women, Safa, a Palestinian shot and killed by the IDF at the end of the Six-Day War in 1967, and Dina, a British Jewish teenager who emigrates in the early 2000s with her mother and stepfather to a settlement in the West Bank.
Safa is a spirit seeking her little sister Noor, who was lost in the attack on their village.
She is the source, the voice that drives Dina to see the reality, the horror of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
Where and how, Amy, did you find these two marvelous characters to tell the story of Everland?
The first one is that when I lived in refugee camps, I lived in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and in my late teens, early 20s, when I was at university and afterwards.
And they're in the furthest south, southernmost refugee camp in Lebanon, Rashidiyah.
And in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the whole family were fleeing the camp and the Israeli army shot and killed her parents in front of her.
So I very much had this idea of this kind of, you know, idea that a whole family could be wiped out, things that terrifyingly we've seen.
Everland interweaves the stories of two young women, Safa, a Palestinian shot and killed by the IDF at the end of the Six-Day War in 1967, and Dina, a British Jewish teenager who emigrates in the early 2000s with her mother and stepfather to a settlement in the West Bank.
Safa is a spirit seeking her little sister Noor, who was lost in the attack on their village.
She is the source, the voice that drives Dina to see the reality, the horror of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
Where and how, Amy, did you find these two marvelous characters to tell the story of Everland?
The first one is that when I lived in refugee camps, I lived in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and in my late teens, early 20s, when I was at university and afterwards.
And they're in the furthest south, southernmost refugee camp in Lebanon, Rashidiyah.
And in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the whole family were fleeing the camp and the Israeli army shot and killed her parents in front of her.
So I very much had this idea of this kind of, you know, idea that a whole family could be wiped out, things that terrifyingly we've seen.
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