“The Worst of Two Choices or The Forsaken Olive Trees” by Najwa Qa’war from ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN PALESTINIAN
LITERATURE edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. Copyright 1992 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the author.
Complete document, "Are You Listening: Voices from the Middle East" is available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/mideast/outreach.