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The Lilac Girl is a beautifully written and illustrated imaginative story about the departure of renowned Palestinian artist and educator Tamam Al-Akhal from the city of Jaffa where she was born. The story portrays Tamam as a young girl who dreams about returning to her first home, which she has been away from for 75 years, since the Palestinian Nakba.

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Ibtisam Barakat is a bilingual Palestinian-American poet, artist, translator, educator and the author of the critically acclaimed memoirs, Tasting the Sky, a Palestinian Childhood (FSG/2007) and Balcony on the Moon, Coming of Age in Palestine (FSG/Macmillan 2016). The two memoirs combined won more than thirty awards and honors, including the International Reading Association's best book award, the Middle East Council's best book award, and the Arab-American Museum's best book award. Her Arabic language books include The Letter Ta' Escapes, which won the Euro-Mediterranean Anna Lindh Foundation's best book award for children's books in Arabic. Her most recent books include The Jar that became a Galaxy, which was the title for Palestine's national reading campaign in 2019 and The Lilac Girl, which won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Children's Literature.

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