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A small rustic towns spirituality awakens after a mangled and beaten stranger wanders in one day. Jan 04, 2007 in tucson, the marriage of a jordanian couple is tested by internal and external pressures. He was first mentioned in the bible when moses called upon him to lead the israelites in a battle against the amalekites. Laila halabys once in a promised land 2007 offers instructive insight into the. There is also a direct correlation between halabys novel and leslie marmon silkos. In one of the books most highly praised chapters, he gives an impressionistic yet stark account of massacres and ethnic cleansing by jewish forces in.
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