Ever Land

It is the year 2000 when Dinah, a Jewish teenager from London, arrives in Israel with her family. Still reeling from the death of her beloved dad, the idea of having to start all over again daunts her. Dinah isn’t quite sure what to make of this seemingly pristine place: her new life seems soulless and suffocating. Another teenager, Safa, watches Dinah settle in. A fourteen-year-old Palestinian who was shot and killed decades ago in the Six Day War, Safa is caught in a limbo which she calls the ‘In-Between’. She is unable to fully pass on without knowing what happened to her younger sister, Nur, who is still alive somewhere. Thirty-three years after her death, the possibility of finding her is suddenly within reach – but she needs Dinah to help her.

Alternating between past and present, and between Safa and Dinah, Ever Land is a gripping and powerful story that sheds light on the ongoing occupation of Palestine. It is a tale of belonging and identity, of devastation and displacement and – ultimately – of the enduring universality of humanity and love.

Amy Abdelnoor is a British-Arab author whose writing is deeply shaped by her Lebanese heritage and her longstanding connection to Palestine. Her maternal grandfather, Munir, was Lebanese by birth and came from a family that relocated from Deir al-Qamar in the Chouf mountains to Egypt, a family history that has remained a powerful source of fascination and inspiration.

Raised in Essex, Amy studied at Cambridge University, initially reading English before switching to Arabic. During her university years, she lived and worked in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and after graduating moved to Ramallah, where she arrived just months after the beginning of the Second Intifada. Her experiences in Lebanon and Palestine profoundly shaped her understanding of the region and remain central to her sense of identity.