Spring in the heart

Book excerpt: Salim Nazzal is a Lebanese born Palestinian Norwegian residing in Norway. He is from a Galilean family expelled to Lebanon from their home in Palestine by Israel in 1948. He is lecturer, researcher in history, playwright and poet. Nazzal is the author of “The road to Baghdad“ (2015) which is a number of plays critical to war, religious fanatism and intolerance. He wrote several books such as “Bitter harvest. Insights in culture, thinking, and political sociology” (2015). And “the question of Palestinian education in exile” (1993). Also “the Bedouin society, a sociological study in the function of songs” (1992) and he wrote “Love Songs on the Vistula River” (2016). In addition he wrote hundreds of studies and articles about the Middle East. His articles are translated into more than 20 Languages.