{"product_id":"refugee-poems-of-el-salvador-palestine","title":"Refugee: Poems of El Salvador \u0026 Palestine","description":"\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRefugee: Poems of El Salvador \u0026amp; Palestine \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby \u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"\u003ePaul Totah \u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Author), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"\"\u003eNajib Joe Hakim \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Photographer)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy combine poems about El Salvador in the 1980s along with works about Palestine spanning several decades? These two parts may seem unrelated, but to the author, they are of the same cloth as they both involve needless wars that result in the deaths of innocent civilians and the creation of refugees seeking safety far from the rubble of their homes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first part, “Refugee,” tells the story of Dr. Juan Romagoza Arce, a Salvadoran doctor who was jailed and tortured in his country for his work during the civil war there in the 1980s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe second part of this collection, “Palestine,” touches upon the violence that has devastated that region since the 1948, including the most recent attacks on Gaza that leading human rights groups have called a genocide. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe third part of this collection, “Refuge,” recounts the lives of the author's parents and their efforts to make a new home in the San Francisco Bay Area. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection asks the reader to consider how we all experience our own sense of being refugees and how we try to find refuge by crafting a home wherever we find ourselves. This duality — of feeling both rootless and rooted, of longing and belonging — is something that may speak to us all. As the U.S. government accelerates its efforts to deport undocumented people in a time when war, climate change, and the rise of authoritarian governments is creating new waves of migrants, we need to offer and a place of refuge and sanctuary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublication date: February 20, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003ePages: 80\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003eISBN-13: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e979-8248687817\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46979015475369,"sku":"Book_RefugeePoems of El Salvador \u0026 Palestine","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0608\/3844\/5225\/files\/9928EB0D-E901-4E30-9579-C09748C0A4A0.jpg?v=1775676648","url":"https:\/\/www.shoppalestine.org\/products\/refugee-poems-of-el-salvador-palestine","provider":"Shop Palestine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}