In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations. Hala Alyan, a Palestinian ...

In Hala Alyan's debut novel, Salt Houses, the Yacoub family has a unique definition of home. Readers follow the family over six generations, from 1963 to 2014, as violence drives them from Palestine ...

Through fragments of history, memory, grief and hope, author and psychologist Hala Alyan braids together the story of her life — and the start of another. In I'll Tell You When I'm Home, Alyan writes ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Maya Salam THE ARSONISTS’ CITY By Hala Alyan There is a home in Beirut — its small courtyard ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan about the dangers of dehumanizing the Palestinian people. Hala Alyan recognized something familiar after ...

Geoff Bennett: Hala Alyan is an award-winning poet, author, and clinical psychologist. She was born in Illinois, but, growing up, spent time in several other states, as well as in Kuwait and Lebanon.

In her new memoir, Hala Alyan reflects on her fractured lineage and having a child against all odds Hala Alyan in Brooklyn, New York, on 28 May 2025. ‘You exist in both identities like a ghost,’ she ...

In this op-ed NYU professor, poet, and essayist Hala Alyan writes about her experience as a Palestinian-American, the danger of false narratives, and the importance of empathy when considering ...

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BIANNA GOLODRYGA: We’re going to continue our conversation now on trauma and we’re going to turn to Israel and Gaza. A week-long cease-fire may have silenced the bombs but the psychological scars from ...