Faysal Mikdadi
I am a Palestinian. Do not relegate me to some imperial design suiting Israel's ends and tell me to pack off to Jordan or anywhere other than where I was born and where my forefathers have lived for well over a thousand year
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi
I come from a fairly long line of mercantile family forebears with strong business skills and profit inspired attitudes. Although I chose not to go into business as my brothers did and I became a teacher of English, every emotional nerve in my body believed in wealth creation as being the only way forward for all.
Even Churchill had, amidst the overgrown hedgerow of complex racism, a deep-rooted sense of decency and humanity when he acknowledged the injustice to Palestinians
Mallards Cottage was where I wrote my first novel. I called it The Return. I used to dream most of its events - the very plot was born of a dream on Christmas Eve of 1976
As ever in life, there were compensations that made life tolerable despite many difficulties.
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi
A poem by Dr Faysal Mikdadi