Book snapshot

I wake up early. I make my morning cup of coffee and sit down, Browse the news. My coffee is bitter; I never like sugar. And so was the news of my country. And so, too, were the details of my life: bitter. I would neglect the news and write until all the bitterness ran out of my ink, until I was exhausted. When I read my writings, I listed them under the title ‘Black Coffee’. Since black coffee is a companion of sorrow in our Palestinian society, it is, perhaps surprisingly, also served at weddings. In my book, Black Coffee, I have included short stories woven from situations and ideas that tell us about the affairs of our society and specific experiences. It also contains thoughts about love, aiming to convey specific ideas for the reader to contemplate, alongside a very small dose of what we live through here in our country.