A Child in Palestine Eid Lessons in Islamic History is

Lessons in Islamic History is an essential summary of Shaykh Muhammad Khudari Bak's series of groundbreaking works on Islamic history

While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire

The language of hadith often goes over children's heads

He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other

graced by angels

A Child in Palestine Eid Lessons in Islamic History isNaji al Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty year career that would see his cartoons published daily in newspapers from Cairo to Beirut, London to Paris. Resolutely independent and unaligned to any political party, Naji al