Umm Sa‘d and Other StoriesIn simple and lucid English, we are presented here with pure artistic joy, and the sheer agony of a whole people transplanted from their dear homeland to be thrown away in an Arab diaspora perpetrated by the Jews. Kanafani did not live long, but his words did. The pencil in his right hand was so keen, and the beauty of his Bride, among other short stories, as well as his novella, Umm Sad, had a simplicity so disarming that it armed every member of the