Tasting the Sky Author:Ibtisam Barakat In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be a child whose world is shattered by war. — With candor and courage, she stitches together memories of her childhood fear and confusion as bombs explode near her home and she is separated from her family; the h... more »arshness of life in the Middle East as a Palestinian refugee, her unexpected joy when she discovers Alef, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. As language becomes her refuge- a true home that can never be taken away- she begins to piece together the fragments of her splintered world.« less