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In this cleverly crafted book, Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh creates a dazzling tapestry of Palestinian life in the Galilee through a series of short stories told through a gateway of physical ailments, or chief complaints, of his characters, who are also his patients. Each tale is a portrait of a native son or daughter of the land, struggling with the continuity of their indigenous society after coming under the foreign rule of conquering Zionists. In this captivating page-turner, Dr. Kanaaneh reminds us that the Palestinians who remained after the Nakba are the essential part of the native society that give a lie to the Israeli myth of a land without a people.

SUSAN ABULHAWA

Author, My Voice Sought the Wind and Mornings in Jenin

These vividly observed and always humourously recounted tales of a Palestinian doctors labors are at once a medical compendium of suffering and, more significantly, a testament to the Palestinian communitys will to endure and thrive in the face of oppression. Hatim Kanaaneh is a master storyteller whose intimate portraits of village life contain far bigger truths about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than any dry political analysis.

JONATHAN COOK

Journalist and author of Disappearing Palestine

A deep and insightful portrait of a little-known community: the Palestinians citizens of Israel. No one can fail to be charmed by these intimate, first-hand accounts of illness and health in an Arab village living in the shadow of Israeli discrimination.

GHADA KARMI, MD

Author, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

Hatim Kanaaneh, a Palestinian physician with Israeli citizenship, has written a poignant, stark, and loving collection of memories from a village in the Galilee. Kanaaneh delves into the complex relationships of agricultural life, mythical tales from a pre-1948 rural paradise (not without superstition and human frailty), the harsh consequences of the 1948 war, the decades of military rule within Israel, and the ongoing injustices and deprivation of modern Israeli policy and politics. The slow-moving tales recreate that sense of a bygone era, where a blend of gossip, nostalgia, outrage, perseverance, and wisdom is revealed in the conversations and behaviors of people, from illiterate, landless peasants to Western-educated professionalsmany defined by that bewilderingly sinister phrase, present absenteestrying to survive and succeed in a land that does not want them.

ALICE ROTHCHILD, MD

Author, Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience and On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion ; Director, Voices Across the Divide

In the style of the enchanting tales from One Thousand and One Nights , Hatim Kanaaneh captivates the reader with his stories about his practice as a (Harvard-educated) village doctor in a traditional Arab town in Israel, interweaving tales of illness and healing with loss of traditions and evolving family relationships. This gem of a book illustrates how social change and political discrimination and oppression are not only played out in the body politic, but also inside the bodies of the villagers.

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Author, New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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Publishers Cataloging in Publication

Kanaaneh, Hatim, 1937-

[Short stories. Selections]

Chief complaint : a country doctors tales of life in Galilee / Hatim Kanaaneh, MD.

pages cm

LCCN 2014958639

ISBN 9781935982340

E-book 978-1-935982-52-4

1. Physicians--Israel--Galilee--Fiction. 2. Human rights--Israel--Galilee--Fiction. 3. Galilee (Israel)--Social life and customs--Fiction. 4. Short stories. I. Title.

PR9510.9.K27A6 2014

823.92

QBI14-600196

Acknowledgments

I acknowledge, with thanks, the initial proofreading efforts undertaken by my friend, Bob Stiver, of Oahu, Hawaii. His scrutiny and suggestions for improvements to the overall consistency, readability, and quality of each chapter of my first draft were invaluable. My friend and editor, Ida Audeh, did much to embellish the stories Palestinian sensibility. To her, all due gratitude.

Except for Bobs and Idas gracious contributions, this writing project has stayed all in the family. At one of the many intimate gatherings in his courtyard in Arrabeh, my brother Sharif, the first of three anthropologists in the family and a recognized authority on Palestinian folklore, interrupted another of my anecdotes from my former village medical practice with an encouraging remark: You should set those vignettes in writing for generations to come! A dozen nephews and nieces voiced their approval.

The next morning, I started following his advice. I am indebted to my brother Sharif for his inspiring counsel.

As usual, Didi, my wife, read, corrected, and critiqued my writing and passed it on to our daughter, Rhoda, another accomplished Kanaaneh anthropologist, who approved it, suggested alterations, and admitted to crying fond tears of nostalgia for her Palestinian village childhood. To both Didi and Rhoda, and to Ty, our son, I owe much for their emotional support as I take license in retirement with matters beyond medicine. To all three members of my nuclear family, the nest that cuddled me in my clinical practice years, a loving hug.

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