{"product_id":"no-land-to-stand-on-notes-from-detention","title":"No Land to Stand on: Notes from Detention","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"No Land to Stand On \u003c\/i\u003enot only recounts, with chilling precision, an intimate experience of the free world's sinister new tyrannies, but it also describes a longer and ongoing ordeal of exile and ostracism. And yet, while troubling our consciences, Mahmoud Khalil opens our minds and hearts with his dignity, compassion, and hopefulness. With its spiritual and intellectual power, his book is already a classic of dissident literature, a true peer of Nadezhda Mandelstam's \u003ci\u003eHope Against Hope \u003c\/i\u003eand Eugenia Ginzburg's \u003ci\u003eJourney into the Whirlwind.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Pankaj Mishra\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe World After Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMahmoud Khalil\u003c\/b\u003e is a Palestinian born in a refugee camp in Syria. He fled Assad's Syria at the age of 18 and holds Algerian citizenship. He studied computer science at the Lebanese American University while working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, then served as programs manager at the British Embassy in Beirut. He moved to the United States in 2022 to attend Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he became a prominent figure during the student protests against the war on Gaza. Mahmoud lives in New York, where he continues to fight against the threat of deportation. \n\u003ci\u003eNo Land to Stand On \u003c\/i\u003eis his first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America's deportation regime\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Are you Mahmoud Khalil?\" The question marked the start of a politically charged odyssey that took the Palestinian graduate student and legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported him across the country, and locked him up in a Louisiana detention camp under threat of deportation. His \"crime\" exercising his right to free speech at Columbia University, where he emerged as a leading voice against the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. \n\u003ci\u003eNo Land to Stand On\u003c\/i\u003e is his indelible account, the story of a man confronting the reality that he had become target number one for a lawless regime shredding basic rights. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on his prison diary and writing in vivid, page-turning detail, Mahmoud Khalil conjures the despair and cruelty of ICE detention, where prisoners can vanish overnight and visiting families risk their own deportation. There is humanity, too, in the men's acts of care--their mutual help with documents, the prison cake they make after Mahmoud can only follow the birth of his son on the public payphone. In tandem, he tells the multi-generational story of a family expelled from Palestine to a Syrian refugee camp, of flight from Assad's regime to Lebanon, of arrival in an America that promised permanence and protection, and of the enduring struggle for Palestine. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of courage and resistance, \n\u003ci\u003eNo Land to Stand \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eOn \u003c\/i\u003eis a call to integrity, to staying true to one's life's mission, and to defending the inalienable right to safety, freedom, and a land to stand on. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eKhalil, Mahmoud\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMahmoud Khalil \u003c\/b\u003eis a Palestinian born in a refugee camp in Syria. He fled Assad's Syria at the age of 18 and holds Algerian citizenship. He studied computer science at the Lebanese American University while working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, then served as programs manager at the British Embassy in Beirut. He moved to the United States in 2022 to attend Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he became a prominent figure during the student protests against the war on Gaza. 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