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Leila and Khaled

by Nyla Matuk

Love, inheritance, and a return to ancestral land

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Love, inheritance, and a return to ancestral land

Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, travels to Occupied Palestine with a delegation of academics, encountering a place tied to her family’s exile. Her meeting with Khaled, a younger Palestinian man, shifts the journey from intellectual inquiry into an intimate relationship. Their brief affair brings two different inheritances of loss into contact, set against a landscape marked by dispossession and resistance. The novel links private questions of desire and belonging with collective memory and the continuing effects of colonialism, making the relationship a frame for examining how personal histories meet the history of a place.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary fiction about Palestinian identity, exile, and belonging
  • Readers seeking a love story entwined with questions of memory and colonialism

Themes

Palestinian identity and belongingExile and ancestral returnLove and desireMemory and colonialismDispossession and resistance

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Book overview

Two Palestinians search for a language of love amid the ruins of dispossession.

Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled--a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeric trance of desire, curiosity, and confrontation. Their brief, charged affair unfolds in a landscape shaped by rupture and resistance, each of them bearing different inheritances of the same loss. Leila and Khaled is a love story and a reckoning--a lyrical, unflinching meditation on belonging, memory, and the enduring wounds of colonialism.

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