In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake
Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Dahir al-Umar
al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could
hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab
state. To do so he must challenge the rule of the greatest power in the
world at the time--the Ottoman Empire--while translating the ideals of
human dignity, justice, and religious tolerance into concrete daily
realities. In this compelling story of love and loss, victory and
defeat, loyalty and betrayal, award-winning poet and novelist Ibrahim
Nasrallah, author of the Arabic Booker shortlisted Time of White Horses,
once again brings Palestinian history alive with a set of characters and
events both real and imagined to capture the essence of a rich and
dramatic epoch in the turbulent annals of a land that has been fought
over for millennia.