A novel while the world sleeps follows four generations of the Abu Al-Haggia family, who lived in a quiet Palestinian village, growing olives. It narrates the suffering they have been exposed to since the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948, and how their peaceful lives collapsed forever, and they were forcibly deported from their village and ancestral land to a refugee camp in Jenin, to begin a tragedy that continues to this day.
Through the eyes of Amal, the granddaughter of the head of the family. We find out about them and what happened. For example, for her two brothers: the first, sacrifices everything he has for the Palestinian cause, and the other was kidnapped from his family to become a soldier in the Israeli army and an enemy of his brother. While Amal's dramatic story spans the six decades of the Arab-Israeli conflict: incidents of love and loss, childhood, marriage and family life, and the need to share all this history with her daughter to preserve the greatest love of her life. This book is a human story rich in true touching details. It is one of the best sellers in the United Kingdom. The rights to publish and translate this novel have been sold in nineteen countries and is currently being produced as a movie.