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    Marfud
    Marfud
    Marfud
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    Marfud

    By D Reeder

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    The plight of the Palestinians is well known. Most are confined to enclaves within Israel which are deprived of freedoms and rights that many of us take for granted. Ad Deirat is a real village suffering many real difficulties in order to survive.

    There really is a place above the village visited by lorries into which the rubbish from thriving Israeli towns and villages is dumped. There really is a check point guarded by Israeli soldiers who prevent people leaving the area without good cause.

    However, in Ad Deirat weddings still take place. People still work the land; and the people maintain their traditions and beliefs as far as they are able. Some more than others.

    But for women in such a confined restricted space there can be other difficulties. It is not just the poverty that they have to contend with, but also the dictates of men in the village council, and also the strictures born from both faith and superstition.

    Marfud, a young Palestinian girl hopes to find a most unusual route out of Ad Deirat, one that I doubt you or I would ever lightly undertake. Will she succeed? Or are the odds stacked against her? Will she be the one to make things better for her people. Will she be the dawn of hope?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD Reeder
    Release dateJul 27, 2012
    ISBN9781476044569
    Marfud
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    D Reeder

    I am a writer living in the heart of England with a fascination for stories which slide between realities. References to ancient pagan mysteries pre-dating Christianity can often be found within my 'Tales of the Supernatural' where out of the everyday ordinary world come extraordinary stories.

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      Marfud - D Reeder

      ''Marfud"

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      Marfud

      Apart from a few smoking fires which burned away that day’s rubbish, there were hardly any twinkling lights in Ad Deirat for the village had no electricity. Its grey houses set like rough teeth within the mouth of a dry valley. Some pitted with ugly black satellite dishes, fixtures which had never worked; whilst others were braced by thin antennas which pointed towards a sky they could never reach.

      Funnily enough, now that she had slung her light bag over her shoulders and had started to walk away with the dust rising from around her feet, she no longer felt like an outcast, a rejected marfud; as shadows crept towards the village like purple bruises.

      From somewhere, a lone dog barked.

      There hadn’t been much to take, and if memories could have been shaken away too, like water from cold skin, then she would have done so willingly.

      Would Mikkel be there? Would he wait for her as promised?

      She had

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