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Osama Al-Eissa

أسامة العيسة

Born 1963 · Palestinian Territories

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    Sama' al-Quds al-sabi'a

    Title translated by AI:“The Seventh Sky of Jerusalem”

    Osama Al-Eissa · 60 when first published

    Novel · 677 pages · Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In the 1970s Jerusalem, out of its second war in twenty years and close to famine, tries to absorb the shock of a new occupation, seen through the ordinary people of the walled city rather than its slogans.