The lemon tree an arab a jew and the heart of the middle east is the story of two people trying to get beyond denial and closer to a truth they can both live with by its end bashir khairi and dalia eshkenazi are still arguing talking and mostly disagreeing. This item the lemon tree an arab a jew and the heart of the middle east by sandy tolan hardcover 3300 only 1 left in stock order soon ships from and sold by abide bookstore. Sandy tolan is a teacher and radio documentary producer he is the author of two books me and hank a boy and his hero twenty five years later free press 2000 about the intersection between race sports and american heroes and the lemon tree an arab a jew and the heart of the middle east bloomsbury 2006. Humane and literate and rather daring in suggesting that the future of the middle east need not be violent starred review kirkus tolan weaves together dramatically different perceptions of the conflict and its context and explains how the lemon tree grew to become a powerful symbol of home nprorg a moving story of both grief and . March 18 2012 200 330pm the lemon tree an arab a jew and the heart of the middle east by sandy tolan in the summer of 1967 not long after the six day war three young arab men ventured into the town of ramla in what is now jewish israel they were cousins on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes their families had been driven out of palestine nearly twenty years earlier