I'm How about you, this is Nick Estes, co-hosts of the Red Nation podcast.

Today we are joined by Fida Darius, who is the translator of

her father's book, Sabri Darius is the Foundations of Zionism, which was published this October

by Ebb. Also our friend, Louis Alde, and liberated texts were part of this production.

I just finished the book actually this morning.

You can't see this, but I'm holding it up.

It's about 600 pages, about 550 pages of just solid, like, facts.

It was a really, really wonderful book to read.

I'm a historian by training.

So this is probably the best exegis on the history or the foundations of the early Zionist movement.

But without further ado, I want to have you introduce yourself, Fida, if you can just

start by talking about who you are and how this project came about for you in terms of translating

this text. Thank you, Lincoln. Thank you very much for having me here today. I'm really very

happy to have this chance to chat about the book. I'm a Palestinian writer. I'm based in the Galilee, which is in the north of historical Palestine, what is today Israel. I come from a small village near the Lebanese border. My story is

slightly different to other Palestinians who, let's say, were born and grew up here in the

sense that I was born in exile. My father was exiled because of his political work in the

70s, and I was born in Beirut, in Lebanon, and only

through a long course of events after that, including the Oslo Peace Accords in the 90s,

were we able to come back.

I am a writer and a translator, and more than a decade ago, I decided that I would write our family's history in a book,

and I called it Stranger in My Own Land.

The book chronicled my experiences as a Palestinian returning to Palestine, effectively,

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