Before the Flood

“Before the Flood is a heart-wrenching and searingly personal chronicle of a homeland and a people. More than a family memoir, it speaks to the soul of Palestine across generations. It dismantles zionism's colonial fairytales and lays bare the moral core of our resistance born, as it is, of profound love for our ancestors and the sacred dignity of home. A moving testament to the power of memory and life's stubborn impulse for freedom.”

– susan abulhawa, author of Against the Loveless World

“As a historian of colonization, I found this brilliant work clarifying the history that has gone from colonization and land theft to outright attempted genocide. Deeply researched and highly readable, Before the Flood is a must read, leading to action and protest.”

– Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

“Ramzy Baroud aspires to nothing less than to tell the story of Palestine on Palestine’s own terms. In Before the Flood, form and content realize perfect symmetry in revealing how the individual plight of all Palestinians is emblematic of a broader, collective condition—one of harrowing loss, yes, but also rootedness, joy, and the galvanizing constancy of steadfast defiance that will inevitably stamp out history’s transient oppressors. A poetic genealogy of resistance that transmutes personal loss into communal edification, Before The Flood is a masterpiece of Palestinian revolutionary literature.”

– Omar Zahzah, author of Terms of Servitude