# Once in a Promised Land

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- Book: [Once in a Promised Land](https://www.bookquiver.com/laila-halaby/once-in-a-promised-land) ([Once in a Promised Land.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laila-halaby/once-in-a-promised-land.md))
- Authors: [Laila Halaby](https://www.bookquiver.com/laila-halaby)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0708-391-8
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2008-01-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

They say there was or there wasn't in olden times a story as old as life, as young as this moment, a story that is yours and is mine. Once in a Promised Land is the story of Jassim and Salwa, who left...