Building the house was more than a construction project. It was a lifetime of hope. I sketched a blueprint, planning every ...

Through fragments of history, memory, grief and hope, author and psychologist Hala Alyan braids together the story of her life — and the start of another. In I'll Tell You When I'm Home, Alyan writes ...

In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations. Hala Alyan, a Palestinian ...

Geoff Bennett: Hala Alyan is an award-winning poet, author, and clinical psychologist. She was born in Illinois, but, growing up, spent time in several other states, as well as in Kuwait and Lebanon.

At the very start of Hala Alyan's novel Salt Houses, a woman buys a coffee set — a dozen cups, a coffee pot, a tray. It's a simple act that unexpectedly becomes painful. The woman is Palestinian — ...

For poet Hala Alyan, year 29 was one of necessary endings -- saying goodbye to her 20s, her time as a student, her life as a single woman -- and big beginnings -- a new home, marriage to her husband.

The opening scenes of Hala Alyan’s new novel, Salt Houses, take place the night before a wedding in the mid 20th century in Nablus. A young woman, Alia, celebrates with her family and very early in ...