A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. Cutouts along the edges of the pages display various animals and colors.

In his novel «Ibn al-Basha Zarif al-Tawl,» writer Fadi Shadid evokes all forms of symbolic capital related to Palestinian identity, past and present. The blessed tree and its leaves fall, and the inspiration for the Palestinian legend and its hero Zarif Al-Tawl, and the story of his love for Anat, the village girl...