This is the story of one Ameri- can plawright's willingness to question the world according to the U.S. media.

And it is the story of a Paleslinian-American's search for a past that had eluded him.

Central to both stories is a vil- lage in the Upper Galilee, where horses and cows now graze.

"Sahmatah" is a one-act play for two actors. lt debuted in the Pa- cific Northwest and Western Canada in 1996. ln 1998, it was produced in Arabic in the Masrah al-Midan theater in Haifa, and on the ruins ofthe village of Sahmatah in the Upper Galilee.

Exceeding all expectations, the play by Hanna Eady and Ed Mast is being scheduled for more than 80 perfoimances in Jerusalem, Nazareth, Ramallah, Gaza and other cities in lsrael and Palestine.

lncreasingly, the telling of the Palestinian experience is moving out of history books and into nov- els, plays, documentaries and tilms. 'Scattered Like Seeds." a novel by Shaw Dallal, has just been published by Syracuse University Press. L,nk readers may remem- ber Shaw as the author of our Jan. 1993 issue "lslam and the U.S. National lnterest." We are pleased now to carry his first novel in our catalog.

His and other current books and videos are listed on pages 14 to 16. lncluded in the offering is the complete script of the play 'Sahmatah."

John F. Mahoney Executive Director