This is a quote I like from Ilyas Khouri's novel Gate of the Sun:
"A land cannot move from where the land is. This land will remain and the question is not who occupies the land. Occupying the land is an illusion. No one can occupy land. How can you occupy a land when you are going to end up buried in it? It is land that occupies everyone and takes them to her." ( my translation, pg. 26, re-published edition 2008, Dar el Adab: Beirut)
Thank you Ahmad D. D. for the novel...
