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In Israel-Palestine, a transcendent tale of forbidden love

She was an Israeli human rights lawyer living in Tel Aviv. He was a Palestinian-Muslim scholar from the West Bank. Despite her Jewish heritage and against all the odds, they fell in love and somehow, they made it work.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Sari Bashi about her 2021 memoir “Upside Down Love,” which is now available in English for the first time.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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