The Land In Our Bones Av Layla K. Feghali

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Canaan--a deep invitation to remember and reconnect to our roots amid displacement and in diaspora. Herbalist and author Layla Feghali shares a nuanced and layered cultural history of the healing plants of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and Canaan, exploring how they connect family and kin in diaspora--and call across generations of ancestral knowledge. Tying cultural survival to land-based knowledge and the plants, herbs, geography, medicines, and foodways that shape and sustain us, Feghali re-maps Canaan and its crossroads, explores the complexities and yearnings of diaspora, and explains the wounds of colonization. Feghali asks how we find our way home amid displacement: How do we embody the lands and the histories that bind us together, while holding the ways we've been wrested apart? What does it mean to be of a place, when extraction and empire destroy its geographies?