Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor’s Tales of Life in the Galilee – with Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh

Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh from Arrabeh in the Galilee will speak at 7 PM, Thursday, May 21, at Orca Books, 509 4th Avenue East, in Olympia, about his latest book Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor’s Tales of Life in the Galilee. The book explores the changing, precarious, and ever­-shrinking world of Palestinians living in Israel. As his village’s first western-­trained physician, Dr. Kanaaneh has had intimate access to his neighbors’ lives, which he chronicles here in a fictionalized collection of vignettes. These compelling short stories reveal the struggles, triumphs, memories, and hopes of the indigenous Palestinian community living in a state that does not acknowledge their past or encourage their future.