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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: This kids' book wiped Israel off the map. Now it's wiped off Indigo bookshelves
Description: Amazing Women of the Middle East is an 112-page illustrated children's book. It profiles 25 famous women, including historical figures such as Cleopatra and Nefertiti, and also modern-day heroines like human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
What it doesn't include, however, is the State of Israel.
The book's colourful map of the Middle East removed any mention of the Jewish homeland, instead labelling the entire country as Palestine. The author is a Lebanese-born writer and translator who lives in England, and the is publisher is a Palestinian activist whose parents had a home in Jerusalem until 1948. Neither...