Under the Nakba TreeMowafas family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. His childhood was spent in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, Mowafa visited his familys homeland of Palestine. It was the beginning of the Second Intifada and Mowafa witnessed first hand the effects of prolonged conflict and occupation. It was those observations and that