In these pages, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon narrate their own histories. 11 Lives tells of children's adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next door, of football pitches transformed into battlefields, and of the love, labor, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh. The voices gathered here are unique, each an expression of the individual displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular, and each tells the story of all Palestinians.