International edition
AL TIRA
A literary thriller exploring how faith, identity, and inherited hate converge and how we allow fanaticism to breed terror.
Al Tira unfolds across cities and languages, where faith, culture, and identity become both refuge and burden.
It is a story about belief under pressure, impossible choices, and the moment when survival means ending the silence.
It is when you decide whether fear is greater than you.
In readers’ words
The story
Set in Athens, Florence, Cairo, Sinai, Tel Aviv, Damascus, and Bruges, Al Tira unfolds across cities shaped by memory, faith, and histories that refuse to stay in the past.
Against a backdrop of inherited fear, racism, and political tension, the novel traces lives defined by identity long before choice, and the cost of being silent when silence turns into consent.
At its center are two people drawn from radically different worlds.
Ester Navarro, a Greek Jew, lives a secular, carefree life until someone she loves is suddenly implicated in forces far beyond her reach.
Ari Davidson, an Israeli operative shaped by loss, duty, and restraint, moves within a darker reality, one governed by control, secrecy, and moral compromise, and is tasked with navigating the fragile line between protection and manipulation, truth and necessity.
Moving between past and present, Al Tira is a literary thriller about friendship, loyalty, belief, love, and impossible choices.
It follows what remains of humanity when faith hardens into certainty, truth becomes a tool, and love demands a cost no one is prepared to pay.
A note for readers
Al Tira engages with themes that may be emotionally challenging for some readers.
The novel explores issues related to religious extremism, political violence, psychological pressure, moral coercion, and loss. It also contains depictions of trauma, ethical conflict, and situations involving manipulation and betrayal.
These elements are presented within a literary and human-centered context, focusing on emotional and psychological impact rather than graphic detail.
Readers sensitive to these themes may wish to approach the novel with care.
If you’d like to know what inspired this story, the truth behind the fiction, you can read the author’s note here:
Behind the pages.