"The strange river" can be considered by the distinguished writer "Jamal Naji" as a founding novel, not in terms of fiction writing that travels far away in the Palestinian time, only (from the First World War until the end of the twentieth century), but rather in its deeper research on the foundations of identity and self Humanity in this region along the Levant: Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The novel deals with the Palestinian al -Nafir stations by shedding light on the Palestinian family, "Ismail Abu Hala", his displacement, his wife and children from his Abbasid village, near Jaffa, and his transformation into a refugee in the Jordan Valley; Until that strange visitor to his homes will come to his homes, Abu Hala stands amazing and wondering in himself who is the guest, and what he wants, and how to know the old rural greeting "Al -Awaf", my uncle Ismail?! This narration crosses history and illuminates it widely, transmitted between Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, to reveal the reader in a bold and rare way, the victims of politics everywhere in the world, mixing the papers, and singling out the major powers with the fate of weak peoples, charity to history with great values. And questions of love, death, destiny and relationship with nature in its deepest manifestations, and the contemplation of spiritual and mythological history; And the way people live in this region and turn it from Bedouin to urbanization; And backing into the history of a brilliant Palestinian national struggle.