Widad Tamimi is a descendant of the writer Italo Svevo, granddaughter of the wealthy Jew Carlo Weiss, who fled Trieste to New York with his family from racial laws, and daughter of the Palestinian Kader Tamimi, a poor father, a Hebron native, a two-time refugee, who settled in Italy as a prominent pediatrician, where he also met the love of his life, lawyer and journalist Claudia Weiss. 

The book The Wind Rose links the fates of both; the life stories of his grandfather and father, who were affected by exile in their childhood. His father's family was during the Palestinian uprising against the British mandate fled to Jordan, but her father's medical studies brought him to Italy. On the other hand, her mother's Jewish family left fascist Italy, to which only her grandfather returned after the war.

The book is also a political message. "The message that a Jew and a Palestinian can sit at the same table and, in conversation, discover that they have more in common than what separates them. Based on the story of my family, I wanted to show that coexistence is possible," says Widad, who today lives in the center of Ljubljana, is married to a Slovenian and has three children. Kot volunteer helps refugees integrate into Slovenian society. Despite her family's multiple nationalities, she says, so that you can bury your exile: "Since my family didn't put down solid roots anywhere, I wanted to make it possible for my children - I moved to the country where my husband is from and put down roots here."«