In this episode of This Is Not a Watermelon, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi joins us in our studio in Beirut to talk about her book "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948," which details the relationship between a group of friends who came together at a momentous time in the modern history of Palestine. The group, who Sonja calls her "famous five", features an extraordinary meeting of minds: Walid Khalidi, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Rasha Salam, Sally Kassab and Wolfgang Hildescheimer. The five straddle religious and cultural barriers to forge an unlikely friendship that becomes almost politically impossible after 1948. Learning about their friendship, we get snippets of life in Jerusalem during the British Mandate and other key moments in the country's history. We speak about how the bombing of the King David Hotel arguably marked a significant turning point for Palestine, and why it's important to read Palestinian and Israeli histories together considering how entangled they are.