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Author : Anan Ameri
Release : 2020-09-10
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Book Rating : 315/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wandering Palestinian by : Anan Ameri
Download or read book The Wandering Palestinian written by Anan Ameri. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anan Ameri
Release : 2020-11-19
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wandering Palestinian by : Anan Ameri
Download or read book The Wandering Palestinian written by Anan Ameri. This book was released on 2020-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anan Ameri played a pivotal role in the creation of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The Wandering Palestinian chronicles her life from 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon to Detroit, Michigan as she learns how to adjust to culture shock, finds her independence, and becomes a driving force in Detroit’s large and politically active Arab American community—an involvement that helped her break away from her isolation, resume her activism, and paved the way for her to become a recognized and respected leader in her community.
Author : Salman H. Abu-Sitta
Release : 2016
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 309/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mapping My Return by : Salman H. Abu-Sitta
Download or read book Mapping My Return written by Salman H. Abu-Sitta. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salman Abu Sitta was just ten years old when the Nakba-the mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948-happened, forcing him from his home near Beersheba. Like many Palestinians of his generation, this traumatic loss and his enduring desire to return would be the defining features of his life from that moment on. Abu Sitta vividly evokes the vanished world of his family and home on the eve of the Nakba, giving a personal and very human face to the dramatic events of 1930s and 1940s Palestine as Zionist ambitions and militarization expanded under the British mandate. He chronicles his life in exile, from his family's flight to Gaza, his teenage years as a student in Nasser's Egypt, his formative years in 1960s London, his life as a family man and academic in Canada, to several sojourns in Kuwait. Abu Sitta's long and winding journey has taken him through many of the seismic events of the era, from the 1956 Suez War to the 1991 Gulf War. This rich and moving memoir is imbued throughout with a burning sense of justice and a determination to recover and document what rightfully belongs to his people, given expression in his groundbreaking mapping work on his homeland. Abu Sitta, with warmth and wit, tells his story and that of Palestine.
Author : Aziz Shihab
Release : 2011-09-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 54X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Does the Land Remember Me? by : Aziz Shihab
Download or read book Does the Land Remember Me? written by Aziz Shihab. This book was released on 2011-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey. Part memoir, part travelogue, it reveals the complexities of leaving behind such the past and coming to grips with its abandonment. With his sharp ear for dialogue and with a journalist’s eye, Shihab records and considers, sometimes with fond humor, the Palestinian psyche. Family meetings brim with soothing time-honored ritual and cultural blindness. Pungent street anecdotes resonate with profound themes like human rights, land dislocation, and poverty. Shihab’s stories of departure and return, loss of land and reconnection provide enriching insights into the depth and intricacy of Palestinian culture and history and its legacy of displacement.
Author : Ghada Karmi
Release : 2015-05-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Return by : Ghada Karmi
Download or read book Return written by Ghada Karmi. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima “The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place taking me back to London and thinking hopelessly, ‘flotsam and jetsam, that’s what we’ve become, scattered and divided. There’s no room for us or our memories here. And it won’t be reversed.’” Having grown up in Britain following her family’s exile from Palestine, doctor, author and academic Ghada Karmi leaves her adoptive home in a quest to return to her homeland. She starts work with the Palestinian Authority and gets a firsthand understanding of its bizarre bureaucracy under Israel’s occupation. In her quest, she takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the heart of one of the world’s most intractable conflict zones and one of the major issues of our time. Visiting places she has not seen since childhood, her unique insights reveal a militarised and barely recognisable homeland, and her home in Jerusalem, like much of the West Bank, occupied by strangers. Her encounters with politicians, fellow Palestinians, and Israeli soldiers cause her to question what role exiles like her have in the future of their country and whether return is truly possible.
