Author : Anan Ameri
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781643971315
The Wandering Palestinian
Anan Ameri
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The Wandering Palestinian
Anan Ameri
Author : Anan Ameri
Publisher : BHC Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643971328
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.
A Land of Stone and Thyme
Nur Elmessiri
Author : Nur Elmessiri
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The stories in this anthology are the work of a new generation of Palestinian writers who began to appear in the 1960s both inside Palestine & abroad.
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3846051764
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Among the Almond Trees
Hussein Barghouthi
Author : Hussein Barghouthi
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780857428967
A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death, life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home. Palestinian writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He had feared it was HIV, so when the cancer diagnosis was confirmed, he left the hospital feeling a bitter joy because his wife and son would be spared. The bittersweetness of this reaction characterizes the alternating moods of narration and reflection that distinguish this meditative memoir, Among the Almond Trees. Barghouthi's way of dealing with finality is to return to memories of childhood in the village of his birth in central Palestine, where the house in which he grew up is surrounded by almond and fig orchards. He takes many healing walks in the moonlit shadows of the trees, where he observes curious foxes, dancing gazelles, a badger with an unearthly cry, a weasel, and a wild boar with its young--a return not only to the house but to nature itself. The author decides to build a house where he would live with his wife and son, in whom he sees a renewal of life. The realization of his impending death also urges him to vocalize this experience, and he relates the progress of the disease at infrequent intervals. And, ultimately, he details the imaginative possibility of a return to life--to the earth, where he would be buried among the almond trees.
Mapping My Return
Salman H. Abu-Sitta
Author : Salman H. Abu-Sitta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9774167309
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.
Does the Land Remember Me?
Aziz Shihab
Author : Aziz Shihab
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081565054X
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.
Return
Ghada Karmi
Author : Ghada Karmi
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1781688443
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.
Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual
Zeina G. Halabi
Author : Zeina G. Halabi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1474421407
Zeina G. Halabi examines the unmaking of the intellectual as prophetic figure, national icon, and exile in Arabic literature and film from the 1990s onwards. She comparatively explores how contemporary writers and film directors such as Rabee Jaber, Rawi Hage, Rashid al-Daif, Seba al-Herz and Elia Suleiman have displaced the archetype of the intellectual as it appears in writings by Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan and Mahmoud Darwish. In so doing, Halabi identifies and theorises alternative articulations of political commitment, displacement, and loss in the wake of unfulfilled prophecies of emancipation and national liberation. The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual offers critical tools to understand the evolving relations between aesthetics and politics in the alleged post-political era of Arabic literature and culture. --
The Palestinian Diaspora
Helena Lindholm Schulz
Author : Helena Lindholm Schulz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1134496699
Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between diaspora and the creation of national identity.