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Author | : Alan W. Horton |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0578162709 |
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The Road to Ramallah is treacherous. Even when your guides are your oldest friends. Even when you're trying to do the right thing. Even when your country says it will watch your back as it sends you into harm's way. Cairo-based American businessman Bill Hampton doesn't know why he's being followed, or why mysterious men are stalking his family. He has no enemies. But neither US Embassy diplomats nor the CIA have any reassuring answers. Palestinian factions, Israeli security forces and American spies know Hampton has something much more dangerous than enemies. He has friends. Bill grew up in Palestine, and his boyhood pals are now leaders struggling for the power to make war or peace. The CIA thinks Bill can connect peacemakers on all sides... but if anyone suspects what he's doing, neither Bill nor his friends will survive. The Road to Ramallah is a classic thriller of international intrigue, divided loyalties and dangerous love.
Author | : Amira Hass |
Publisher | : Semiotext(e) |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Reporting from Ramallah Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Israeli journalist Amira Hass chronicles the experiences she had while living in Ramallah.
Author | : Mourid Barghouti |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307486141 |
Download I Saw Ramallah Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home for the first time since the Israeli occupation, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. Sifting through memories of the old Palestine as they come up against what he now encounters in this mere “idea of Palestine,” he discovers what it means to be deprived not only of a homeland but of “the habitual place and status of a person.” A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today’s Middle East.
Author | : Guy Mannes-Abbott |
Publisher | : Black Dog Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781907317675 |
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In Ramallah, Running represents Guy Mannes-Abbott's uniquely personal encounter with Palestine, interweaving short, poetic texts with exploratory essays. International artists and prominent writers have been invited to respond both directly and indirectly to the texts with newly commissioned works.
Author | : Murīd Barghūthī |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Poets, Palestinian Arab |
ISBN | : 9780747569275 |
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In 1966, the Palestinian poet Barghouti, then 22, left home to return to university in Cairo. Then came the 6 Day War and Barghouti, like many Palestinians living abroad, was denied entry back into Palestine. Thirty years later he was finally allowed back. This is his account of homecoming.
Author | : Raja Shehadeh |
Publisher | : Steerforth |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 158642212X |
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The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened childred, ages four and six. This is an account of what it is like to be under seige: the terror, the frustrations, the humiliations, and the rage. How do you pass your time when you are imprisoned in your own home? What do you do when you cannot cross the neighborhood to help your sick mother? Shehadeh's recent memoir, Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine, was the first book by a Palestinian writer to chronicle a life of displacement on the West Bank from 1967 to the present. It received international acclaim and was a finalist for the 2002 Lionel Gelber Prize. When the Birds Stopped Singing is a book of the moment, a chronicle of life today as lived by ordinary Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza in the grip of the most stringent Israeli security measures in years. And yet it is also an enduring document, at once literary and of great political import, that should serve as a cautionary tale for today's and future generations.
Author | : Maya Abu Al-Hayat |
Publisher | : Comma Press |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2021-03-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1912697521 |
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A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself... A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must kiss a complete stranger if he wants the bus to be let through... A woman pilgrimages to the Cave of the Prophets, to pray for rain for her tiny patch of land, knowing it will take more than water to save it... Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace Accords, but just as quickly hemmed in and suffocated by the Occupation as the Accords have failed. Perched along the top of a mountainous ridge, it plays host to many contradictions: traditional Palestinian architecture jostling against aspirational developments and cultural initiatives, a thriving nightlife in one district, with much more conservative, religious attitudes in the next. Most striking however – as these stories show – is the quiet dignity, resilience and humour of its people; citizens who take their lives into their hands every time they travel from one place to the next, who continue to live through countless sieges, and yet still find the time, and resourcefulness, to create.
Author | : Ben Ehrenreich |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Arab-Israeli conflict |
ISBN | : 1594205906 |
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In West Bank cities and small villages alike, men and women, young and old--a group of unforgettable characters--share their lives with Ehrenreich and make their own case for resistance and resilience in the face of life under occupation. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, they are a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine.
Author | : Benny Morris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-05-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0857716530 |
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General Sir John Glubb, the last British pro-Consul in the region, could be seen as midwife to the birth of the modern Middle East - a birth as painful and tortuous as its subsequent history. Glubb Pasha was the British commander of the Arab Legion during those crucial years between 1936 and 1956 which were to witness the collapse of Palestine and the final foundation and establishment of the State of Israel. As well as analysing Glubb's personal vision of the Middle East and its peoples - a surprisingly racial vision that would condition his politics - this book examines his reactions to the Arab Revolt in Palestine and the periodic plans to partition Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state. It offers the first in-depth account of his thinking and actions during 1948, as he led his small army into Palestine and war against Israel. His aims and actions - which lie at the very heart of the controversy between 'Old' and 'New' historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict - are carefully detailed using, for the first time, contemporary British, Arab and Israeli intelligence sources. This masterful account of Glubb the soldier, strategist and pro-Arab mouth-piece, based on hitherto unseen classified documents, will become a vital addition to the literature on this defining period in Middle Eastern history. It is required reading for students, academics and anyone interested in the impasse which has dominated Middle Eastern affairs for over half a century. 'an intriguing and valuable contribution to the history of the 1948 conflict' - Times Literary Supplement This masterful account...will become a vital addition to the literature on this defining period in the Middle Eastern history" Fred Rhodes, Middle East Journal
Author | : Benjamin Z. Kedar |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814329153 |
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Originally published in Hebrew in 1991, The Changing Land presents a unique aerial view of the changes in Israel's topography from the second decade of the twentieth century to the present. Aerial photographs taken during World War I of Israel by German, British, and Australian aviators, showed the topography of a land fought over for many centuries. Having examined and identified the WWI photographs preserved in German, Australian, Israeli, and British public archives and German private collections, Benjamin Z. Kedar gathered 70 of the photographs to form the book's core. Kedar then collected color aerial photos taken between 1930 and 1990 of the same 70 sites. The result is an unusual and fascinating record of the physical changes in the region during this period of modernization and urban expansion. Changing the Land is more than a topographical view of Israel. Glimpses of the hills, valleys, towns, and villages of Israel provide the reader with a compelling history that words alone cannot describe. This book offers a complete portrait of Israel for anyone who has traveled to the Holy Land or has studied any of its inhabitants.