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The Wandering Palestinian
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Author : Anan Ameri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-10
The Wandering Palestinian written by Anan Ameri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-10 with categories.
The Wandering Palestinian is comprised of twenty-eights vignettes, rooted in the Arab tradition of story telling. It starts in 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon, where at age twenty-nine, Ameri, a free spirited urban middle class professional woman, met and fell in love with a US citizen, and followed him to Detroit. Without speaking English, knowing how to drive, or having a permit to work, and without family or friends, life in Detroit, a city still marked by the scars of the 1967 rebellion, was rather difficult. Ameri felt uprooted and isolated as well as stripped of her identity and independence. Armed with resilience and determination, the author found comfort in becoming involved with the Detroit's large and politically active Arab American community. An involvement that helped her break away from her isolation, resume her activism, and pave the way for her o become a recognized and respected leader in her community. The vignettes of Wandering Palestinian are both humorous and poignant. With a keen eye of a trained sociologist, the book gives an insight into the Arab American communities struggles, hopes, and aspirations to find their rightful place in the American mosaic. These are also personal stories of love and a failed marriage, struggle with depression and therapy, as well as activism that took the Ameri to live in Washington DC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Jerusalem. Then back to Detroit to be with her newly found love, and a new career that led her to play a pivotal role in the creation of the Arab American National Museum in 2005. As the stories of this book reveal, Ameris personal, social, and political experiences are very much intertwined with that of the Palestinian and Arab American communities. It's her aspiration that these stories will provide the readers a window to the many challenges immigrants face, and to their contributions and triumphs; and would hopefully encourage other activists, especially women, to narrate their own stories.
The Wandering Palestinian
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Author : Anan Ameri
language : en
Publisher: BHC Press
Release Date : 2020-11-19
The Wandering Palestinian written by Anan Ameri and has been published by BHC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Mapping My Return
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Author : Salman H. Abu-Sitta
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Mapping My Return written by Salman H. Abu-Sitta and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Behind The Wall
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Author : Rich Wiles
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-02-28
Behind The Wall written by Rich Wiles and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-28 with Political Science categories.
Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Having been forced from their homes, either through violence or the threat of it, those living in these camps, Rich Wiles asserts, suffer greatly from Israeli Army incursions, violence, poverty, and desperation—often even more severely than in the surrounding cities or villages. Although much media attention has been drawn to the area's political climate, the stories of its dispossessed people have gone largely underreported. Having spent much of his time in Palestine since 2003, Wiles offers a glimpse inside the West Bank's refugee camps between 2006 and 2007 through a collection of oral histories, vignettes, and photographic portraits. In these pieces, Wiles recounts conversations with Palestinians of all ages, including survivors of al-Nakba, released child and female prisoners, parents trying to rear their children amid the violence of military occupation, and exiles struggling for the right of return to their original villages. These intimate portrayals not only offer clues to understanding the physical and psychological effects of exile, colonization, and occupation, they also reveal the true Palestinian psyche, one that is at once full of life, love, and strength. Through both written word and photographic image, Behind the Wall allows Palestinians to speak for themselves.
Palestinian Refugees
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Author : Robert Bowker
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 2003
Palestinian Refugees written by Robert Bowker and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Arab-Israeli conflict categories.
Encompassing history, politics, and political culture, Bowker grapples with fundamental issues of Palestinian identity in the context of the peace process.
Does The Land Remember Me
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Author : Aziz Shihab
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-23
Does The Land Remember Me written by Aziz Shihab and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Palestinian Refugees
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Author : J. Ginat
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2001
The Palestinian Refugees written by J. Ginat and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
As violence escalates in the Middle East, a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine seems more elusive than ever. Yet one thing remains clear: without constructive dialogue such an agreement cannot occur. This timely volume presents just such a dialogue. It brings together opinions, perspectives, and research focused on one of the region’s most complex and volatile problems: the Palestinian refugee situation. Based on a 1999 conference at the University of Oklahoma International Program Center, Palestinian Refugees combines contributions from Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians, Americans, and Europeans. In addition to focusing on the Palestinian refugees, the essays present various proposals for solving the Palestinian problem. Organized in two parts, the volume presents both scholarly essays and position papers. The scholarly essays place current issues in historical context and explore the Palestinian belief in the "right of return" and questions of appropriate compensation. The position papers focus on policy and offer a variety of perspectives. Concluding the volume is a special essay on public polls that gauge how Palestinians and Israelis view the circumstances of Palestinian refugees and what they feel about possible solutions.
Return
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Author : Ghada Karmi
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2015-05-19
Return written by Ghada Karmi and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with History categories.
"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.
American Palestine
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Author : Hilton Obenzinger
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-21
American Palestine written by Hilton Obenzinger and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the nineteenth century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers, and artists flocked to Palestine as part of a "Holy Land mania." Many saw America as a New Israel, a modern nation chosen to do God's work on Earth, and produced a rich variety of inspirational art and literature about their travels in the original promised land, which was then part of Ottoman-controlled Palestine. In American Palestine, Hilton Obenzinger explores two "infidel texts" in this tradition: Herman Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1876) and Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress (1869). As he shows, these works undermined in very different ways conventional assumptions about America's divine mission. In the darkly philosophical Clarel, Melville found echoes of Palestine's apparent desolation and ruin in his own spiritual doubts and in America's materialism and corruption. Twain's satiric travelogue, by contrast, mocked the romantic naiveté of Americans abroad, noting the incongruity of a "fantastic mob" of "Yanks" in the Holy Land and contrasting their exalted notions of Palestine with its prosaic reality. Obenzinger demonstrates, however, that Melville and Twain nevertheless shared many colonialist and orientalist assumptions of the day, revealed most clearly in their ideas about Arabs, Jews, and Native Americans. Combining keen literary and historical insights and careful attention to the context of other American writings about Palestine, this book throws new light on the construction of American identity in the nineteenth century.
No Place To Call Home
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Author : Thuraya Ahmad Hasan Ghannam
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-02-05
No Place To Call Home written by Thuraya Ahmad Hasan Ghannam and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A story of resilience and hopethe life of a simple Palestinian girl who survived five wars, countless refugee camps, raised thirteen children, and now shares both her suffering and wisdom.
