Palestinian Walks

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Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651291
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Palestinian Walks by : Raja Shehadeh

Download or read book Palestinian Walks written by Raja Shehadeh and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. This new edition includes a previously unpublished epigraph in the form of a walk. When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was travelling through a vanishing landscape. These hills would have seemed familiar to Christ, until the day concrete was poured over the flora and irreversible changes were brought about by those who claim a superior love of the land. Six walks span a period of twenty-six years, in the hills around Ramallah, in the Jerusalem wilderness and through the ravines by the Dead Sea. Each walk takes place at a different stage of Palestinian history since 1982, the first in the empty pristine hills and the last amongst the settlements and the wall. The reader senses the changing political atmosphere as well as the physical transformation of the landscape. By recording how the land felt and looked before these calamities, Raja Shehadeh attempts to preserve, at least in words, the Palestinian natural treasures that many Palestinians will never know.

Palestinian Walks

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416570098
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Palestinian Walks by : Raja Shehadeh

Download or read book Palestinian Walks written by Raja Shehadeh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —Jimmy Carter From one of Palestine’s leading writers, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man’s wanderings through the landscape he loves—once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls—updated with a new afterword by the author. “I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the man who was doing all the talking and seemed to be the commander. “In fact I was once here with my wife, it was 1999, and some of your soldiers shot at us.” “It was over on that side,” the soldier pointed out. “I was there,” he said, smiling. When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was traveling through a vanishing landscape. In recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth and ancient monasteries built more than a thousand years ago. Shehadeh's love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography. But latterly, as seemingly endless concrete is poured to build settlements and their surrounding walls, he finds the old trails are now impassable and the countryside he once traversed freely has become contested ground. He is harassed by Israeli border patrols, watches in terror as a young hiking companion picks up an unexploded missile and even, on one occasion when accompanied by his wife, comes under prolonged gunfire. Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh's elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor for the deprivations of an entire people estranged from their land.

The Landscape of Palestine

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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Landscape of Palestine by : Ibrahim A. Abu-Lughod

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Enclosure

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520964926
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Enclosure by : Gary Fields

Download or read book Enclosure written by Gary Fields and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their land—and Israel’s rationale for seizing control of Palestinian land—in the contexts of a broad historical analysis of power and space and of an enduring discourse about land improvement. Focusing on the English enclosures (which eradicated access to common land across the English countryside), Amerindian dispossession in colonial America, and Palestinian land loss, Fields shows how exclusionary landscapes have emerged across time and geography. Evidence that the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were used by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel’s current claim that it is uniquely beleaguered. This comparative framework also helps readers in the United States and the United Kingdom understand the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the context of their own histories.

Planted Flags

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521760027
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis Planted Flags by : Irus Braverman

Download or read book Planted Flags written by Irus Braverman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planted Flags tells an extraordinary story about the mundane uses of law and landscape in the war between Israelis and Palestinians. The book is structured around the two dominant tree landscapes in Israel/Palestine: pine forests and olive groves. The pine tree, which is usually associated with the Zionist project of afforesting the Promised Land, is contrasted with the olive tree, which Palestinians identify as a symbol of their steadfast connection to the land. What is it that makes these seemingly innocuous, even natural, acts of planting, cultivating, and uprooting trees into acts of war? How is this war reflected, mediated, and, above all, reinforced through the polarization of the natural landscape into two juxtaposed landscapes? And what is the role of law in this story? Planted Flags explores these questions through an ethnographic study. By telling the story of trees through the narratives of military and government officials, architects, lawyers, Palestinian and Israeli farmers, and Jewish settlers, the seemingly static and mute landscape assumes life, expressing the cultural, economic, and legal dynamics that constantly shape and reshape it.

Mandated Landscape

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135772398
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Book Synopsis Mandated Landscape by : Roza El-Eini

Download or read book Mandated Landscape written by Roza El-Eini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking authoritative study, a highly documented and incisive analysis is made of the galvanising changes wrought to the people and landscape of British Mandated Palestine (1929-1948). Using a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach, the book’s award-winning author examines how the British imposed their rule, dominated by the clashing dualities of their Mandate obligations towards the Arabs and the Jews, and their own interests. The rulers’ Empire-wide conceptions of the ‘White man’s burden’ and preconceptions of the Holy Land were potent forces of change, influencing their policies. Lucidly written, Mandated Landscape is also a rich source of information supported by numerous maps, tables and illustrations, and has 66 appendices, a considerable bibliography and extensive index. With a theoretical and historical backdrop, the ramifications of British rule are highlighted in their impact on town planning, agriculture, forestry, land, the partition plans and a case study, presenting discussions on such issues as development, ecological shock, law and the controversial division of village lands, as the British operated in a politically turbulent climate, often within their own administration. This book is a major contribution to research on British Palestine and will interest those in Middle East, history, geography, development and colonial/postcolonial studies.

Israel-Palestine

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800731302
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Book Synopsis Israel-Palestine by : Omer Bartov

Download or read book Israel-Palestine written by Omer Bartov and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly irreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape. Engaging the perspectives of a multidisciplinary, international group of scholars, it is an urgent collective reflection on the bonds between people and a place, whether real or imagined, tangible as its stones or ephemeral as the hopes and longings it evokes.

Subjective Atlas of Palestine

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Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9064506485
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)

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Book Synopsis Subjective Atlas of Palestine by : Annelys de Vet

Download or read book Subjective Atlas of Palestine written by Annelys de Vet and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country as they see it ... the contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory."--Back cover.

Healing the Land and the Nation

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226779386
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Healing the Land and the Nation by : Sandra M. Sufian

Download or read book Healing the Land and the Nation written by Sandra M. Sufian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, Healing the Land and the Nation traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held lands, Sandra Sufian illustrates how efforts to thwart the disease were intimately tied to the project of Zionist nation-building, especially the movement’s efforts to repurpose and improve its lands. The project of eradicating malaria also took on a metaphorical dimension—erasing anti-Semitic stereotypes of the “parasitic” Diaspora Jew and creating strong, healthy Jews in Palestine. Sufian shows that, in reclaiming the land and the health of its people in Palestine, Zionists expressed key ideological and political elements of their nation-building project. Taking its title from a Jewish public health mantra, Healing the Land and the Nation situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories. By analyzing the science alongside the politics of Jewish settlement, Sufian addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population in a decidedly innovative way. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the Middle East, Jewish studies, and environmental history, as well as to those studying colonialism, nationalism, and public health and medicine.

The Geography of Power

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Book Synopsis The Geography of Power by : Anne Gough

Download or read book The Geography of Power written by Anne Gough and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the broiling climate that is the landscape of Palestine-Israel the familiar discourse is one of international relations and political science. Concentrating on the primary political actors and their rhetorical game of ping-pong often ignores and is even irrelevant to the details of lived existence in the geography of the place. While data on the current environmental status is collected by Palestinian, Israeli and international NGOs, analysis of much depth is sadly lacking. Thus 70% of the United States cannot locate 0́−Israel0́+ on a map. U.S. based media sources tend to portray the conflict within a very tight scale. Close-up portraits of people in various states of anger or celebration often seem to exist in a context-less vacuum. Where are these people, in a city or a village or a refugee camp? Where do they live, how do they eat, where do their children play? More recently architects and scholars examining the role of infrastructure and planning in Israel0́9s occupation of Palestine have countered this economy of scale. They write about the Wall and the larger grid of control that involves roads, water wells, airspace, building permits, gates, checkpoints and travel documents. Quite tangibly the heart of the spiraling conflict is land, as the settlements cut swaths through the West Bank, eating up land in Areas A, B and C of the Oslo Accords. Palestinians live in an ever-shrinking 0́−Palestine0́+. By examining the case study of Oush Grab in Beit Sahour, located in the Bethlehem Governant, this paper is able to analyze the details of one landscape as it relates to the unexpectedly rich ecological history of Palestine. The specific story of Oush Grab opens the conversation to include Palestine in the frame of classical colonial occupations, decolonization and environmental justice. This paper seeks to explain and document the process of decolonization at Oush Grab, from military to public space. More exactly, is it possible to decolonize a colonial space while the colonial power is still in place? The findings of this paper were interrupted by the attempted settlement of Oush Grab by militant and privately armed Israeli settlers. The future of Oush Grab is unknown, but the findings in the paper can be valuable to the continuing struggle for public space in Palestine. If Oush Grab succeeds then the implication for other areas and for the environmental and public health of Beit Sahour are hopeful. If the settlers succeed and build an outpost in Beit Sahour then the implications of this paper cease to be relevant and one more hilltop will be decimated and destroyed beyond recognition. The access to these [public] places is what concretely defines the sense of people0́9s belonging to the collective ritual of inhabiting the common space of the city. - Berlage Institute (2008), p.35

A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)

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Book Synopsis A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine by : Yehoseph Schwarz

Download or read book A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine written by Yehoseph Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking Palestine

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ISBN 13 : 9781908493613
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking Palestine by : Stefan Szepesi

Download or read book Walking Palestine written by Stefan Szepesi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the images of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is the one activity probably least associated with the West Bank region. But Stefan Szepesi s book wanders well off the beaten track of Palestine as only a synonym for occupation and strife, exploring its inspiring natural and cultural landscape, its intriguing past and present, and the hospitality of its people. The book takes first-time walkers and experienced hikers, as well as armchair explorers, through Palestine's steep desert gorges, along its tiny herders trails and over its quiet dirt roads running past silver green olive groves. With side stories and anecdotes on heritage, history, culture and daily life in the West Bank, the book ventures into the traits and character of Palestine today. Beyond the 250 km of walking trails described and mapped in detail throughout the book, Walking Palestine offers a wealth of practical walking tips, including references to local guides, the West Bank s best leisure spots and countryside restaurants, and the most charming places to spend the night.

Historical and Descriptive Geography of Palestine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Book Synopsis Historical and Descriptive Geography of Palestine by : Joseph A. Meen

Download or read book Historical and Descriptive Geography of Palestine written by Joseph A. Meen and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The geography of Palestine

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Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis The geography of Palestine by : Walter McLeod

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Enclosure

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520291042
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis Enclosure by : Gary Fields

Download or read book Enclosure written by Gary Fields and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enclosure marshals bold new and persuasive arguments about the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, geographer Gary Fields sheds fresh light on Israel’s actions. He places those actions in historical context in a broad analysis of power and landscapes across the modern world. Examining the process of land-grabbing in early modern England, colonial North America, and contemporary Palestine, Enclosure shows how patterns of exclusion and privatization have emerged across time and geography. That the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were copied by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel’s current rationale as being uniquely beleaguered. It also helps readers in the United Kingdom and the United States understand the Israel-Palestine conflict in the context of their own, tortured histories.

Palestinian Cinema

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748634096
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Palestinian Cinema by : Nurith Gertz

Download or read book Palestinian Cinema written by Nurith Gertz and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although in recent years, the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian relationship, there are few truly reliable sources of information regarding Palestinian society and culture, either concerning its relationship with Israeli society, its position between east and west or its stances in times of war and peace. One of the best sources for understanding Palestinian culture is its cinema which has devoted itself to serving the national struggle. In this book, two scholars--an Israeli and a Palestinian--in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the development of Palestinian cinema, commenting on its response to political and social transformations. They discover that the more the social, political and economic conditions worsen and chaos and pain prevail, the more Palestinian cinema becomes involved with the national struggle. As expected, Palestinian cinema has unfolded its national narrative against the Israeli narrative, which tried to silence it.

Geography of Palestine; Historical and Descriptive

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Total Pages : 274 pages
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Book Synopsis Geography of Palestine; Historical and Descriptive by : Joseph A. Meen

Download or read book Geography of Palestine; Historical and Descriptive written by Joseph A. Meen and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: