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The Wandering Palestinian

Author : Anan Ameri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643971308
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Wandering Palestinian written by Anan Ameri and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Anan Ameri
Publisher : BHC Press
ISBN 13 : 1643971328
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Wandering Palestinian written by Anan Ameri and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 253 pages. 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.

Palestinian Identity

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231150750
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Identity written by Rashid Khalidi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of work originally published in 1997. New introduction by the author.

A Land of Stone and Thyme

Author : Nur Elmessiri
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A Land of Stone and Thyme written by Nur Elmessiri and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sleeping on a Wire

Author : David Grossman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804181
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sleeping on a Wire written by David Grossman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-04-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on conversations with Palestinians in Israel, David Grossman's Sleeping on a Wire, like The Yellow Wind, is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the Middle East today. Israel describes itself as a Jewish state. What, then, is the status of the one-fifth of its citizens who are not Jewish? Are they Israelis, or are they Palestinians? Or are they a people without a country? How will a Palestinian state—if it is established—influence the sense of belonging and identity of Palestinian Israeli citizens? "No other Israeli writer so far has approached this touchy subject with such compassion, or looked at it with, so to speak, bifocal eyes, Israeli and Palestinian." --Amos Elon, The New York Review of Books

Palestine Speaks

Author : Cate Malek
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 1940450705
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Palestine Speaks written by Cate Malek and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon runner—describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the historic crisis. Other narrators include: ABEER, a young journalist from Gaza City who launched her career by covering bombing raids on the Gaza Strip. IBTISAM, the director of a multi-faith children’s center in the West Bank whose dream of starting a similar center in Gaza has so far been hindered by border closures. GHASSAN, an Arab-Christian physics professor and activist from Bethlehem who co-founded the International Solidarity Movement.

The Innocents Abroad

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846051764
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents Abroad written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Palestine in Pieces

Author : Kathleen Christison
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Palestine in Pieces written by Kathleen Christison and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.

Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual

Author : Zeina G. Halabi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474421407
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual written by Zeina G. Halabi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. --

Mapping My Return

Author : Salman Abu Sitta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774167309
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Mapping My Return written by Salman Abu Sitta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugees, Palestinian Arab; biography.

Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity

Author : M. Litvak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230621635
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity written by M. Litvak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the evolution and cultivation of modern Palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping Palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 Palestinian elections.

American Palestine

Author : Hilton Obenzinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216320
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book American Palestine written by Hilton Obenzinger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rifqa

Author : Mohammed El-Kurd
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642596833
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Rifqa written by Mohammed El-Kurd and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature. The book narrates the author’s own experience of dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah--an infamous neighborhood in Jerusalem, Palestine, whose population of refugees continues to live on the brink of homelessness at the hands of the Israeli government and US-based settler organizations. The book, named after the author’s late grandmother who was forced to flee from Haifa upon the genocidal establishment of Israel, makes the observation that home takeovers and demolitions across historical Palestine are not reminiscent of 1948 Nakba, but are in fact a continuation of it: a legalized, ideologically-driven practice of ethnic cleansing.

Palestinian Walks

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

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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.

Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing

Author : Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319914154
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Exile and Expatriation in Modern American and Palestinian Writing written by Ahmad Rasmi Qabaha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing. It argues that exile, in the Palestinian case especially, is a political catastrophe; it is banishment by a colonial power. It suggests that, unlike expatriation (a choice of a foreign land over one’s own), exile is a political rather than an artistic concept and is forced rather than voluntary — while exile can be emancipatory, it is always an unwelcome loss. In addition to its historical dimension, exile also entails a different perception of return to expatriation. This book frames expatriates as quintessentially American, particularly intellectuals and artists seeking a space of creativity and social dissidence in the experience of living away from home. At the heart of both literary discourses, however, is a preoccupation with home, belonging, identity, language, mobility and homecoming.

The Palestinian Diaspora

Author : Helena Lindholm Schulz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134496699
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Palestinian Diaspora written by Helena Lindholm Schulz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Does the Land Remember Me?

Author : Aziz Shihab
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081565054X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Does the Land Remember Me? written by Aziz Shihab and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 178 pages. 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.