The Road To Ramallah

Author : Mourid Barghouti
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307486141

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I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti Pdf

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 : Alan W. Horton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578162706

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The Road to Ramallah by Alan W. Horton Pdf

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 : Guy Mannes-Abbott,Samar Martha
Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1907317678

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In Ramallah, Running by Guy Mannes-Abbott,Samar Martha Pdf

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
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poets, Palestinian Arab
ISBN : 0747569274

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I Saw Ramallah by Murīd Barghūthī Pdf

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 : Amira Hass
Publisher : Semiotext(e)
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058209399

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Reporting from Ramallah by Amira Hass Pdf

Israeli journalist Amira Hass chronicles the experiences she had while living in Ramallah.

Author : Raja Shehadeh
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781586422127

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When the Birds Stopped Singing by Raja Shehadeh Pdf

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,Liana Badr,Anas Abu Rahma,Ahlam Bsharat,Ameer Hamad,Khaled Hourani,Ahmad Jaber,Ziad Khadash,Ibrahim Nasrallah,Mahmoud Shukair
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697526

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The Book of Ramallah by Maya Abu Al-Hayat,Liana Badr,Anas Abu Rahma,Ahlam Bsharat,Ameer Hamad,Khaled Hourani,Ahmad Jaber,Ziad Khadash,Ibrahim Nasrallah,Mahmoud Shukair Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134172177

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The West Bank and Gaza Strip by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mourid Barghouti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802743527

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I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mourid Barghouti Pdf

In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time since his exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In 2003 he returned to Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim Barghouti, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, within a year Tamim himself had been arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq War and found himself not only in the same Cairo prison from which his father had been expelled from Egypt when Tamim was a baby, but in the very same cell. I Was Born There, I was Born Here traces Barghouti's own life in recent years and in the past - early life in Palestine, expulsion from Cairo, exile to Budapest, marriage to one of Egypt's leading writers and critics (Radwa Ashour), the birth of his son, Tamim, and then the young man's own expulsion from Cairo. Ranging freely back and forth in time, Barghouti weaves into his account poignant evocations of Palestinian history and daily life. His evocative, composed prose, beautifully rendered in Humphrey Davies' precise and sensitive translation, leads to the surprisingly candid condemnation of the Palestinian authority's leading figures and the astonishing verdict that 'The real disaster that the Palestinians are living through these days is that they've fallen under the control of a bunch of school kids with no teacher.' Beautifully rendered by the prize-winning translator Humphrey Davies, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, is destined, like its predecessor, to become a classic.

Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0814329152

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The Changing Land by Benjamin Z. Kedar Pdf

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.

Author : Elisha Efrat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134172160

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The West Bank and Gaza Strip by Elisha Efrat Pdf

Written in a clear and easy-to-follow style, this revealing text examines the contemporary political geography of the West Bank and Gaza strip. Descriptive in nature, it documents the changes and developments since 1967 right up to the disengagement from Gaza. The book is supplemented by numerous maps and covers issues including demography, Jewish settlements, water and natural resources, transport infrastructure, planning, partition plans for Jerusalem, settlement policy and the Separation Fence. One of the first books to tackle this contentious subject from a geographical rather than a political or historical perspective, The West Bank and Gaza Strip will be of huge interest to both undergraduate and graduate students studying the Israel-Palestine question.

Author : Stefan Szepsi
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781623710040

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Walking Palestine by Stefan Szepsi Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780816627646

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Palestine and Jewish History by Jonathan Boyarin Pdf

This book enacts rather than reports on Boyarin's process or error, pain, impatience, uncertainty, discovery, embarrassment, self-criticism, intellectual struggle, and dawning awareness, challenging and engaging us in the process of discovery.

Author : Anis F. Kassim
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041103147

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The Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 1995 by Anis F. Kassim Pdf

A well-established yearbook, "The Palestine Yearbook of" "International Law" is widely respected as a prime source of legal material relating to Palestinian issues. It provides an important forum on topical matters relating to Palestine for the international legal community, particularly for legal practitioners, researchers and scholars. In addition to leading articles on current matters of interest, it contains key legislation, court decisions, and other relevant legal material translated from the original Arabic or Hebrew into English. This eighth volume of "The Palestine Yearbook of International Law" contains: leading articles on Palestinian self-government, legal aspects of the Palestinian/Israeli peace process, and the problems of water management in Palestine; the texts of Palestinian, Jordanian, Israeli and U.S. legislation and of various Agreements concluded between the Palestinian National Authority and both Jordan or Israel; the texts of human rights reports; a selection of recent book reviews; and a detailed bibliography. The level of activity in this field and its importance and complexity make "The Palestine Yearbook of International Law" an important component in any international law library, allowing practitioners and academics to maintain awareness of these critical issues.

Author : Milan Kubic
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609092238

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From Prague to Jerusalem by Milan Kubic Pdf

After spending his childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and witnessing the Communist takeover of his country in 1948, a young journalist named Milan Kubic embarked on a career as a Newsweek correspondent that spanned thirty-one years and three continents, reporting on some of the most memorable events in the Middle East. Now, Kubic tells this fascinating story in depth. Kubic describes his escape to the US Zone in West Germany, his life in the Displaced Persons camps, and his arrival in 1950s America, where he worked as a butler and factory worker and served in a US Army intelligence unit during Senator Joe McCarthy's witch-hunting years. Hired by Newsweek after graduating from journalism school, Kubic covered the White House during the last year of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the US Senate run by Lyndon Johnson, and the campaign that elected President John F. Kennedy. Kubic spent twenty-six years reporting from abroad, including South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Eastern and Western Europe. Of particular interest is his account of the seventeen years—starting with the Six Day War in 1967—when he watched the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Beirut and Jerusalem. In From Prague to Jerusalem, readers will meet the principal Israeli participants in the Irangate affair, accompany Kubic on his South American tour with Bobby Kennedy, take part in his jungle encounter with the king of Belgium, witness the inglorious end of Timothy Leary's flight to the Middle East, and observe the debunking of Hitler's bogus diaries. This riveting memoir will appeal to general readers and scholars interested in journalism, the Middle East, and US history and politics.